Adventures in the screen trade : a personal view of Hollywood and screenwriting / William Goldman.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Warner Books, ©1983.Description: xiii, 418 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0446512737
- 9780446512732
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 384.8097 G619 | Available | 33111009159043 |
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No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man , Tinsel , Boys and Girls Together , and other novels, 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. You get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, "You'll be fascinated.
Includes index.
Includes an idea-to-film production case study of his short story, Da Vinci.
Part One: Hollywood realities -- 1. The powers that be -- Stars -- Studio executives -- Directors -- Producers -- 2. Elements -- L.A. -- Agents -- Bread -- Meetings -- Auteurs -- Beginnings -- Endings -- Speed -- Subtext -- Protecting the star -- Believing reality -- Enduring -- The ecology of Hollywood (or, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Gunga Din) -- Part Two: Adventures -- 3. Charly and Masquerade -- 4. Harper -- 5. The thing of it is ... -- 6. The Stepford Wives -- 7. The Great Waldo Pepper -- 8. All the president's men -- 9. Marathon man -- 10. The right stuff -- 11. Grand Hotel -- 12. A bridge too far -- Part Three: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- 13. Butch -- 14. "Camera crap" -- 15. The screenplay -- 16. The weaknesses of the screenplay -- 17. The strengths of the screenplay -- Part Four: Da Vince -- 18. The short story -- 19. Before we begin writing -- 20. The screenplay -- 21. Interviews: Tony Walton, Gordon Willis, Dede Allen, David Grusin, George Roy Hill -- 22. The relay race -- Final fade-in.
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, 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. You get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay.