Book Description
Before the director or actors can work their magic onscreen a writer, often working alone, faces the blank page and must be the first to create the magic. Yet the writer is usually ignored by critics eager to give credit to the director or sometimes an actor. Not only that, the original vision of the screenwriter rarely makes it to the screen intact—Imagine if your favorite movie could have even been better had that image-conscious actress not demanded changes to the script? The screenplays and movies discussed include:
A Beautiful Mind
Adaptation
Almost Famous
Ararat
Black Hawk Down
Blade 2
Cast Away
Catch Me if You Can
City by the Sea
The Cell
Dancer in the Dark
Far From Heaven
Frailty
The Gift
Gladiator
John Q.
Insomnia
In the Bedroom
Memento
MIB2
Minority Report
MonsterÂ’s Ball
OceanÂ’s Eleven
Panic Room
Pay it Forward
Pearl Harbor Proof of Life Road to Perdition
Signs
Spy Game
We Were Soldiers
Windtalkers
Traffic
Unbreakable
Who Wrote That Movie?: Screenwriting in Review: 2000 - 2002 SYNOPSIS
Before the director or actors can work their magic onscreen a writer, often working alone, faces the blank page and must be the first to create the magic. Yet the writer is usually ignored by critics eager to give credit to the director or sometimes an actor. Not only that, the original vision of the screenwriter rarely makes it to the screen intact-Imagine if your favorite movie could have even been better had that image-conscious actress not demanded changes to the script.
The screenplays and movies discussed include:
A Beautiful Mind
Adaptation
Almost Famous
Ararat
Black Hawk Down
Blade 2
Cast Away
Catch Me if You Can
City by the Sea
The Cell
Dancer in the Dark
Far From Heaven
Frailty
The Gift
Gladiator
John Q.
Insomnia
In the Bedroom
Memento
MIB2
Minority Report
Monster's Ball
Ocean's Eleven
Panic Room
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