Adventures In The Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood

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Goldman is one of the best storytellers this country has produced, which may seem a bold claim to some, but it happens to be true. His most famous axiom, that “nobody knows anything” is one of those things that grow truer with time and experience. Goldman was referring to success in the movie business, the idea being that when something worked and was a hit, it just kind of worked and nobody really knew why, though everyone with a hand in the production would claim otherwise. WOW! Bill’s friends dump all over him - and they are absolutely right! I wish I had friends that honest!

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What’s fascinating about the criticisms of the script - which I saw no problem with on first reading - is not just how correct they are about the holes in the script, but about the details that they red flag are minute (my-noot?). The little details are what completely blows the whole premise out of the water! A particular pleasure was the story of how ‘The Princess Bride’ got written and the movie got maid, involving Richard Lester of ‘Three Musketeers’ fame (and deservedly so). Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-10-12 05:05:03 Boxid IA40258220 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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In this sequel to screenwriter William Goldman's first memoir, "Adventures In The Screen Trade", basically carrying his memoirs forward to the time period 1980-2000, Goldman captures the appeal and basic readability and charm of volume one. I think it's marginally inferior to its first book, but it's still very good. I don’t know if the script will be done by the end of the book — and I seriously doubt it — that’s kind of the point! His tomes Adventures In The Screen Trade and Which Lie Did I Tell? remain at the top of the list in the screenwriting how-to space, and he popularized the so-simple-but-couldn't-be-more-true line that in Hollywood, "nobody knows anything."

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In "Part Three: Da Vinci", Goldman shows the reader how he would go about adapting his own short story "Da Vinci" into a screenplay. The full text of "Da Vinci" and the subsequent screenplay that he wrote are included, followed by interviews with key movie industry figures, including director George Roy Hill, cinematographer Gordon Willis, and composer Dave Grusin.If the beginning of the book is like a casual conversation over a cup of coffee, the final third of the book is like he turned to you and said, ‘You know what? I like you. Drop by my office tomorrow, and I’ll show you how the work gets done.’ Full Book Name: Adventures In The Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood by Goldman, William 2Rev Edition (1996) William Goldman had published five novels and had three plays produced on Broadway before he began to write screenplays. Several of his novels he later used as the foundation for his screenplays.

Adventures In The Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood Adventures In The Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood

Part One: Hollywood Realities—Goldman's scathing take on the stars, studio executives, directors, agents, and producers of Hollywood. Goldman won two Academy Awards: an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for All the President's Men. He also won two Edgar Awards, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Motion Picture Screenplay: for Harper in 1967, and for Magic (adapted from his own 1976 novel) in 1979. It’s what REALLY happens in a writer’s mind - I want this image and this image and I know there’s got to be this scene - but it’s all as vague and unstructured as it is in real life. The book is divided into three parts. "Part One: Hollywood Realities" is a collection of essays on various subjects ranging from movie stars and studio executives to his thoughts on how to begin and end a screenplay and how to write for a movie star. I glanced inside the cover. I knew that there would be interesting tidbits about the writing of The Princess Bride , both the movies and the book. Also discussed is one of my favorite horror films of all time, "Misery." And there's that quality I associate with the name (yes, even "The Stepford Wives" I liked).I’ve written this before and please tattoo it behind your eyeballs: we are all at one another’s mercy…” There is no ‘right’ answer except the one that you feel makes it ‘play’. Makes it ‘work’ as a movie! “(I am smiling as I wrote that last sentence because you probably think I know how [the scene should go from here]. And the truth is: not a clue.)” By far my favorite part in the book is Part Two. Nothing is more entertaining than reading about Bill Goldman in the trenches, trying his best to ensure that a movie he's working on will actually get finished. More often than not he succeeds, but sometimes insurmountable obstacles make failure a certainty.

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I’m starting to see a pattern. If I really like a book, I don’t bother writing notes about it cause I just like to read it. Goldman has a gift for writing amiable anecdotes about Hollywood. They read very conversational and fun to read, and are aided by Goldman's insight into historically significant figures from film and stuff. It's so interesting to see insights into Michael Douglas' skills as a producer, or Clint Eastwood's stiff cool as a director, and numerous other examples. This is really the most badass thing I’ve ever read in a script writing book (and I’ve read a few).

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Whether you're interested in specific films, an insider's look at Hollywood, or simply care about engagingly told anecdotes, you'll find something interesting here. I particularly recommend it for new writers--not just of screenplays, but any type of writing--who may need encouragement or just a sense of fellow-feeling, because Goldman failed at his college writing classes and sent out hundreds of queries before selling his first novel and felt about as much of a failure as it's possible to be. While I wouldn't want to take his path, his experience reveals the commonalities all writers share. Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9790 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-2000073 Openlibrary_edition