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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4375
EAN: 9780061189197
ISBN: 0061189197
Label: HarperEntertainment
Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: February 01, 2008
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Release Date: February 05, 2008
Sales Rank: 275028
Studio: HarperEntertainment
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In this fascinating survey of contemporary screen craft, David Cohen of Script and Variety magazines leads readers down the long and harrowing road every screenplay takes from idea to script to screen. In interviews with Hollywood screenwriters from across the board—Oscar winners and novices alike—Cohen explores what sets apart the blockbuster successes from the downright disasters.
Tracing the fortunes of twenty-five films, including Troy, Erin Brockovich, Lost in Translation, and The Aviator, Cohen offers insider access to back lots and boardrooms, to studio heads, directors, and to the over-caffeinated screenwriters themselves. As the story of each film evolves from the drawing board to the big screen, Cohen proves that how a script is written, sold, developed, and filmed can be just as dramatic and intriguing as the movie itself—especially when the resulting movie is a fiasco.
Covering films of all kinds—from tongue-in-cheek romps like John Waters's A Dirty Shame to Oscar winners like Monster's Ball and The Hours—Screen Plays is an anecdote-filled, often inspiring, always revealing look at the alchemy of the movie business. With Cohen as your expert guide, Screen Plays exposes how and why certain films (such as Gladiator) become "tent poles," those runaway successes every studio needs to survive, and others become train wrecks. Full of critical clues on how to sell a script—and avoid seeing it destroyed before the director calls Action!—it's the one book every aspiring screenwriter will find irresistible.
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A compelling read for movie fans and industry professionals alike. Cohen's book covers twenty-five scripts, each script following its own unique and sometimes tumultuous journey. The book feels like a backstage pass, as if a secret spy cam was tethered to each script from beginning to end and Cohen plucks out for the reader the most fascinating twists and turns of each journey, giving us plenty of gems of insider information: including personal quotes from various people involved with each film, ... Read More
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I caught up with this book in the library -- (and then actually bought a copy)...it serves as a warning to anyone that trys to talk-the-walk of attempting writing screenplays. If they only knew how Hollywood eats you up, and leaves you as road kill...I found the authors conversations with the people that lived to talk about their films -- (with the best of intentions) a Testament to the flawed movie making process...sad but amazingly fascinating. Eat it up, this is a good one!!
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That's the eye catching sub-head for Mr. Cohen's very candid essay on the making of the movie "Bounce." It is not even a movie I saw and yet, I couldn't get myself to put down the book (and get back to work) until I finished this painfully insightful memoir by writer/director Don Roos.
In fact, the entire book is a little tough to put down because each story gets your foot inside the door of what writers had to endure to get their stories on the big screen. In some cases, you get the ... Read More
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Have you ever loved a book and then been disappointed by how it was butchered in the movie? Or, thought a book was nothing more than a movie script, and then be enchanted at how it came alive on screen?
This fbook traces the stories of how 25 movies made that transition, and I enjoyed every step of the way. Cohen interviews the "writer and explores the sometimes torturous path from idea to finished film from its very root the transformations.
Writers are sometimes ... Read More
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I've been a working writer for 30 years, so David Cohen's book is deliciously like listening in on the personal conversations of compatriots in the craft--but the more I read, the more relieved I was that I'd never been attracted to screenwriting. Cohen's fresh, entertaining and whip-smart insights help to lace these in-depth interviews with meaning and pathos, even when the writers themselves border on the vapid--and those with the most to say shine through, thanks to the author's careful balance ... Read More
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