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Adventures in the Screen Trade
Adventures in the Screen Trade
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Author: William Goldman Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Format: Softcover # of Pages: 594 Pub. Date: 1983 ISBN-10: 0446391174 ISBN-13: 9780446391177
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About the Book:
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman.
The two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, William Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums: on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films; into the plush offices of Hollywood producers; into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman; and into his own professional experiences and creative thought processes in the crafting of screenplays.
Subtitled A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting, you get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay.
What people say:
"One third of the book talks about the roles of Hollywood film-making: how a film is affected by the star, the producer, the writer, and the other players. The next third tells the story of each film in Goldman's life; the final third takes you step-by-step through the making of Butch Cassidy, including a presentation of the full screenplay. This is a book of gossip with heart, gossip specifically chosen to enlighten you (and, it's pretty clear, to help Goldman himself work out his feelings about this business)." — Whole Earth Review
"Fascinating… Goldman's candor here is both amusing and moving. His book is surprising, refreshing and informative. I cannot recommend it too highly." — Chicago Sun-Times
"A celebration and a sharp analysis of the screenwriter's art… gossipy enough to enchant the customers in the balcony, but it is also authoritative and outspoken." — Los Angeles Times
"A nuts and bolts account — shrewd, practical, economical…. We feel we have got the hang of the trade." — The New York Times
About the Author:
William Goldman is an American novelist, playwright and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Goldman had published five novels and had three plays produced on Broadway before he began to write screenplays.
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