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Industry insider Kevin Conroy Scott reveals the secrets of writing a successfulscreenplay in a series of fascinating interviews with 21 of the world's leadingscreenwriters—a wonderfully diverse mix, ranging from writers of Hollywoodblockbusters to top writers on the U.S. and European indie scene.Scott explores the screenwriters' creative process and shares their insightsinto what worked—and what didn't—in their greatest films, and why. Eachinterview is an entertaining, illuminating look at the screenwriter's world,offering film buffs and aspiring screenwriters a rare glimpse behind thescenes of some of today's most riveting cinema.
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In these previously unpublished interviews screenwriters of such Hollywood films as The Silence of the Lambs, Rushmore, and Out of Sight and writers of international renown such as Cuarón and Arriaga dish the inside dirt on the business along with describing why and how they love this most collaborative form of public writing. They cover collaboration of a more immediate kind (Payne's and Taylor's Election), working within the traditions of story (Weitz's About a Boy) and within the world of compromise amongst finance, artistic vision, and differing interpretations of the market (almost everyone else). Scott, who knows film from both an academic and practical level, seems to have chosen questions student writers would ask, so this could serve as supplemental or even primary classroom reading, but is also careful to consider general readers and film buffs, asking about not only the rigors of writing but also the films themselves and the changes the writers endured, some not in silence. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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