威廉·戈德曼 — 作者 (8)
编剧 [图书] 豆瓣
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
作者: [美]威廉·戈德曼 / William Goldman 译者: 不雀 / 高奕 出版社: 后浪丨花山文艺出版社 2021
启蒙《社交网络》编剧、“20世纪最受欢迎的讲故事的人”
大卫·芬奇、奉俊昊一致推崇的好莱坞编剧泰斗
马特·达蒙、本·阿弗莱克的剧作导师
奥斯卡最佳原创剧本&改编剧本双冠王
总结职业生涯写就的编剧圣经
「干这行,没人心里有谱!」击穿行业真相
吐露千金难买的“职场”真心话,揭秘夹缝求生的“避坑”大冒险
畅销全美,入行必读
UCLA电影学院推荐书目
特收录代表作《虎豹小霸王》全剧本
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📖 编辑推荐
威廉·戈德曼,自诩三流小说家,好莱坞“局外人”。小说起家,25岁便出版长篇小说,闲时评评舞台剧界,写写体育专栏;而后只身独闯好莱坞,便一发不可收,从畅销作家成功转型编剧,开启了长达半个多世纪的“一手止泻药,一手剧本纸”的职业生涯。
浮浮沉沉数十载,他旁观名利场,思索电影行业真相。已成一代宗师的戈德曼用辛辣幽默的自我调侃,写下在这行闯荡的“真心话和大冒险”,集结成《编剧》一书,并告诉你我:
「干这行,没人心里有谱!」
☛ 一代宗师首次传授毕生心得,掌握流行文化密码的“20世纪最受欢迎的讲故事的人”
威廉·戈德曼一生写作了52部电影剧本、16部小说、11部戏剧剧本、8部非虚构著作、5则短篇故事,以及1部儿童读物。他写小说,《傀儡凶手》拿下过有着推理界奥斯卡之称的爱伦·坡奖;他写原创剧本,一出手便是《虎豹小霸王》;他亦做改编,《总统班底》令他收获第二座小金人;《公主新娘》《霹雳钻》《危情十日》等,或成cult故事经典,或是类型典范;多部作品入选“好莱坞101本最佳电影剧本”。
戈德曼还是一名剧本医生,做过许多不留名的工作,包括曾为马特·达蒙和本·阿弗莱克联合编剧的《心灵捕手》幕后掌舵。
☛ 全美畅销!美亚首选编剧入行必读书,故事写作者的解压宝典
「在我填满白纸之前,没有电影二字可言。」
这位众多知名编剧的领路人和暖心前辈,“编剧中的编剧”,带我们走进权力金字塔内部,在书中“诚实交代”身为职业编剧的挣扎与收获,字里行间渗透着“万年乙方”险中求胜的战战兢兢。此书一出,早在《故事》之前便好莱坞人手一本,成为无数影人的启蒙读物,难怪《社交网络》编剧艾伦•索金会说:
“他教会了我编剧的知识,我所知的一切是他所知的大概十分之一吧。”
☛ 业界大佬冒险(渡劫)数十年,凝成半部好莱坞历史
《音乐之声》上映前无人看好?
当时业界龙头环球公司拒绝了《星球大战》?
《E. T. 外星人》开始的预算只有100万美元?在市场调研后,还被放弃了??
《邦妮和克莱德》上映即完败,争取到二次上映,却一炮而红,成为经典?
演艺圈的成功法则究竟是什么?
