A collection of five screenplays by this Academy Award-winning writer. Includes: All the President's Men * Magic * Harper * Maverick * The Great Waldo Pepper. Also features essays by Goldman: "Getting Even or Creative Accounting," "Sneak Previews, or Why Did She Have to Die?," "Hype or Consequences: A Brief History of the Future," "Shooting from the Hip: Don't You Know Anything About Screenwriting?," and "Nothing for Me to Steal: The Secret Life of an Adaptation."
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William Goldman has been writing books and movies for more than forty years. He has won two Academy Awards (for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men), and three Lifetime Achievement Awards in screenwriting.
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To love screenwriting, is to love William Goldman,
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Just go ahead and try to write a screenplay like William Goldman and you'll get slammed! Yet despite the "flowery phrasing" the author of some of cinema's greatest screenplays is a master at getting you to play the movie in your head! It's the great ones that get to break the rules. Every script is an enjoyable read, instantly and visually compelling, and a real lesson for writers on how to use language to give Actors, Directors, Cinematographers, and Script supervisors what they need to know as poetically and economically as possible. I particularly enjoyed reading about the decisions that went into the making of The Great Waldo Pepper. As a kid, this movie really turned me around. It was a life affirming tragedy and it painted an emotional picture of a man's life using every color on this writer's pallette. Worth the price for this one alone! All the essays prefacing the screenplays are a fascinating read, and a window into a facet of film history.
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In 1993, I was working with Shane Black, both of us trying to doctor The Last Action Hero. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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White House, Ernst Kessler, Waldo Pepper, Buena Vista, New York, Betty Fraley, Howard Hunt, John Mitchell, Carl Bernstein, Lew Harper, Miss Estabrook, Ben Greene, Four Seasons, Gordon Liddy, Las Vegas, Linda Hunt, Los Angeles, Paul Newman, Ralph Sampson, Santa Barbara, Bret Maverick, Miss Abbott, Peggy Ann Snow, Cary Grant, George Todson New!
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In 1993, I was working with Shane Black, both of us trying to doctor The Last Action Hero. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shakes his bead, wooden heart, motor sound Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
White House, Ernst Kessler, Waldo Pepper, Buena Vista, New York, Betty Fraley, Howard Hunt, John Mitchell, Carl Bernstein, Lew Harper, Miss Estabrook, Ben Greene, Four Seasons, Gordon Liddy, Las Vegas, Linda Hunt, Los Angeles, Paul Newman, Ralph Sampson, Santa Barbara, Bret Maverick, Miss Abbott, Peggy Ann Snow, Cary Grant, George Todson New!
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- The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald on page 1, and page 5
- Public Relations (Business Masters) by Jon White on page 238, and page 300
- Mel Gibson (Superstars of Film) by Sandy Noble on page 481
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: The Illustrated Novel (Applause Screenplay Series) by Charles McKeown in Front Matter
- Last Action Hero: A Novel by Robert Tine on page 2
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