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A review by explodinghead
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting by William Goldman
3.0
This book is great fun. Written in a friendly approachable way, it moves by extremely quickly. In terms of being "helpful" for screenwriters, I don't think the first 300 pages are that informative. Goldman deals with a lot of inside-baseball regarding the practices of Hollywood.
The last half is much more helpful -- you get Goldman's original screenplay of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" along with his own brutally honest breakdown of the screenplay's strengths and weaknesses. He also shares an original short story he wrote and discusses the numerous ways to try to adapt it into a screenplay.
The last half is much more helpful -- you get Goldman's original screenplay of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" along with his own brutally honest breakdown of the screenplay's strengths and weaknesses. He also shares an original short story he wrote and discusses the numerous ways to try to adapt it into a screenplay.