action films, 187-98

Act I (Set-Up), 2,3,21-24,27, 31,45,

84, 89,97,106-26,137,200-202
Chinatown, 107,110-25 diagram,
21,90,200 first ten pages, 23,3132,90,97,98,
100,106,107,110-21,209
inciting incident, 97,131 material
that must be covered, 100 page one,
word one, 106 plot point 1,26,
27,28,45,64, 70,
84, 85,87,99,134-36,137,143,
144,145, 147,154,157-58,187,
200,202,207,266 See also
beginning (opening) Act II
(Confrontation), 3,24-25,148,
154,201
diagram, 21,201 plot point II,
26,27,28,85,87,99,
102,103,137, 143,144,146,147,
158,170, 187 Act III
(Resolution), 3,26,85-86,
90-91,92-93,95,102-3,158,
179,201-2
beginnings and, 102-3 Chinatown,
93-95 diagram, 21,90,202 See also
ending(s) Adaptation, 259
adaptations, 257-74 "beat sheet," 262
biography (person's life), 271-73
examples, 258-69 exercise, 274
getting rights, 303-4 magazine or
news article, 273-74 novels, 257-67
plays, 269-71 sequels, 267-69

Bacall, Lauren, 4
Ball, Alan, 23,168,186,223
Ball, Lucille, 11
Ballad of Cable Hogue, The, 60

Adventures in the Screen Trade

(Goldman), 142 agents,
297,298-301 Albee, Edward, 269 Alice
Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 8,12,
75
Aliens, 267
Allen, Woody, 29,39, 70,180,181, 278
All the President's Men, 12,35,99,107,
181,265-66 Alonzo, John, 11
Altman, Robert, 11 Amadeus, 271
American Beauty, 2,7,23,27,29, 30,
40,44,86,93,96,99,130, 131,
134-36,137,138,139,168-69,
186,196-98,209,219,246
American Graffiti, 8,11,12 Anderson,
Paul Thomas, 1,49,187 Anderson,
Wes, 35,98, 186,187 Andrus, Mark,
68 Anhalt, Edward, 204 Annie Hall,
29,30, 39,70,86,90,93,
107,180 Antonioni,
Michelangelo, 40, 51-52,
199
Apocalypse Now, 107,259 Apollo
13,64,102,209-10,246 Aristotle,
3,22,30,43, 54, 161 Art of Dramatic
Writing, The (Egri), 1 Art of Fiction,
The (James), 43,44 As Good as It
Gets, 68-69 Astin, Sean, 24 Axelrod,
George, 136

Index
camera instructions, 163-64,217-19
camera (screenplay) terms, 224-25
Cameron, James, 13,186,189,267-68,
276
Campbell, James, 46,155,160,161
Capote, Truman, 38
Capra, Frank, 3
Caro, Niki, 86
Carola (Renoir), 6, 59
Casablanca, 93,160-61,165,166
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 269
Cercone, Janus, 13
Chandler, Raymond, 93,108
characters(s), 2,3, 32,33,43-58
action and, 32,33,41,47, 55,69,70,
81,83,206,307 attitude, 63,6768,81 author vs., 50 biography, 4951,55-57 building, 59-73,89,1089 characterization vs., 55 conflicts
revealed visually, 48 diagrams,
40,48, 55,79 dialogue, 39, 7273,244-45 dramatic need,
25,39,40-41, 62,
63-65,89,136,205 exercise:
creating a character, 74,
75-88 exercise: creating a
character
biography, 57-58 exercise: freeassociation writing,
52
exterior life, 48,51-55, 79,89 four
essential qualities of, 63 heroic,
160-61 hero's journey, 46,152,155
incident and, 44-46,56,70,129
interior life, 45,48-51,89 main,
26,47-48,107, 137,188,208 major,
48

Broyles, William, Jr., 64,209

Buchner, Georg, 5
Buchwald, Art, 295-96
Bullitt, 40,189
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,
35,47-48,86,93,181,190,
266-67

INDEX

Barry Lyndon, 186

Basic Instinct, 127,128-30,137,138
Bass, Ron, 186
Beals, Jennifer, 127
Beattie, Stuart, 35,170,186,261-62,
274, 307
Beatty, Warren, 34,35,98
Becket, 204
beginning (opening), 18,21,31, 8990,97,98-99,144,268 action
sequence, 107, 128,187 dramatic
sequence, 107, 187 endings and,
90-91,99-104 inciting incident,
130 visual grabber, 128,130
Benchley, Peter, 97
Bentley, Wes, 23
Benton, Robert, 34
Bergman, Ingrid, 161
Bernheim, Alain, 295-96
Bernstein, Carl, 266
Bhagavad Gita, 153,161, 304
Bill, Tony, 11
Birch, Thora, 23
Bite the Bullet, 38
Black Hawk Down, 13
Blake, Michael, 64
Blanchett, Cate, 26
Blow-Up, 40
Bochco, Steven, 223-24
Bogart, Humphrey, 4,161
Bolt, Robert, 271
Bonnie and Clyde, 34, 35, 86,93
Borgnine, Ernest, 191
Bourne Supremacy, The, 2, 7,40,86,
90,136,138,165,166,188,206,
223,305
Boyens, Philippa, 24,263-65,277-78
Brackett, Charles, 139
Brando, Marlon, 4
Breedlove, Craig, 37-38
Bridge on the River Kwai, 7,130
Bridges, Jeff, 56, 184,218-19
Bridges of Madison County, The, 130,139
Briley, John, 271
Brooks, James L, 68-69,224
Brooks, Richard, 38
Brown, Harry, 246

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