Let's start the show

So, I've encouraged my fellow participants to take whatever tone and style they so desire. I, myself, will be engaged in long rambling semi-pointless deconstructionary tactics. It's just the way I roll. It's what I do. I do hope Jhazz will get in the game because he will more than likely provide a more professional approach, but all around it should be interesting. I just wanted to get the ball rolling a little bit, and start talking about a book that I will be reviewing over the course of who knows how long. It's William Goldman's More Adventures in the Screen Trade. As some people know, Bill Goldman is a fairly famous novelist and screenplay writer. If a screenwriter could have any two credits, I would think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid and The Princess Bride would probably be somewhere on the list. Kick-ass flicks, but his style of screenwriting leaves a lot to be desired. He's no Coen Brothers. Now those two write great stand alone screenplays. Whatever, that's kind of beside the point. Bill Goldman has written two all-time classics, but he also wrote Marathon Man, Absolute Power, The Ghost and the Darkness, Maverick. To name but a few of the stinkers. Still those two are all time top one hundred classics for sure. I don't know the actual AFI list, but screw those pretensious jerks anyway if they don't include at least Butch.
The point here, which I'll make and then come back to at another time, is that Goldman is a phenomonal writer when he's hitting on all cylinders, and highly mediocre when not. Actually, that wasn't the point. The point is a little murky just now, but he does have some really interesting stories about the process of filmmaking and some insightful analyses of some of his favorite scenes from other people's films. And I'll get into all of that as we go along.