This book is a fabulous little guide to everything you might want in a screenwriting guide. Not only that, but it works for other styles of writing, too. Especially novels.
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I’m still reading because I’m practicing step by step with reading a chapter and doing the exercise while trying to finish my screenplay. I LOVE the exercises and the film suggestions and examples to watch and study. I’ve study the movie Annie Hall and Dog Day Afternoon as suggested in the book. I cant wait to finish the book as well as my screenplay
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This a great book for any writer. I picked it off a bookstore shelf back in 1980 and it changed my life. Suddenly I knew about structure. It told me what I needed to know. It was the key that opened the door to understanding, not just movies, but books, stories, essays and now I write my speeches based on the same structural moments. I look at movies and follow the structure and I know a good from a bad speaker depending on...
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Reading reader reviews of books on writing for the screen is about like reading reviews of movies: There's a lot of disagreement between the eyes of beholders. I sometimes think I should ask the reviewers at Mr. Showbiz what I should get high on before going to see what they consider a masterpiece."Screenplay" was sent to me by a movie producer who asked me to write a screenplay for a book I wrote. When I lamented that...
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No wonder the New York Times calls this book "the classic," and why it's referred to as the "Bible" of the film industry. I read this book many years ago, and I thought it was very good, then I put it away. When somebody asked to borrow it, I loaned it to them, and never got it back. When I started thinking about writing a screenplay, the first thing I did was look for this book. I didn't remember who I loaned it to, so...
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