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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group (1 Aug 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0440504902
ISBN-13: 978-0440504900
Product Dimensions: 13.4 x 1.8 x 20.5 cm

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In a field being transformed by technology, Syd Field shows you what works and why and how to find new ways to create a truly outstanding film using four extraordinary examples: Thelma & Louise, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, The Silence Of The Lambs, and Dances With Wolves.

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When Thelma and Louise was first released in the spring of 1991, I was conducting a screenwriting workshop for Austrian filmmakers in Vienna, a city of great beauty and culture, the home of Mozart, Beethoven, Goethe, Schiller, Strauss, Mahler, and Freud, to name just a few, and more recently, the homeland of Billy Wilder and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Read the first page

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More of an essay than an analysis 4 April 2009

By MJ Hermanny

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The book is well written and if you're a fan of the movies discussed then it's very entertaining as there are a lot of anecdotes and in depth interviews with the writer/directors. I wouldn't really call what Field does with these films an analysis though. They're more like entertaining essays from a well informed fan.

I was expecting an act by act, character arc breakdown in digestible bullet points and while these are mentioned it is in a much more conversational rather than educational tone.

An entertaining read.

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This book opens your mind up. 27 Aug 1998

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Syd field gives a very in depth look into what a screenplay is. He has such knowledge and he makes me look at scripts more. The script is more than just what we see on screen.

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...it's quite confuse for me. Lots interviews; what's scripts look like and example (Thelma & Louise; Terminator 2; The Silence of the Lambs; Dances with Wolves) If you look for become screenwriter, step-to-step or sell your screenplay - this book is not for you. Yes, this book confuse me but a bit understood what Sdy Field's interviews about. Argh.

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