About this title: Epstein pens the first book to offer a successful screenwriter's tricks of the trade and to explain what development executives really mean when they complain that "the dialogue is flat." Smart, provocative, and funny, Hollywood insider Epstein diagnoses problems that other screenwriting books barely address .
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780805069921ISBN:0805069925
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Owl Books
Date Published: 2002-10-01
ISBN-13:9780805069921ISBN:0805069925
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780805069921ISBN:0805069925
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Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HENRY HOLT & CO
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780805069921ISBN:0805069925
Description: New. Epstein pens the first book to offer a successful screenwriter's tricks of the trade and to explain what development executives really mean when they complain that "the dialogue is flat. " Smart, provocative, and funny, Hollywood insider Epstein diagn... read more
"This book nicely dispenses with the hard dictum of the screen craft that you must adhere to the template of the three-act structure. After all Shakespeare wrote five act plays. What the book offers is an insider's voice full of suggestions to make your script work. For example, don't put a coincidence at the end of the story, it must come at the beginning if at all, before the audience can rationalize away the contrivance. So I stop and think about that. I will order this from the book factory and keep reading. Also a tv script need be only 93 pages, versus a feature length film script at 110pp. That is by my calculation one hour and fifty minutes of film. Already way too long to sit for a movie unless you are engrossed. What they do to your script is just add scenes, and rarely take out scenes in the shooting process. But by that time the writer is already in the Azores writing their next script. Lots of good info here."
"Out of all the screenwriting books I've read, this is the most sensible and useful. Epstein writes with humor and humility. I would highly recommend this book to anyone attempting a screenplay."
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