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Breakfast with Sharksby Michael Lent A Screenwriter's Guide to Getting the Meeting, Nailing the Pitch, Signing the Deal, and Navigating the Murky Waters of Hollywood
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Fade Inby Robert A Berman, Bob Berman The Screenwriting Process, Second Edition
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Paperback, 265 pages |
| Publisher: |
Lone Eagle Publishing Company |
| Pub. Date: |
April 2002 |
| ISBN: |
1580650414 |
| Dimensions: |
5.95 × 0.76 × 8.97 inches |
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Description
Michael Chase Walker offers a clear and straightforward framework upon which to build story plots. Replete with hundreds of film references and a step-by step breakdown of some of the greatest movies ever written, Power Screenwriting is an inspiring and must-own manual for any serious modern day storyteller. Standing on the broad shoulders of Joseph Campbell, Christopher Vogler, and others who have demonstrated how mythology is used, Walker brings passion, insight and clarity to a whole new range of story traditions never before examined.
Whereas most screenwriting books focus on the over used three-act structure, Michael Chase Walker offers a wide variety of alternative principles, and techniques that are much more flexible, adaptable and relevant for the modern story-teller. Furthermore, he shows how heroes need not be cookie-cutter products of the traditional Hollywood formula, but can be carefully developed to convey the meaning and power characteristic of the greatest movie heroes and villains of all time.
Using such great Academy Award-winning films as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kramer vs. Kramer, Moonstruck and The Silence of the Lambs, Michael Chase Walker offers thoughtful and relevant analysis of what makes a screenplay work. In addition, he tackles such common screenwriter questions as:
- My second act is too long and seems to plod along. How can I quicken its pace?
- My ending is a good one, but arrives too soon. What should I do?
- My third act isn't "big" enough for the movies.
- I've written thirty pages of my script—where do I go from here?
- I have a great second and third act, but I don't know where to begin.
- My first act is boring: too long and uneventful.
- My dialogue is too singy-songy and on-the-nose; what should I do?
Mr. Walker is a screenwriting professor and lives in Los Angeles.
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Product Details
| Format: |
Paperback, 265 pages |
| Publisher: |
Lone Eagle Publishing Company |
| Pub. Date: |
April 2002 |
| ISBN: |
1580650414 |
| Dimensions: |
5.95 × 0.76 × 8.97 inches |
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