Four Screenplays

<b>Yes you <i>can</i> write a great screenplay. Let Syd Field show you how.</b><br><b><br>I based <i>Like Water for Chocolate</i> on what I learned in Syd's books. Before I always felt structure imprisoned me but what I learned was structure really freed me to focus on the story.--Laura Esquivel</b> <p/>Technology is transforming the art and craft of screenwriting. How does the writer find new ways to tell a story with pictures to create a truly outstanding film? Syd Field shows <i>what works why and how</i> in four extraordinary films: <i>Thelma & Louise Terminator 2: Judgement Day The Silence of the Lambs </i>and <i>Dances with Wolves.</i> <p/>Learn how: <p/><b>Callie Khouri </b> in her first movie script <i>Thelma & Louise </i> rewrote the rules for good road movies and played against type to create a new American classic.<br><b>James Cameron </b> writer/director of <i>Terminator 2: Judgement Day </i>created a sequel integrating spectacular special effects and a story line that transformed the Terminator the quintessential killing machine into a sympathetic character. <i>This</i> is how an action film is written.<br><b>Ted Tally</b> adapted Thomas Harris's chilling 350-page novel <i>The Silence of the Lambs </i>into a riveting 120-page script--a lesson in the art and craft of adapting novels into film.<br><b>Michael Blake</b><i> </i>author of <i>Dances with Wolves </i>achieved every writer's dream as he translated his novel into an uncompromising film. Learn how he used transformation as a spiritual dynamic in this work of mythic sweep. <p/>Informative and utterly engrossing <i>Four Screenplays</i> belongs in every writer's library next to Syn Field's highly acclaimed companion volumes <i>Screenplay The Screenwriter's Workbook </i>and <i>Selling a Screenplay.</i> <p/><b>If I were writing screenplays . . . I would carry Syd Field around in my back pocket wherever I went.--Steven Bochco writer/producer/director <i>L.A. Law Hill Street Blues</i></b>