Plots and characters : a screenwriter on screenwriting /
Kaufman, Millard.
Plots and characters : a screenwriter on screenwriting / by Millard Kaufman. - Los Angeles, CA : Really Great Books, c1999. - x, 265 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Pt.] 1: The business of writing. Pitfalls and pratfalls: you know who did the hair? ; Top dogs, big brass: don't show up ; Writing and writhing: growing corns on your ass ; Running the bases: you've got to hit it first --
[Pt.] 2: Writing in Hollywood (or anywhere else). Getting going: prejudice and the script ; Rewrites and critiques: arm wrestling the muse is not is not enough ; Speed and stagnation: how good are you at defrosting a refrigerator? --
[Pt.] 3: The script: basics. From Greece to Hollywood: why aren't you home writing? ; Catechism beginning with theme: stick to it like grim death ; The three-act form: surrender and we'll give you a second act ; Plot and subplot: thirty-six situations including the horse will help her ; Character: heroes and heavies: raising a fist against fate ; Anatomy of a screenplay: emotions are the only facts --
[Pt.] 4: The script: making it rich. A piece of the action: invoking the worst calamity ; Conflict and empathy: the cardinal virtues ; The parabola of change: the three C's ; Plants and payoffs: progressing backwards ; Dialogue and preachment: what's said ; The orchestration of urgency: exaggeration and excitement ; A miscellany of basics: examined at the risk of belaboring the obvious ; End game: the road to fade-out.
1893329038
Motion picture authorship.
Películas--Autoria.
PN 1996 / K21p 1999
808.23
Plots and characters : a screenwriter on screenwriting / by Millard Kaufman. - Los Angeles, CA : Really Great Books, c1999. - x, 265 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Pt.] 1: The business of writing. Pitfalls and pratfalls: you know who did the hair? ; Top dogs, big brass: don't show up ; Writing and writhing: growing corns on your ass ; Running the bases: you've got to hit it first --
[Pt.] 2: Writing in Hollywood (or anywhere else). Getting going: prejudice and the script ; Rewrites and critiques: arm wrestling the muse is not is not enough ; Speed and stagnation: how good are you at defrosting a refrigerator? --
[Pt.] 3: The script: basics. From Greece to Hollywood: why aren't you home writing? ; Catechism beginning with theme: stick to it like grim death ; The three-act form: surrender and we'll give you a second act ; Plot and subplot: thirty-six situations including the horse will help her ; Character: heroes and heavies: raising a fist against fate ; Anatomy of a screenplay: emotions are the only facts --
[Pt.] 4: The script: making it rich. A piece of the action: invoking the worst calamity ; Conflict and empathy: the cardinal virtues ; The parabola of change: the three C's ; Plants and payoffs: progressing backwards ; Dialogue and preachment: what's said ; The orchestration of urgency: exaggeration and excitement ; A miscellany of basics: examined at the risk of belaboring the obvious ; End game: the road to fade-out.
1893329038
Motion picture authorship.
Películas--Autoria.
PN 1996 / K21p 1999
808.23