Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman
Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman
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Adventures in the Screen Trade

Author: William Goldman

Narrator: Kiff VandenHeuvel

Unabridged: 13 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/21/2022


Synopsis

Now available as an audiobook for the first time!

No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films...into the plush offices of Hollywood producers...into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and into his own professional experiences and creative thought processes in the crafting of screenplays. You get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, "You'll be fascinated.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scurra on July 22, 2008

Nobody Knows Anything. Goldman could almost have saved us the 400-pages of what is still one of the most insightful books about the movie-industry, and just printed his Law on a single page at the front. But then we'd have missed a glorious roller-coaster ride through Tinseltown stuffed to the gills w......more

Goodreads review by ThereWillBeBooks on August 18, 2020

Goldman is one of the best storytellers this country has produced, which may seem a bold claim to some, but it happens to be true. His most famous axiom, that “nobody knows anything” is one of those things that grow truer with time and experience. Goldman was referring to success in the movie busine......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on June 11, 2018

We've been listening to As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride and it got me thinking that I hadn't read this book in many years, though I loved it the first time. So I bought a copy and dipped into it over the course of four or five days. Goldman's insider's approach......more

Goodreads review by Michael on December 05, 2008

This is perhaps the best book about screenwriting and the film business ever written. Oscar winner William Goldman, who wrote such classic films as HARPER, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, MARATHON MAN and ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN shares his unique, often difficult, experiences working with top dir......more

Goodreads review by Nigeyb on December 02, 2018

The recent sad news of the death of William Goldman reminded me of an episode (October 2017) of the wonderful Backlisted Podcast about his book Adventures in the Screen Trade. What better way to honour the great man's memory than by reading this book? As a successful screenwriter and novelist, Willia......more


Quotes

"[This] is that big, sad, funny, incisive, revelatory, gossipy, perception-forming book about Hollywood that publishers have been promoting for years -- and now the real thing is finally here."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"A deliciously honest book...Goldman deserves a special Read of the Year award."—The Plain Dealer (Cleavland)