Some screenplays just feel like novels. The protagonist has a life with ups and downs, personality changes and long strange trips it's beens. These are lives that take hundreds of pages to live. I suspect that the most "full lives" on screen are biopics based on real life or drawn from novels.
Stan Carlisle in Nightmare Alley is one of those "full lives." Not surprising its author had a crazy ride as well.
Rating: 8 out of 10
Recommended also: OK, lemme do the research and go straight down my favorites list for films dominated by the twists and many turns of a protagonist's life, taking the first ten:
Citizen Kane = based on real life
Amadeus = based on real life (stretch?)
Boogie Nights = original work
Days of Wine and Roses = original work
A Clockwork Orange = novel
Lawrence of Arabia = based on real life
The Color Purple = novel
Persepolis = based on real life
Field of Dreams = novel
The Man Who Fell to Earth = novel
Congratulations to Paul Thomas Anderson and JP Miller for creating the exceptions.
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