Movie Speak How to Talk Like You Belong on a Film Set

Name: Movie Speak How to Talk Like You Belong on a Film Set
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ISBN: 9780761143598

ISBN-10: 0761143599

ISBN-13: 9780761143598

Edition: 2009

Authors: Tony Bill

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A Lewinsky? A futz? A cowboy? A Groucho? A Brodkin? A Double Brodkin? The Castle Rock Rule? The phrase "Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt"? Without the vivid, fascinating, and often hilarious secret language of moviemaking, much of it rooted in movie history, films could never get made. An oral tradition gathered and passed down for more than a hundred years, the language of moviemaking, like other secret lexicons, is the only accepted way of communicating on a set--and is all but unknown to the outside world. Technical, odd, colorful, mysterious, the working language of movies sheds light not only on the hugely complex process of making a film, but on the invisible hierarchies of the set, the…

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List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/8/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 4.55" wide x 6.40" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Tony Bill started out in Hollywood as an actor, became an Oscar-winning producer (The Sting), and then a director for film (My Bodyguard, Five Corners, Untamed Heart, Flyboys, and more) and television (Truman Capote's "One Christmas," Harlan County War, Pictures of Hollis Woods). He teaches and lectures widely on film and lives with his family in the oldest house in Venice, California.