Adventures in the screen trade
by William Goldman · first published 1983
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Includes an idea-to-film production case study of his short story, Da Vinci.
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I’ve just finished reading ‘Adventures in the screen trade’ by William Goldman, the guy who wrote ‘All The President’s Men’, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid’ and ‘The Princess Diaries’. While written in the early 80s, it’s thoroughly entertaining and very insightful…
on “Is Rotten Tomatoes Killing the Movie Industry? No, Bad Movies Are” ↗…example; Internet startups in Silicon Valley are another; movies in L.A. is a third; and so on. It's like moving to Hollywood because you want to be an actor or writer. Take a look at William Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade, where he says: "I find Los Angeles a very difficult and potentially dangerous place to work in, and I think anyone seriously contemplating a career as a screenwriter ought to move there as soon as it's…
on “Seven Reasons Tech Start-Ups Are Setting Up Shop in New York” ↗…confident, why not short it? What? He should tell you his investment strategy? These things are secret for a reason. As William Goldman famously said, no one knows anything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_in_the_Screen_Trade
on “Pandora plans $231M share offering” ↗No major artwork was created by a committee. Actually, William "The Princess Bride" Goldman argues in his famous book about screenwriting (Adventures in the Screen Trade) that all movies are created by committee. He lists a bunch of people that need to do their jobs correctly in order to make a movie any good, starting (obviously) with the screenwriter and the director…
on “The dumbification of Spore” ↗…definition. startup founders literally have no idea why things take off and they have no idea why they win So William Goldman wrote an entire book on this very subject - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_in_the_Screen_Trade#... That book has chapter upon chapter upon chapter with the same exact advice - "Nobody knows anything" Goldman says after he wrote the book, his phone simply stopped ringing for four full years, because…
on “Startup School And Survivor Bias” ↗Viz. the screenwriter William Goldman’s “Nobody knows anything” from his book Adventures in the Screen Trade. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-11-ca-807-st... https://variety.com/2018/film/opinion/william-goldman-dies-a...
on “The Carrot Problem” ↗