Joe Eszterhas - On Screenwriting

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Description: Complete program at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=368 Screenwriter and author Joe Eszterhas discusses the writing process, and offers some advice for aspiring screenwriters. ----- Joe Eszterhas, best-selling author and legendary bad-boy screenwriter discusses his new book "The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: the Screenwriter as God!." Mike Ovitz told him his Wilshire Blvd. "foot soldiers" would hunt him down. He's antagonized almost everyone at the top in Tinseltown. And now, Joe Eszterhas tells everything he knows - in brief, quotable bursts - about the business, the history of Hollywood, and how to write screenplays that make millions. Idiosyncratic, gruff and as shaggy as Eszterhas himself, "The Devil's Guide to Hollywood" makes a character/leitmotif of Eszterhas' fellow Hungarian Zsa Zsa Gabor ("Money is like a sixth sense that makes it possible for you to fully enjoy the other five."), and makes the case that Marilyn Monroe was the sharpest tack in Hollywood ("Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents."). Refreshing, dirty, tough, there's no book like it. - Books Inc. Joe Eszterhas has written fifteen films which have made more than a billion dollars at the box office. Among them are Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge, Flashdance, Showgirls, Betrayed, Music Box and F.I.S.T. He is the author of the recent New York Times bestsellers American Rhapsody and Hollywood Animal. In 1975, his second book, Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse, was nominated for the National Book Award. He was a senior editor at Rolling Stone from 1971 to 1975.
Comments
codebreaker2001 ::: Favorites Joe Eszterhas is one of the best screenwriters to talk about what screenwriting is about. I completely agree with what he is saying here. 07-03-18 01:02:33 _____________________________________________________
Netvandal1 ::: Favorites Fantastic advice. Having been to film school, and listening to all the crap about pitching, and the movie business its refreshing to hear Joe tell people to just sit on their butts and write what they love. 07-06-27 11:29:29 _____________________________________________________
karaokematt82 ::: Favorites I'd still like to know Joe's full opinion on "Showgirls." He seems like a very knowledgable screenwriter, and I don't think it was all his fault that the film turned out to be such a dud. 07-07-16 10:58:49 _____________________________________________________
salsburysteakjr ::: Favorites Haha, Joe was SO totally the weakest link of Showgirls. Paul Verhoeven directed it far better then it deserved. Though, actually, I bet Jack Hill woulda directed it great also... 07-08-06 19:14:59 _____________________________________________________
Tarbra ::: Favorites Interesting, I have not only the ability to sit on my butt and write, but also an overwhelming compulsion to do so. I just write what I feel, and what I know about. I completely agree with what Joe Eszterhas has said here. You have to believe in what you write about or you may as well not write at all. Thanks Joe for confirming what I believe in to be right. 07-08-11 15:25:35 _____________________________________________________