The Grapes of Wrath - Using Empathy and Structure to Narrativize a Tragedy (WGA's best screenplays #98)
The Grapes of Wrath tells the tragedy of a generation through one family. How does it achieve that? And what makes the character of Ma Joad so likeable and moving?
The Wild Bunch - How To Reinvent a Genre By Attacking its Values (WGA's best screenplays #99)
Some of the most memorable films are successful because they managed to flip their genre on its head. THE WILD BUNCH achieved this by attacking the assumed values of the western, creating a western unlike any one before.