The Screenwriter's Workbook (A Dell Trade Paperback)

The Screenwriter's Workbook (A Dell Trade Paperback)

author: Syd Field

name: Steev

average rating: 3.60

book published: 1988

rating: 2

read at: 2009/03/01

date added: 2009/04/22

shelves: filmmaking

review:
This is one of many "how to write a script the Hollywood way so you can sell it and make tons o' money" books. It's full of really boring standard rules about how stories and scripts work and what you're supposed to do and they're just all very unconvincing. It was good to read just to kind of get a grasp of what this famous guru thought, but i was pretty skeptical the whole way through.



I think with a lot of books like this, it's for people who really aren't that creative or don't think they are, and want some by-the-numbers method of becoming an "artist." but there is none. Anyone who tells you otherwise is probably scamming you.



Read "Me, You, Memento and Fargo" instead of this, for ways that many great films don't follow the standard formulas.