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The Screenwriter's Problem Solver: How to Recognize, Identify, and Define Screenwriting Problems

by Syd Field

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All writing is rewriting. But what do you change, and how do you change it? All screenplays have problems. They happened to Die Hard: With a Vengeance and Broken Arrow-and didn't get fixed, leaving the films flawed. They nearly shelved Platoon-until Oliver Stone rewrote the first ten pages and created a classic. They happen to every screenwriter. But good writers see their problems as a springboard to creativity. Now bestselling author Syd Field, who works on over 1,000 screenplays a year, tells you step-by-step how to identify and fix common screenwriting problems, providing the professional secrets that make movies brilliant-secrets that can make your screenplay one headed for success...or even Cannes. Learn how to:

•Understand what makes great stories work

•Make your screenplay work in the first ten pages, using Thelma & Louise and Dances With Wolves as models

•Use a "dream assignment" to let your creative self break free overnight

•Make action build character, the way Quentin Tarantino does

•Recover when you hit the "wall"-and overcome writer's block forever

Synopsis:

Now bestselling author Syd Field, who works on over 1,000 screenplays a year, tells you step-by-step how to identify and fix common screenwriting problems, providing the professional secrets that make movies brilliant - secrets that can make your screenplay one headed for success...or even Cannes. Learn how to understand what makes great stories work; make your screenplay work in the first ten pages, using Thelma & Louise and Dances With Wolves as models; use a "dream assignment" to let your creative self break free overnight; make action build character, the way Quentin Tarantino does; and recover when you hit the "wall" - and overcome writer's block forever.

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About the Author

Syd Field is a screenwriter, producer, teacher, international lecturer, and author of the bestselling books Screenplay, The Screenwriter's Workbook, Selling a Screenplay, and Four Screenplays. Published in 1982, Screenplay has been translated into sixteen languages, and is used in more than 250 colleges and universities across the country. At present he is creative consultant to the governments of Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Austria, and South Africa, and has been a script consultant for Roland Jaffe's film production company, for Alfonso Arau and Laura Esquivel on Like Water for Chocolate, and for Tri-Star Pictures. He lives in Beverly Hills, California.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780440504917

Author:

Field, Syd

Publisher:

Delta

Author:

Syd Field

Location:

New York, N.Y.

Subject:

Writing Skills

Subject:

Composition & Creative Writing - Play/Scriptwriting

Subject:

Film - Screenwriting

Subject:

Motion picture authorship

Subject:

Motion picture plays

Subject:

Motion picture plays -- Technique.

Subject:

Film & Video - Screenwriting

Subject:

Performing Arts-Film & Video - Screenwriting

Subject:

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing

Subject:

Film and Television-Screenwriting

Subject:

From the Library of Anne Rice-Reference

Subject:

Reference/Writing

Subject:

Reference-Writing Screenplays

Copyright:

1998

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Series Volume:

no. 9304

Publication Date:

February 1998

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

384

Dimensions:

7.99x5.25x1.04 in. .71 lbs.

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Product details 384 pages Random House Publishing Group - 1998-02-00 English 9780440504917 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Ingram, Now bestselling author Syd Field, who works on over 1,000 screenplays a year, tells you step-by-step how to identify and fix common screenwriting problems, providing the professional secrets that make movies brilliant - secrets that can make your screenplay one headed for success...or even Cannes. Learn how to understand what makes great stories work; make your screenplay work in the first ten pages, using Thelma & Louise and Dances With Wolves as models; use a "dream assignment" to let your creative self break free overnight; make action build character, the way Quentin Tarantino does; and recover when you hit the "wall" - and overcome writer's block forever.