Introduction: Taking note -- An origins story : Claire, Nina, Marshall, and the AFI, 1975 -- The learn-as-you-earn school of filmmaking : Family, 1978-1980 -- The year of loving dangerously : Special Bulletin and thirtysomething, 1982-1991 -- The anxiety of influence : Drawing Fire and About Last Night, 1985-1986 -- In search of glory : Glory, 1989 -- The nobility of failure : Leaving Normal, 1991 -- Julia, Harvey, and the bard : Shakespeare in Love, 1991-1998 -- The griefs of a man's life : Legends of the Fall and My So-Called Life, 1993-1994 -- Heroes : Courage Under Fire, 1996 -- Politics, pop culture, and pyrrhic victory : The Siege, 1998 -- A war won and lost : Traffic, 2000 -- If at first : Once and Again, 2000 -- Gaijin : The Last Samurai, 2003 -- The child is the jewel : Blood Diamond, 2006 -- Shadows of valiant ancestors : Defiance, 2008 -- In sickness and in health : Love & Other Drugs, 2010 -- Onward : Pawn Sacrifice, Jack Reacher, Trial by Fire, 2012-2020.