Anyone read 'Writing Movies for Fun and Profit'?

Also read the book from a general filmmaking interest perspective, and throughly enjoyed it. It's a manual for everything a capital-H-Hollywood screenwriter has to deal with that isn't screenwriting.

Refreshing to see authors so plainly say something to the effect of, "We love independent films too, but this book isn't about those kinds of movies".

For anyone that isn't familiar with the book, the chapter titles are stuff like "Martin Lawrence Has a Few Thoughts or How to Take Notes from a Movie Star", "Why Does Almost Every Studio Movie SUCK Donkey Balls?", "Credit$", and "Herbie: Fully Loaded".

Last edited by paulou (2012-02-15 20:14:28)

Oh, and the part where they list the addresses of every In-n-Out of Los Angeles County.

That book rocks. Everyone go buy it.

I've not read it yet, but I've thoroughly fucking enjoyed every interview with Tom Lennon I've ever heard.

I highly recommend this one, but any of these video below will make you feel good in your groin. Fun thing he mentions in the aforelinked audio interview, though, is "you know what I've noticed about the mega-famous people I've met? All of them are incredibly nice. The lesser A-listers and B-listers, much more likely to find a dick."

Anyway. Interviews. This one, for instance, is actually an interview about the book.

And finally, here's way too much Kevin Pollak and a lot of Tom Lennon. Skip to 10:07.

I picked a copy after being very entertained by a podcast they did to promote it with (i think?) Creative Screen writing magazine.

I read it more for the stuff about working for the studios then as another 'How-To' guide but they did have some very interesting point on their writing process of outlining and writing alternate scenes.

It's a bloody good read very few people manage to make the subject entertaining