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Adventures in the Screen Trade
Adventures in the Screen Trade | William Goldman
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Now available as an ebook for the first time! 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.
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CaramelLunacy
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Mehso-so

A memoir written in 1982 about screenwriting and movie production. A large chunk of it still feels very relevant (studios want to make sequels because they are a given and don't want to take risks - and nobody knows what movies the public will want), but a lot of the specifics are about movies I'm not familiar with or didn't like.
The section at the end about adapting his short story was interesting though I disagreed with him about a ton.

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TheKidUpstairs
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1. The Princess Bride. I love love love the movie, love the book, love Goldman's non-fiction about his work in Hollywood that talks about the creation (tagged), love everything.

2. I think, in the right hands, Hamnet would make a beautiful film.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

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andrew61
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#maybookflowers #Hollywood
One is a classic crime story of Hollywood and the other is a book ive retained in my collection because it was such a good tale of Hollywood and screenwriting.

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GoneFishing

NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING. Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work.

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