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10 best books like American Beauty: The Shooting Script (Alan Ball): Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay, The Matrix: The Shooting Script, Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay and the Story, Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint, Being John Malkovich, Clerks & Chasing Amy, Fargo, Lolita: The Screenplay, Magnolia: The Shooting Script, Good Will Hunting

Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay
AuthorMarc Norman
ISBN0786884851
For years I avoided Shakespeare in Love, mostly because I find Gwyneth Paltrow insufferable. I finally watched the film earlier this year, and over a decade after everyone else, I get why this film was such a big deal. It's beautiful and smart and funny and all of the best of what Hollywood aspires to be....
The Matrix: The Shooting Script
AuthorLana Wachowski
ISBN1557044902
4 stars. This was awesome. The Matrix trilogy are some of my all time favorite films so to find this screenplay was pretty cool. It's such an innovative and iconic sci-fi series and it's impossible to deny it's impact. The Wachowski's completely changed the game with these films and the way stories can...
Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay and the Story
AuthorWilliam Gibson
"I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though,...
Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint
AuthorSpike Lee
ISBN0671682652
The phenomenon of Spike Lee continues with this revealing and engaging look at his outstanding career, his creative process, and the screenplay for his dynamic movie Do The Right Thing. Spike Lee burst full formed into the screen world with his award-winning, commercially successful independent...
Being John Malkovich
AuthorCharlie Kaufman
ISBN0571205860
What do you get when a down-on-his-heels puppeteer working as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a Manhattan office building discovers a secret portal into the brain of John Malkovich? Hilarity, drama, and perhaps the most unique film of the 90s. Being John Malkovich, which stars John...
Clerks & Chasing Amy
AuthorKevin Smith
ISBN0786882638
Here in one volume are two screenplays by Kevin Smith, one of today's most original filmmakers. Clerks was the independent film success story of 1994, winning the Prix de la Jeunesse and the International Critics Week Award at Cannes, and the Filmmakers' Trophy at Sundance. Set in the everyday world...
Fargo
AuthorJoel Coen
ISBN0571179630
Fargo (Fargo, Script), Ethan Coen
Jerry Lundergaard is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into serious debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs to kidnap his wife. Jerry plans to get his rich father-in-law to pay the ransom--half of the money will be used to pay the...
Lolita: The Screenplay
AuthorVladimir Nabokov
ISBN0679772553
As it charts the hypnotized progress of Humbert Humbert, a hypercivilized and amoral European emigre, into the orbit of a treacherously lovely and utterly unimpressionable preteen, Lolita: A Screenplay gleefully demolishes a host of stereotypes - sexual, moral, and aesthetic. Not least among...
Magnolia: The Shooting Script
AuthorPaul Thomas Anderson
ISBN1557044090
Magnolia reads like a collection of prayers.
Unimpeachable logic.
Loss and longing woven beautifully into a blended metaphor.
I never turn away the chance to live within the allegory of these characters lives for a couple of hours. The same joy/ fulfillment invades me when I watch Dr....
Good Will Hunting
AuthorMatt Damon
As director Gus Van Sant observes in the introduction to Matt Damon's and Ben Affleck's screenplay Good Will Hunting, the two young actors somewhat resemble the characters they play in the film: they're best friends, and Affleck (who plays Chuckie) habitually chauffeurs Damon (Will), who doesn't...
Little Miss Sunshine: The Shooting Script
AuthorMichael Arndt
ISBN1557047707
Here is the official screenplay book tie-in to the uproarious American family road comedy. Brazenly satirical yet deeply human, Little Miss Sunshine introduces audiences to one of the most endearingly fractured families in recent cinema history. Meet the Hoovers, a motley six-member family who...
Taxi Driver
AuthorPaul Schrader
ISBN0571203159
1970s New York, and young Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle takes to driving a taxi in search of an escape from his insomnia, his barren apartment and his gnawing sense of self-disgust, which threatens to erupt in revenge against the sordid, unlovely world through which he travels. When his tentative efforts...
Juno: The Shooting Script
AuthorDiablo Cody
ISBN1557048029
Meet Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page), a confidently frank teenage girl who calls the shots with a nonchalant cool and an effortless attitude as she journeys through an emotional nine-month adventure into adulthood. Quick-witted and distinctively unique, Juno walks Dancing Elk High's halls to her own...
Hannah and Her Sisters
AuthorWoody Allen
ISBN0394747496
Jesus, Woody Allen scripts have a helluva lot of description and direction in them!

HANNAH: (eating, nodding) H-H-Hello!
The score of classical music is in time with the following of Lee's stammers:
LEE: (agreeing, dusting, walking over to the piano) So I-I-I was thinking...
HANNAH:...
The Royal Tenenbaums
AuthorWes Anderson
ISBN0571215459
This is the screenplay for the acclaimed film, directed by Wes Anderson. There were three extraordinary children in the Tenenbaum family; Chas Tenenbaum (Ben Stiller) was a financial expert and started buying real estate in his early teens; Margot Tenenbaum (Gwyneth Paltrow) was an acclaimed playwright...
Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
AuthorQuentin Tarantino
ISBN0786881046
Quentin Tarantino - director of "Reservoir Dogs" and writer of "True Romance" - won the Palme d'Or for best film at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival for "Pulp Fiction, " his unique vision of the underworld, starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson, and Harvey Keitel. Taking his...
Almost Famous (Screenplays)
AuthorCameron Crowe
ISBN0571205690
The screenplay of the brilliant new film about rock 'n' roll journalism, from the writer/director of Jerry Maguire.

Inspired by his own start in journalism as a teenage reporter for Rolling Stone, Cameron Crowe has created a coming-of-age story that is both funny and moving—and laced with...
Bird Brain
AuthorGuy Kennaway
ISBN0224093991
I absolutely adored this book. There's a large cast of characters: humans, dogs, a cat, foxes and of course, the pheasants - each of them perfectly drawn and with a place in the fast paced action. The protagonist, the human turned pheasant, Banger, stealthily transforms (emotionally as well as physically!)...
Inception: The Shooting Script
AuthorChristopher J. Nolan
ISBN1608870154
Inception, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s seventh feature film, joins the epic scope of The Dark Knight with the narrative sophistication of Memento. The story of a group of thieves who specialize in invading the mind through one’s dreams, Inception explores the Nolan’s signature...
Brownies
AuthorFira Basuki
ISBN9793600373
Adaptation from movie script by Hanung Bramantyo et.al.

Fira's first movie script adaptation. Love stories between a young urban modern women, Mel with a simple guy who owns a bookshop, Are. Things that glue them together is loving of Brownies. Making Brownies seems so complicating for Mel,...
The Shawshank Redemption: The Shooting Script
AuthorFrank Darabont
ISBN1557042462
This modern film classic, an extraordinary tale of hope and survival inside a maximum security prison, follows the complex twenty-year relationship between two convicts who have little in common—except friendship. Based on the novella Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King,...
Pengantin Demos Vol. 3
AuthorEtsuko Ikeda
ISBN9796633671
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