|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Zen
and the Art of Screenwriting 2 |
| More
Insights and Interviews |
|
|
| William Froug, 332 pages, 8x8, 1-879505-56-8,
$21.95 paper |
“Threecheers
for Bill Froug, who supports the creative art of screenwriting
andattacks the
tired and outmoded ‘structure workshop’ approach. Great movies need great screenplays,and great screenplays
are not made from formulas. Froug
has had enormous success as a writer, producer, andteacher, and offers levelheaded
advice and penetrating interviews. He encourages writers to express theirown visions, instead
of recycling tired old outlines. Unlike
most screenwriting books, this one could inspiremovies I’d
actually love.”
—Roger Ebert |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
This
collection of new essaysand interviews with some of
Hollywood’s top screenwriters,
producers, anddirectors is a sequel to Froug’s
highly popular Zen and the Art ofScreenwriting. Here, Frougonce again weaves fascinating,
informative interviews with essays that providesage
advice and fresh, thought-provoking insights for
both novice and seasoned screenwriters.
The
essays cover such diversesubjects as creating your
own talent, guarding your surprises,
reinventing oldideas, using guilt as a writer’s
tool, getting your scripts read, Hollywood’srewrite
panic, story-structure gurus, entering screenplay
contests, Hollywood’sephemeral enthusiasms,
and why rooting interest isn’t necessary.
Interviewed are Scott Frank (GetShorty,
Dead Again), Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential,
Payback),Nicholas Kazan (Reversal of Fortune,
Fallen),Frank Pierson (Dog Day Afternoon,
Cool Hand Luke), EricRoth (The Horse Whisperer,
Forrest Gump), Aaron Sorkin (AFew Good Men,
The American President), Robin Swicord (LittleWomen,
Practical Magic), Richard Donner (Lethal
Weapon, TheOmen), and Lauren Shuler-Donner
(Any Given Sunday, Bulworth). |
|
|
William Froug is
anEmmy-winning writer-producer whose television credits
include Playhouse 90 and TheTwilight Zone. The
Producers Guild named him Producer of the Year in 1956,and
the Writers Guild of America awarded him their Valentine
Davies Award in1987. He
is professor emeritus at UCLA, where he founded its present
film and television writing program, and theauthor of Screenwriting
Tricks of the Trade, The Screenwriter Looks at theScreenwriter,
The New Screenwriter Looks at the New
Screenwriter, and Zenand the Art of Screenwriting. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
