The Screenwriter's Problem Solver : How to Recognize, Identify, and Define Screenwriting Problems

Syd Field

ISBN 10: 0440504910 / ISBN 13: 9780440504917

Editore: Random House Publishing Group Feb 1998, 1998

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Neuware - The definitive guide to identifying and fixing common screenwriting problems from the most sought-after screenwriter teacher in the world (Hollywood Reporter) If I were writing screenplays . . . I would carry Syd Field around in my back pocket. Steven Bochco, writer/producer/director, L.A. Law, Hill Street BluesAll writing is rewriting. But what do you change, and how do you change it All screenplays have problems. They happened to Die Hard: With a Vengeance and Broken Arrow and didn t get fixed, leaving the films flawed. They nearly shelved Platoon until Oliver Stone rewrote the first ten pages and created a classic. They happen to every screenwriter. But good writers see their problems as a springboard to creativity.Bestselling author Syd Field, who worked on over 1,000 screenplays a year, gives you step-by-step instructions on how to make your screenplay shine. With The Screenwriter s Problem Solver, you ll learn how to: Understand what makes great stories work Make your screenplay work in the first ten pages, using Thelma & Louise and Dances With Wolves as models Use a dream assignment to let your creative self break free overnight Make action build character, the way Quentin Tarantino does Recover when you hit the wall and overcome writer s block foreverFieldprovides the professional secrets that make movies brilliant secrets that can make your screenplay one headed for success . . . or even Cannes.

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• Titolo: The Screenwriter's Problem Solver : How to Recognize, Identify, and Define Screenwriting Problems
• Editore: Random House Publishing Group Feb 1998
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0440504910
• ISBN 13: 9780440504917
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 207 L x 132 A x 21 P (millimetri) 207 millimetri di larghezza per 132 millimetri di altezza per 21 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 296 grammi

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All writing is rewriting. But what do you change, and how do you change it? All screenplays have problems. They happened to Die Hard: With a Vengeance and Broken Arrow-and didn't get fixed, leaving the films flawed. They nearly shelved Platoon-until Oliver Stone rewrote the first ten pages and created a classic. They happen to every screenwriter. But good writers see their problems as a springboard to creativity. Now bestselling author Syd Field, who works on over 1,000 screenplays a year, tells you step-by-step how to identify and fix common screenwriting problems, providing the professional secrets that make movies brilliant-secrets that can make your screenplay one headed for success...or even Cannes. Learn how to:

•Understand what makes great stories work
•Make your screenplay work in the first ten pages, using Thelma & Louise and Dances With Wolves as models
•Use a "dream assignment" to let your creative self break free overnight
•Make action build character, the way Quentin Tarantino does
•Recover when you hit the "wall"-and overcome writer's block forever

Informazioni sull?autore

Syd Field (1935–2013), the internationally renowned “guru of screenwriting,” was the author of eight bestselling books on the subject, including Screenplay, published in twenty-three languages and used in hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide and around the world. He was inducted into the Final Draft Hall of Fame in 2006 and was the first inductee into the Screenwriting Hall of Fame of the American Screenwriting Association. He was also a special consultant to the Film Preservation Project for the Getty Center.