Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (818 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1400034442 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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. All rights reserved. He expounds at length, for example, upon his well-known penchant for straightforward storytelling, where drama boils down to "the creation and deferment of hope," and every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?" At other times, he's happy simply to explain why he thinks Laurence Olivier was a terrible film actor or to test out a theory that the early film industry owes its development to Eastern European Jews with Asperger's syndrome. From Publishers Weekly Mamet's a veteran screenwriter and director (currently producing The Unit for CBS), but that doesn't mean he has any great love for the industry—his Hollywood is the ster
Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like a personals ad? Why are there so many producers listed in movie credits? And what on earth do those producers do anyway? Refreshingly unafraid to offend, Mamet provides hilarious, surprising, and refreshingly forthright answers to these and other questions about every aspect of filmmaking from concept to script to screen. From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and playwright: an exhilaratingly subversive inside look at Hollywood from a filmmaker who’s always played by his own rules. A bracing, no-holds-barred examination of the strange contradictions of Tinseltown, Bambi vs. Godzilla dissects the movies with Mamet’s signature style and wit.
A Hoot There is a scene in the movie of The Fountainhead where the industrialist tells Gary Cooper (Howard Roark) that as he traveled across the country everytime he saw an interesting building he discovered that it was a Howard Roark design. Similarly nearly everytime I see a good movie or TV show it seems to be the work of David Mamet.The above paragraph is an example of making a point through a reference to a movie scene. That's how this book is written. It's a . Art Versus $$$ C. Hutton David Mamet is a playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for "Glengarry Glen Ross" and an Oscar nominated screenwriter for "The Verdict" and "Wag The Dog." It is no wonder that, as a wordsmith, "Bambi vs. Godzilla" is a delight to read. This book is a series of opinated essays by a Hollywood insider who attacks the industry for favoring profits over art. There are times that the author overwrites a simple thought into a complex paragraph that leaves one shakin. bitter old man Don't buy this book. It is a complete waste of time and money. While Mamet undeniably has talent as a writer and director, I don't to spend time reading his cynical social commentaries or his bitter diatribes against an industry that has treated him pretty well.This book adds absolutely nothing to the study of the craft of writing or directing. It give no original insights into an industry that everyone knows is cutthroat and dysfunctional.R. Blair.