screenplays

"Everyone loves a good twist in a movie and that moment of surprise when the audience screams. The screenwriter is the one to thank for memorable movie plots and characterizations. Creative writers will . . . figur[e] out how to take an original concept and create a script that Hollywood moguls will [want] to turn into a blockbuster. They'll learn how to seamlessly incorporate setting, dialogue, and stage directions into a . . . storyline. All the tips and tricks to successful screenwriting are in this . . . guide"--Amazon.com.

A screenplay of the motion picture "The Counselor" in which a lawyer known as the Counselor, who is about to get married, gets caught up in the drug trade on the Texas-Mexico border, thinking the consequence will never catch up with him, and finds his life and those he loves threatened by his actions.

Oscar-winning screenwriter Marc Norman provides a comprehensive history of screenwriting in Hollywood, discussing the Production Code of 1930, the entertainment industry blacklist of the 1950s, the rise of the writer-director in the early 1970s, the famous men and women who have made a name for themselves in the business, and more.

Examines contemporary screenplay writing and craft, through interviews with writers, on twenty-five different films, including "Gladiator" and "Lost in Translation," discussing the process from drawing board to filming, and exposing how a film succeeds or fails.

Text and photographs examine the process of writing a screenplay, discussing story, characters, setting, dialogue, and other related topics. Includes activities.

Contains alphabetically arranged essays that provide information about the careers of sixty-five significant motion-picture writers; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography. Includes a cumulative index.

Analyzes the motion pictures of directors Arthur Penn, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Robert Altman and examines their relationship to contemporary American society and culture.

The complete screenplay to Billy Wilder's film "Double Indemnity" that includes Wilder's and Raymond Chandler's original ending.

Screenplays for the Watergate drama "All the President's Men;" the western "Maverick;" the private detective drama "Harper;" the life and times of "The Great Waldo Pepper;" and the story "Magic.".

Presents the shooting script and pre-production artwork, including color storyboards, conceptual drawings, thumbnail sketches, and more than six hundred black-and-white storyboards, from the film "The Matrix, " as well as commentaries by the artists themselves.