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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 3
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 02, 2004 - 03:12 pm: | 
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This is not a black book, but I haven't posted here in a while and I am still getting back in the groove.
It is mostly tell all gossip and dish, but a few chapters would be useful to anyone who intends to embark on a scriptwriting career in Hollyweird. |
Whistlingwoman
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Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 02, 2004 - 03:50 pm: |
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I worked at one of the agencies mentioned while this guy was at his height and he was a bonafide kook. Egomaniac to the nth degree. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 12
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 04, 2004 - 03:08 pm: |
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I think he might be the first to admit it--I think though that his revelations about the way the industry treats and uses screenwriters would be an eyeopener for many. |
Mike_e
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Username: Mike_e
Post Number: 2
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 05, 2004 - 03:02 pm: |
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Screenwriters have always been the low man on the creative totem pole in film. This is why so many go on to direct [Preston Sturges, Billy Wilder, Abraham Polonsky,etc]. William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler and scores of other novelists and writers learned that lesson. It is a good deal financially though & always has been. David Bradley wrote about living "in" his severance pay from one project. The late director-actor-screenwriter Bill Gunn wrote a very good novel about his experiences Rhinestone Sharecropping & a play Black Picture Show. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 22
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 08, 2004 - 05:18 pm: |
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What I found revealing in the book was the way Eszterhas was brought on--everybody talks about going the film school route, blah blah blah but he had written a book that was NOMINATED (did'nt win) the National Book Award and his book agent suggested he write a screenplay (he had never done it before) and he just wanted to stay in California (he was working for Rolling Stone then and they were moving from San Francisco) and so he did some research and did an outline/treatment (it was actually neither, because he didn't know what a treatment was) and they hooked him up with some directors and producers who nursed him through the process tThe result was the script for F.I.S.T. which was an F.L.O.P. but since he had done a film starring Sylvester Stallone he was a star. He said that he wrote a number of screenplays that have never been produced and saw his price for doing them rise with each one.
He further had earned millions for writing scripts that are unproduced to this day and he wrote of people who earned big money for writing scripts that have never been produced that are bought for other reasons--the writer is an agent that they want to keep happy, etc.
You need to read this book |
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