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What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting (Hardcover)

by Marc Norman (Author)

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Hardcover: 560 pages
Publisher: Harmony; 1 edition (23 Oct 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0307383393
ISBN-13: 978-0307383396
Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.4 x 3.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 523,844 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'The movies: they tear you away from your home, draw you into a pigsty of people, make you do stuff that disgusts you, rip out all your ambition of inventiveness, reduce you to a hack - and what do you get for it? A fortune.' Screenwiter Samuel Hoffenberg 'Will you accept three hundred per week to work for Paramount Pictures? All expenses paid. The three hundred is peanuts. Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around.' Telegram from Herman Mankiewicz (who wrote Citizen Kane) to Ben Hecht (who wrote The Front Page) 'They're destroying my script. They're wrecking my beautiful story' Paddy Chayefsky on the filming of Altered States 'Naa, you know, what he did was cross out a lot of stuff that I wrote, and he told me to do this and that, and we usually fought about it, and sometimes he really f**ked things up.' Robert Towne, on being asked if Warren Beatty, who got the first credit, had written any of the script for Shampoo" --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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'a thrilling account of a somewhat elusive profession'
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2.0 out of 5 stars Hack Job, 24 May 2009

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This review is from: What Happens Next?: A History of Hollywood Screenwriting (Hardcover)

This was a disappointing book. I like books about screenwriters and Hollywood - fiction or non-fiction, but this book trots neatly through a sketchy history of Hollywood writers over the decades, but doesn't have much passion or direction. It had all the excitement of a graduate thesis, but without the weight or analysis.

In 'What Happens Next?' Marc Norman is rather disparaging about Fitzgerald's Pat Hobby stories - about a failed screen writer. But whereas Fitzgerald was writing about a hack (and in a way both stylish and entertaining), Mr Norman simply writes like one.

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