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| 3 Screenplays In Search of a Lens: Money-Making Scripts that Weren't Produced | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Taylor
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2946271
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 511
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0595120679
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780595120673
ASIN: 0595120679
Publication Date: September 5, 2000
Release Date: September 5, 2000
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Product Description
Screenwriter Richard Taylor presents three money-making screenplays:American Mythic marries the adventure of the 19th Century American West with a tale of the British Raj in India. Colonel Casper Wingate, Chief of Scouts of the fabled 11th United States Cavalry, is forced to retire. After performing one last heroic act, Wingate takes his half-breed son Snowfox, who questions why Europeans look down on native peoples, and his former Sergeant Major, Keogh, who has been a second father to the boy, and travels to India to visit his daughter, who has married an officer of the British Army. But he finds that his son-in-law has been killed by revolutionaries, and his daughter kidnapped. To save her, Wingate, Snowfox and Keogh must put on their leathers once again...Unknown Causes finds tabloid writer Tom McQuay coming to the aid of Allison Quigley, whose father has disappeared in the modern west. Their quest takes them though the nebulous mystery of cattle mutilations and leads them, finally, to confront the real cause of the phenomenon - not UFOs, not cultists, but something worse, and far more dangerous.Psyche is a modern day retelling of the vampire legend. But instead of blood, this vampire drinks fear.
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 It's Like Going To A Triple Feature That Never Was February 19, 2001
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I actually didnOt buy this book, but IOm going to. It was loaned to me by a friend. IOve purchased other books containing produced scripts, and IOve downloaded them from the internet, but this was the first time that I got a chance to read screenplays that were successful enough for a production company to pay for, but werenOt produced for some reason.Richard Taylor, the author, is not a big-name screenwriter, as he points out in his foreward. HeOs very experienced in the way Hollywood works, though, and he tells a number of stories about his experiences that I found enlightening. He answers the one question IOve heard aspiring screenwriters ask the most, about having material stolen. HeOs had several screenplays ripped off and provides advice about what to do when that happens. He also throws in a little philosophy about it, too. Of the three screenplays, I liked American Mythic the best. ItOs better than most of the produced screenplays IOve read. Actually, on second thought, itOs the best script IOve ever read. Psyche has a great beginning and some good moments, although it lacks enough action for todayOs audiences. ItOs a little too people-oriented. Unknown Causes shows its television pilot origins. The author says that Unknown Causes was ripped off for a major feature film, but he only hints about which movie that was. If youOre a screenwriter want-to-be, or someone with a casual interest in writing scripts or in Hollywood itself, then IOd say 3 Screenplays is a must read.
 Food for thought. February 7, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Often the focus of screenwriting books is 'how to get your movie made' when, as most pros know, a huge percentage of scripts are purchased and left to languish in a drawer somewhere.That's why it's refreshing to have a book of actual, real-life, purchased scripts to ease the pain a little. After all, if these decent scripts never got made, maybe YOUR stellar idea has a chance- well, at least a chance of an option. Big points to Taylor for keeping the realist point of view alive. And the scripts really aren't that bad, either. I din't find much that other screenwriting books offer, but I think the key element here is a 'killer hook' within the book itself- most Screenplay gurus haven't sold much themselves. Add this one to your collection if you are serious about making it in Hollywood.
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