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Roger Avary

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Screenwriter

The Resume

    (August 23, 1965- )
    Born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
    Wrote or co-wrote screenplays for 'Resevoir Dogs' (1992), 'True Romance' (1993), 'Pulp Fiction' (1994), 'Silent Hill' (2006) and 'Beowulf' (2007)
    Wrote and directed 'Killing Zoe' (1994) and 'The Rules of Attraction' (2002)

Why he might be annoying:

    Depending on which source you believe, his birth name is either Roger d'Avary or Franklin Brauner.
    He complained about former collaborator Quentin Tarantino, 'I've realized I can't hang out with him. I talk with him, and he just sucks stuff from me.'
    In his acceptance speech after winning the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for 'Pulp Fiction,' he announced, 'I really have to take a pee right now.'
    He is a vegetarian.
    He killed his passenger in a DWI accident (January 13, 2008) and was charged with vehicular manslaughter.
    While serving time, he tweeted about heroin smuggling, lockdowns and strip searches in prison, even though he had been sentenced to a work furlough program and had spent a grand total of 11 minutes in jail.
    When the tweets became public, he was sent to the Ventura County Jail to serve out the rest of his sentence (November, 2009).
    He then tweeted, '#34 is 'rolled up' to a higher security facility for exercising his first amendment rights. The truth he has discovered is too dangerous.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He and Tarantino met while working together as video store clerks.
    He did not get screen credit for his contributions to 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'True Romance.'
    He wrote the screenplay for 'Killing Zoe' in ten days after producer Lawrence Bender said he needed a story set entirely in a bank to take advantage of a cheap location he had found.
    His 'Rules of Attraction' was the first major studio release to be edited using Apple's Final Cut Pro system.
    The opening of 'The Rules of Attraction' features an in-joke about 'Killing Zoe' being 'wrongfully considered a Quention Tarantino film.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 9 Votes: 22.22% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 15 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 21 Votes: 57.14% Annoying