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A review by jeremychiasson
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting by William Goldman
3.0
From the man who wrote: The Princess Bride, All the President's Men, Butch Cassidy and more, "Adventures in the Screen Trade" is a very funny and engaging guide/memoir about the Hollywood Screenwriting Trade.
This book is an interesting patchwork of chapters, and jumps around a lot. You really feel like you're out to dinner with Goldman and he is just dazzling you with hilarious anecdotes about Robert Redford and keen insights into the mind of movie execs. Goldman possesses a lively, conversational voice, opinionated yet down to earth. You can hear the Brooklyn in his writing (or what I as a Canadian imagine Brooklyn sounds like) and sense his sheer passion for movies.
I love how he constantly vacillates between ridiculing movie stars for their ego, but also lionizing them for their sheer presence and charisma. He is fascinated by movie stars above all else, and obsessively analyzes what gives them their ineffable quality.
This book also contains a very reader friendly version of his Butch Cassidy screenplay.
This book is an interesting patchwork of chapters, and jumps around a lot. You really feel like you're out to dinner with Goldman and he is just dazzling you with hilarious anecdotes about Robert Redford and keen insights into the mind of movie execs. Goldman possesses a lively, conversational voice, opinionated yet down to earth. You can hear the Brooklyn in his writing (or what I as a Canadian imagine Brooklyn sounds like) and sense his sheer passion for movies.
I love how he constantly vacillates between ridiculing movie stars for their ego, but also lionizing them for their sheer presence and charisma. He is fascinated by movie stars above all else, and obsessively analyzes what gives them their ineffable quality.
This book also contains a very reader friendly version of his Butch Cassidy screenplay.