Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
In 1983 William Goldman’s Adventures in the Screen Trade first hit the bookstores and ever since it has become a handbook for Hollywood screenwriters or anyone trying to understand the movie business. The book explores Goldman’s amazing career as novelist and screenwriter while exposing the Hollywood movie-making machine. Read the rest of this entry »
Using Myth to Power Your Story
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This delightful workshop covers how you can use the myths and fairytales that link us all to give your story more oomph. Get ready to laugh while you learn because the speaker is a natural storyteller and a witty observer of life. Whether you’re creating a screenplay, a novel, a play, a computer game, a puppet show or just an entry in your journal, your story will be richer, Read the rest of this entry »
The Screenwriter Within : How to Turn the Movie in Your Head into a Salable Screenplay
Book Description
If you’ve ever dreamed of writing a screenplay, The Screenwriter Within is the book for you. Insightful, inspirational, and wildly irreverent, it takes you through all the stages of the writing process, using references to hit movies and the author’s personal experience to show you how to:
Making a Good Writer Great: a Creativity Workbooks for Screenwriters
Book Description
In any creative endeavor, a knowledge of craft by itself, no matter how sound or thorough, is simply not sufficient to allow for the creation and growth of truly original work. While craft may provide structural tools, it does not address the most basic and universal element of all artistic work-the creative process.
Magnolia : The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script Series Book)
At three hours long, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia qualifies as an epic, with a broad scope of characters whose lives become entwined over the course of a day in the San Fernando Valley. Despite its vast canvas, though, this is probably one of the most intimate epics you’ll ever experience, because Anderson and his cast [...]
How Not to Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make
How Not to Write a Screenplay is an invaluable addition to any aspiring screenwriter’s shelf–and you’d best make the shelf within arm’s reach of the computer. Author Dean Martin Flinn, an experienced script reader, details the common rookie mistakes that drive script readers crazy. Flinn makes no pretense of being able to teach anyone how [...]
American Beauty: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Scripts)
“I read the screenplay and nearly fell out of bed. I thought I better meet him quick before someone else read it.”–Kevin Spacey
Actors and critics alike have praised Alan Ball’s first feature film screenplay, which tells the off-kilter story of a midlife crisis suffered by Lester Burnham (played by Spacey). For fans of the film’s [...]
Limb’ flops, hurting the actors
John Hartl
Director–Francis Veber
Starring- Jeffrey Jones, Matthew Broderick
The generally astute Matthew Broderick has made a few poor career moves, but Out on a Limb is a lulu.Originally called Welcome to Buzz saw - which makes more sense than this generic title, which instantly recalls Shirley McLain’s mid-1980s bestseller and mini-series - it’s a laborious comedy [...]
Hello, Mary Jo
It comes as no surprise to learn that the film Tumbleweeds started out as a memoir (by Angela Shelton, who co-wrote the screenplay with the film’s director, Gavin O’Connor). The movie has a confident, unrushed quality to it, a complete faith in its characters that gives it a reflective but gently comedic mood. And at [...]
Not Even Pretty
Pretty Woman was a bit of romantic fluff that caught everyone off guard when it became a huge box-office hit. It made Julia Roberts a superstar, added luster to the groundless myth that Richard Gere was sexy and — according to detractors — made prostitution a wacky, harmless little plot-twist in its contemporary re-telling of [...]
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