还是那句:「干这行,没人心里有谱!」
☛ 文风幽默,辛辣吐槽行业万象,无所顾忌,读来酣畅淋漓
——把“毒舌金句王”打在公屏上
◎话明星
明星基本上毫无价值,但又绝对必不可少。
每次电影产业走向不景气时,他们就指出原因所在——明星的贪婪。
如果突然世界上一半的人对你想入非非,肯定是会令人感到一些不安的……明星们必须适应那种精神错乱。
只有经纪人长盛不衰……
◎话导演
编剧杀手。
导演们口中的“智言慧语”加起来甚至盖不住一个小茶杯底。
当导演很难,我指的是挖矿一样的难。
◎话制片
没有人能随心所欲拍摄他们真正想要的;他们拍能花得起的。
“狗屎”是好莱坞指代电影项目的标准术语。如果你问一位制片人他在拍什么,很可能他会说,“嗯,我正在拍这部西部狗屎”或“这部狗屎喜剧”。
◎话编剧
编剧工作就像家务劳动,是即使很漂亮的完成了,也不会有人注意到的工作。
你最终是要玷污你的灵魂的。你可能运气好而发了财,但是肯定不会很快乐。
如果有人问我:“编剧有多大权力?”现在和将来,答案永远是:冲突发生时,零权力。
编剧的地位大概介于制片厂门卫和高管之间。
我们没有得到足够的尊重,当然大多数编剧也不配。
◎话写作
反转次数越多,剧情转折越猛烈,观众的感觉越麻木。
真理很重要,而现实更重要,但最重要的是可信度。
写作最终归为一件事:独自走进房间开始工作。
◎话行业
电影业比淘金业还神秘。
在好莱坞,成功通常不属于最好的那个,而是属于头一个吃螃蟹的人。
到片场的第一天是你生命中最激动人心的一天,而接下来的每一天将会是你人生中最枯燥的日子。
电影行业的失败便是绝对的失败,没有回旋余地。
“银幕上一览无遗,”好莱坞人喜欢这么说,其中蕴含一层褒义:我们可以看出钱花到哪里去了。
☛ 详细回顾个人职业编剧生涯,又名“编剧求生避坑指南”
如何为明星打造戏码且屡试不爽?
什么样的开头能让制片人立刻从剧本堆里pick你的故事?
项目进行中被炒鱿鱼怎么办?
制片人和导演,到底谁更不好相处?
编剧在片场追星是种怎样的体验?
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☛ 干货式分享剧本创作tips,寄语年轻编剧,闪耀着跨越世代的温情关怀之光
在犀利吐槽中,针对编剧会遇到的各种情况,穿插细致且实用的创作方法。更站在创作者的角度,句句入骨,复盘其代表作《虎豹小霸王》优缺点,并从零开始,手把手教授改编剧本的创作思路。
戈德曼在书里说道:“愿你足够幸运和专业,可以为那些坐在黑暗中的人们创造一些辉煌的时刻,就像早期的电影匠人们为你创造过的一样……最后也是最重要的:愿你在这行少受一些摔打……”
☛ 封面设计融合古典与现代,内外双封,点缀烫金工艺,致敬星光大道,彰显《编剧》跨越世代的魅力。
📖 内容简介
没有人比威廉·戈德曼更了解好莱坞是怎么一回事了,本书是他对编剧生涯的一次回顾与分享、对电影行业的一次观察与总结。全书分为“真实篇”和“冒险篇”:他带领我们走进各大片厂的权力金字塔内部,走进奥利弗、纽曼、霍夫曼等伟大演员的工作现场,将八卦轶事、明星秘闻、权钱内幕、运作模式一一道来,毫不避讳又辛辣幽默;他梳理个人创作之路,“诚实交代”身为职业编剧的挣扎与收获,亲自“拉片”复盘对自己代表作的成败体会,并手把手地教你从零开始改编小说。对每一个想写剧本、做编剧的人而言,这位“20世纪最受欢迎的讲故事的人”留下的行业圣经,值得一读再读。
📖 名人推荐
他是我有幸合作过的最好的编剧之一。
——克林特·伊斯特伍德,导演、编剧、制片人
我认为,威廉·戈德曼是有史以来最好的编剧,而不仅如此,他还是位优秀的小说家,甚至是更出色的非虚构作者。他所写的《编剧》是对好莱坞的一次有趣且不可或缺的观察,你会舍不得放下它。
——艾伦·索金,著名编剧,代表作《社交网络》(奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖)
《编剧》是关于演艺行业的最佳书籍。
——米娅·法罗,演员
📖 媒体推荐
对于有抱负的编剧而言,这本书不仅是启蒙读物,而且充满趣味性。
——《综艺》
书中充斥着业内人士的八卦、奇闻异事和幕后故事,戈德曼在每一章都讲出了挑衅意味十足的言论,足以吸引每一位读者的眼球。尽管戈德曼已做出了告诫,但对于一心想成为编剧的人而言,这本书会令他们收集到有价值的建议。
——《出版者周刊》
太迷人了……书里,戈德曼的坦率既有趣,又令人感动。他的书让人惊讶,令人耳目一新,且丰富异常。我怎么推荐都不过分。
——《芝加哥太阳报》
对编剧艺术的一次庆祝和尖锐分析……八卦性足到可以令吃瓜群众着迷,但同时这本书又是权威的、直言不讳的。
——《洛杉矶时报》
行业轶事,热情的偏见,愤世嫉俗的智慧,真实的表达风格,商业电影的精明追随者们必读。
——《科克斯书评》
对创作和批评过程的一次迷人观察……八卦、讽刺、幽默、务实。
——《巴尔的摩太阳报》
他的文章具有娱乐性和权威性……有着令人印象深刻的一手知识。他无情的、高度主观的批评语气……为他的文章增添了更多的活力……信息量大,观点鲜明,读起来很有乐趣。
——《休斯顿邮报》
威廉·戈德曼的离世代表了好莱坞一个时代的终结。
——《洛杉矶时报》
讲故事的天才!他是同世代最著名的好莱坞编剧。
——《好莱坞报道》
精明、实用、精打细算,我想我们已经掌握了这个行业的生存之道。
——《纽约时报》
有趣刺激的阅读体验。在电影公司神圣的拱门背后,戈德曼暴露了深藏其中的自以为是、金钱交易、麻烦难处、政治活动和裙带关系。
——《哈佛克里姆森报》
这是很长一段时间以来出版的最令人耳目一新的“走进好莱坞”书籍之一。
——美国图书馆协会出版的《书目杂志》
纯干货……生动且引人入胜的叙述……任何喜欢电影的人都会发现它迷人而有益。
——《印第安纳论坛报》
有益的……非常精彩有趣的。
——《底特律新闻报》
The Princess Bride [图书] 豆瓣
作者: William Goldman 出版社: Del Rey 2003 - 7
What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?
