Adventures In The Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood

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Bottom line: Goldman knows his way around a screenplay, and this book is his behind-the-scenes look at his experience of the movie-making process. Here you’ll find some anecdotes, hilarious one-liners, and all the other goodies one can expect from anything by William Goldman. When Goldman tries to show examples of dialogue, scenes and other script elements that are wrong and don't work.

In the 1980s he wrote a series of memoirs looking at his professional life on Broadway and in Hollywood (in one of these he famously remarked that "Nobody knows anything"). The last section of the book is a particularly helpful exercise where he takes one of his short stories, wrestles it into a screenplay, and then interviews a cinematographer, a production designer, an editor, a composer and a director about what they would do with his finished product.

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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.My fiancee gave up on the final section, about very first drafts and script doctoring, but I found that really fascinating and inspiring. And while Goldman is willing to share his experience and best tips, he’s also realistic about the magic that comes into play when making a movie: ‘Nobody knows anything. Where did you get excited and visualize the imagery and where did you throw the book across the room with boredom. To get a screenplay made involves getting a good director, the right actors, and, of course, the money to make it and properly market it.