I really liked The Card Counter and did not mind Tiffany in it. I did really enjoy the article you posted on Schrader. 

In terms of the difference between older writers and writers now, well, I think that writers often reflect their time. Since last posting about this, I saw another article about Schrader and Master Gardener. Basically, it was an article trashing Schrader. This did not read like a critique of the film but more like the guy had a vendetta against Paul Schrader. It was a ridiculous article but perhaps Schrader pissed the guy off at some point, which based on the way this guy wrote...he probably deserved. 

I don't know about younger writers. They may have a much more vigorous self-censoring device built into them due to the time they live in. The difference to me with a Paul Schrader and, I don't know, any number of younger writers that compose screenplays today is Schrader is writing about something and using life experiences to inform the writing. He is getting under the hood and writing about something really from and about life. He can dress it up in all kinds of ways through his talent, but there is a there, there. There seems to be a lot of people now that just write their movie not based on anything in life but based on movies they watched. Which can be fun and entertaining but also, in the end, it's bullshit. I mean, I enjoy a Tarantino film, but I also recognize it is bullshit. He can't and does not write like any of the great "older" writers. He writes movie scenes about movie scenes. Fun, but let's face it, it's bullshit. Tarantino is 60 and a lot of the screenwriters younger than him worship what he does. Plus a lot of movies now really are about other movies, because they just want to recreate whatever worked or whatever they liked from another film. 

Tarantino is such a movie nerd, he has a blast rewriting scenes from other movies that it ends up being fun but the thing is, most of the other writers that attempt that are just not as good at it. 

I think as we've discussed AI here and how that impacts things, with art, yeah, it could become a thing where when Stephen King is dead, they can just have AI write another 40 Stephen King novels. Keep releasing them under the banner of Stephen King. 

Someone asked Tom Hanks who would play him in a biopic about him when he is gone and he said, not really joking, "Well, I guess I would through AI. My image and performance will still belong to the Hanks family and just be licensed out for future films."

I think I read at one point someone was screwing around with making a brand new film starring Brando and James Dean using AI. They did bring Peter Cushing back from the dead for a Star Wars film.