Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business (Vintage)

Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business (Vintage)
by David Mamet

Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business (Vintage)
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Author: David Mamet
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-12
ISBN: 1400034442
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Vintage

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Book Review: Mamet on Film
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a wonderful book, a series of readable, erudite, witty, practical and very wise essays on film - a subject few write on well. David Mamet of course made his name as a playwright and theatre director long before going on to working on filmscripts and directing films; this background gives him both a specialised dramatic knowledge and the sort of genuine literary credentials few in Hollywood have matched. (Mamet is, incidentally, also unusual in being an American director with a keen sense of the history of British film.) It's a key book on the cinema.
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Summary of Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business (Vintage)

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.

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. 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.

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