Adventures In The Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood

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Adventures in the Screen Trade is a book about Hollywood written in 1983 by American novelist and screenwriter William Goldman. The title is a pun on Dylan Thomas's Adventures in the Skin Trade. urn:lcp:adventuresinscre0000gold_y9m1:epub:7749688e-6936-4d5f-8588-dc0fad0845b2 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier adventuresinscre0000gold_y9m1 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9p39g71b Invoice 1652 Isbn 0446512737 Lccn 82017602 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-beta-20210815 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9732 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1200071 Openlibrary_edition

Adventures In The Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood

You may even consider it predictable, but that’s a subjective view that you can only have AFTER READING THE SCRIPT. And you can always rewrite it to change it. When discussing Butch Cassidy, Goldman humbly suggests that he's not that skilled at comedy. I disagree. In all of Goldman's movies, his humor—and his humanity—shines through, even in deadly serious movies such as All the President's Men. BTW, I was saddened to learn in this book that Goldman regrets his involvement with All the President's Men, for which he won his second Academy Award for adapted screenplay in 1977. Part Three: Da Vinci—A screenwriting workshop that takes one of Goldman's early short stories, adapts it into a screen treatment, and then runs it by colleagues on their thoughts on taking the script to production. Goldman has many funny stories to tell about Hollywood insiders and a lot of the silliness that is present in the industry. Although he himself is a bona fide insider, it's clear that he holds Hollywood at arms'-length and doesn't take it or himself too seriously, which allows him to be free and candid with his observations. Time has passed and my memory blurs some of the two books together. The 'Butch Cassidy' parts were from the first book, The Princess Bride novel for 'Adventures' and the screenplay for 'Lie', A Bridge Too Far for 'Screentrade' (I've never seen the movie)... I've already reviewed 'Adventures' so I'll just include the rest of my thoughts for this book. (These are not well known books on gr, I've gathered.) How Goldman came up with the ideas for scripts from real events such as Butch Cassidy, the homosexual maneating lions from The Ghost and the Darkness (Michael Douglas would probably be one of the people pissed off by Goldman's book. Boy, does he ever come across as a douche bag), and set down to adapting them for the screen made me think about other stories based on real events, the choices the authors make, relying or not on just what actually happened, finding what was interesting about it in the first place (the Tsavo lions, for example. That wasn't natural, happens every day lion behavior). Choosing which aspect to focus on a story out of a big picture like with the 'Bridge' screenplay. These are all things that anyone wishing to write a story should take into account. Goldman doesn't write a how-to guide but gives you something you can use. He uses his own experiences as examples, and teaches by the benefit of experience. Goldman is a bona fide raconteur, so his stories are amusing and readable, no matter the interest in finding producers, or the money behind the scenes falling apart. [I gotta wonder when Hollywood is going to run out of inspirational true-to-life sports stories. When they do, Mark Wahlberg's career is over.]In terms of authority, screenwriters rank somewhere between the man who guards the studio gate and the man who runs the studio (this week). And there is a whole world to which we are not privy. And I thought it may be helpful to know at least something about just what is taking place Out There. With that in mind, I've interviewed a number of people who work the other side of the street: studio executives, producers, directors, and stars. By the time we're done, it's my hope that you'll understand a good deal more about why you see what you see on the screen. Apart from recounting his own experiences in Hollywood (or "Out There" as Goldman calls it) from 1985 until just prior to the book's publication in 2000, Goldman also analyzes key scenes from films like "Fargo" and "When Harry Met Sally," explaining what makes these scenes work from a filmmaker's point of view. He also introduces several story ideas, presents a potential synopsis that could lead to a "selling script" (the script that gets the studio to buy your work and make the movie), and then explains why or why not he personally would be interested in that script. Finally, he presents parts of an original screenplay ("The Big A") and gives the reader the responses of several fellow writers who looked it over to give often harsh but potentially helpful pieces of advice. Again, this is the worst period within memory. By the time this book sees print, it may well be the best period within memory. The point being this: Movies are a gold-rush business. The Brits are so different from us, there are no words; but nowhere is the difference clearer than when it comes to war: we venerate victories, they adore disasters. So the greatest battle for them in World War II was Dunkirk.”

Adventures in the screen trade : a personal view of Hollywood Adventures in the screen trade : a personal view of Hollywood

There is also an expanded edition of the book, which includes the full screenplay of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, plus Goldman's analysis of the screenplay's strengths and weaknesses, as "Part Three", and moves the "Da Vinci" section to "Part Four".If survival in the Hollywood film industry is possible, then there is no better "survival guide" than this book, because Goldman tells it like it is. He pulls no punches. Adventures in the Screen Trade is a book about Hollywood written in 1983 by American novelist and screenwriter William Goldman. The title is a parody of Dylan Thomas's Adventures in the Skin Trade. Adventure' pissed off tons of big movie people and pretty much fizzled out his career. Goldman went from writing the big ones like All the President's Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to not much of anything. That he wrote this second book anyway is pretty cool in my book. The man genuinely loves storytelling. [Of course he does, he wrote The Princess Bride.]) Yes all of these. Good, but not great. It could have been split and expanded into two better books, imho.

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

The first three-fourths of this book is a funny and engaging behind-the-scenes look at being a Hollywood screenplay writer. Goldman wrote Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, and both the book and screenplay to A Princess Bride. It was fun for me to read about how he floundered with The Princess Bride until he came up with the idea of having the grandfather read “just the good parts,” which enabled him to jump around. And the critiques from the Farrelly Brothers, Callie Khouri, and other fellow screenwriters felt very flat and redundant. And oddly truncated. Wow! This book is amazing. It tells the kind of wisdom that can only be gained from being in the trenches. The very words and ideas and id’s that can show why it’s almost impossible to get ANYTHING good made in Hollywood. A master class.William Goldman is incredible. Prolifically incredible. In several genres. I read this book on 3-18-97 straight through. I know I did because I wrote this quotation: Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-06-25 13:01:15 Boxid IA40150812 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier urn:lcp:adventuresinscre00gold_0:epub:8a62b3e3-9036-4d39-b5b3-6b2a7dc7dda0 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier adventuresinscre00gold_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9t166r91 Isbn 9780446391177 It get really interesting when the people he’s sent the script too start commenting on it. Right away they have great suggestion that make the film even better. Lccn 82017602 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL23004907M Openlibrary_edition