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Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting by William Goldman
5.0
Goldman, William. Adventures in the Screen Trade. Grand Central, 1983.
William Goldman was the screenwriter for many of my favorite movies, from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, to All the President’s Men to Princess Bride (which, sadly, had not been made when the book was published). This memoir lets us know how he went about his work. His strength as a writer is an unwavering sense of where the backbone of a story lies, so his movies don’t get off track as frequently as many others. Most surprisingly, we learn how much he hated working on All the President’s Men because there were divas wherever he turned, from Robert Redford to Woodward and Bernstein themselves. Goldman takes us through the elements of a screenplay and provides insight into the important and ambiguous role of the writer in the movie-making process. Highly recommended.
William Goldman was the screenwriter for many of my favorite movies, from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, to All the President’s Men to Princess Bride (which, sadly, had not been made when the book was published). This memoir lets us know how he went about his work. His strength as a writer is an unwavering sense of where the backbone of a story lies, so his movies don’t get off track as frequently as many others. Most surprisingly, we learn how much he hated working on All the President’s Men because there were divas wherever he turned, from Robert Redford to Woodward and Bernstein themselves. Goldman takes us through the elements of a screenplay and provides insight into the important and ambiguous role of the writer in the movie-making process. Highly recommended.