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Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting

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Goldman takes us to very entertaining book of memories about his experience in the "screen trade" highly recommended. The business is constricting, studios are making fewer movies, and all anyone cares about anymore is IP and blockbusters. It includes the entire screenplay of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, followed by a section with Goldman's opinion of what worked and what didn't. I'm not quite enough of a film buff to really care about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid or Marathon Man.

Between all the self-aggrandizing and payback that Willy skillfully disguises as friendly banter, he throws in some screenwriting advice. Although written in 1983, with many films he cites from this era, I am sure the process is little changed. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.I'm really fond of Philip Kaufman's script and direction of The Right Stuff, which is faithful to Tom Wolfe's book, so it's probably fortuitous that Goldman was fired, particularly since he had no interest in Chuck Yeager, the most compelling character from Wolfe's book. Nothing is more entertaining than reading about Bill Goldman in the trenches, trying his best to ensure that a movie he's working on will actually get finished. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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.

He mentions that, out of courtesy, he's only naming two of the actors in question because some of them have recently died. What impressed me most while reading, beyond Goldman's frank and brutally honest discussion of Hollywood, was how relevant so much if it seems to the business today.

Goldman was referring to success in the movie business, the idea being that when something worked and was a hit, it just kind of worked and nobody really knew why, though everyone with a hand in the production would claim otherwise. Part Two: Adventures" has stories from 11 projects that Goldman has been involved with, from Charly and Masquerade, to the Academy Award-winning Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men, to some projects that remained unrealised, such as a musical remake of Grand Hotel. He then adapted his novel The Princess Bride to the screen, which marked his re-entry into screenwriting. If your passion and enthusiasm are unfazed after wading through Goldman's horror stories and cautionary tales, it might just be for you. Goldman is one of the best storytellers this country has produced, which may seem a bold claim to some, but it happens to be true.

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