As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the "S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears.
Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.
What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.
In short, it's about everything.
Eventually to be adapted for the silver screen, THE PRINCESS BRIDE was originally a beautifully simple, insightfully comic story of what happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince in the world--and he turnsout to be a son of a bitch. Guaranteed to entertain both young and old alike by combining scenes of rowsing fantasy with hilarious reality, THE PRINCESS BRIDE secures Goldman's place as a master storyteller.
Which Lie Did I Tell? [图书] 豆瓣
作者: William Goldman 出版社: Vintage 2001 - 2
From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Princess Bride (he also wrote the novel), and the bestselling author of Adventures in the Screen Trade comes a garrulous new book that is as much a screenwriting how-to (and how-not-to) manual as it is a feast of insider information.
If you want to know why a no-name like Kathy Bates was cast in Misery -it's in here. Or why Linda Hunt's brilliant work in Maverick didn't make the final cut-William Goldman gives you the straight truth. Why Clint Eastwood loves working with Gene Hackman and how MTV has changed movies for the worse-William Goldman, one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood today, tells all he knows. Devastatingly eye-opening and endlessly entertaining, Which Lie Did I Tell? is indispensable reading for anyone even slightly intrigued by the process of how a movie gets made.
Adventures in the Screen Trade [图书] 豆瓣
作者: William Goldman 出版社: Grand Central Publishing 1989 - 3
Now available as an ebook for the first time!
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man , Tinsel , Boys and Girls Together , and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , All the President's Men , and other films...into the plush offices of Hollywood producers...into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and into his own professional experiences and creative thought processes in the crafting of screenplays. You get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, "You'll be fascinated.
The Princess Bride [图书] Goodreads
The Princess Bride
作者: William Goldman 出版社: Ballantine Books 2003 - 7
What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?
As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic,
. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears.
Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.
What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.
In short, it's about everything.
Adventures in the Screen Trade [图书] 豆瓣
作者: William Goldman 出版社: Abacus 1996 - 3
As befits more than twenty years in Hollywood, Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman's sparkling memoir is as entertaining as many of the films he has helped to create. From the writer of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men and Marathon Man, Adventures in the Screen Trade is an intimate view of movie-making, of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman and Hoffman, and of the trials and rewards of working inside the most exciting business in the world.
The Princess Bride [图书] 豆瓣
作者: William Goldman 出版社: Harcourt 2007 - 10
William Goldman's beloved novel has sold over one million copies. A movie, released twenty years ago, perfectly captured the spirit of the book and has introduced new fans to its pages ever since. In 1941 a young boy lies bedridden from pneumonia. His perpetually disheveled and unattractive father, an immigrant from Florin with terribly broken English, shuffles into his bedroom carrying a book. The boy wants to know if it has any sports. His father says, "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passions. Miracles." And the little boy, though he doesn't know it, is about to change forever. As Goldman says, "What happened was just this. I got hooked on the story." And coming generations of readers will, too. And coming generations of readers will too.
Magic [图书] Goodreads
作者: William Goldman 出版社: Dell 1976 - 3
Starting out as a boy in the Catskills, Corky develops into a brilliant and famous magician whose long-hidden secret and expert skills attract dark forces intent on destroying him.