First 62 pages of "WRITING MOVIES FOR FUN AND PROFIT by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant" - http://scr.bi/magGBA

Official Website: http://www.writingmoviesforfunandprofit.com/

The joys of entertaining idiots. :)

Thanks, BMF. Interesting strategy to make the first 62 pages available to readers online for free. Evidently the gold is from P. 63 on!

These guys strike me as terrible doofuses. And they're wrong about the Matrix. On page 9, Trinity contacts Neo and tells him there is a Matrix, but the "Come with us if you want to live" moment doesn't happen until much later, page 24 I think.

And McKee's seminar is about $100 less than they say. It's not the biggest mistake in the world, but two mistakes so confidently (cockily?) delivered in such a short interview is a bit of a turn off.

I love these guys. They will always have a place in my heart for The State.

I just flipped to page ten of my current screenplay and that's where the magic happens—woot.

@Annika They'd probably be the first to agree with you that they're doofuses. However, they've made a living at something a lot of us dream to do. Something can be learned.

As an artsy asshole from Salt Lake, I'll be buying this book.

yeah, on page 9 of the matrix is the "call to adventure" -- but he doesn't answer the call until he "takes the blue pill" on page 25.

... It might be VERY hard to explain Joseph Campell's page 10 call to adventure, and the 15 pages of challenges that lead the hero to answer that call on page 25 in a live 7 minute interview while plugging a book?

She says: "there's a matrix" and for the next 15 pages the heroes tell him: come with me if you want to live. I think they were using shorthand.

as for McKee's seminar, the price ranges from $765, to $1124 (which comes with final draft.)

yeah, they're doofuses, but they're not idiots.

@Anika W.,

If all you got out of that interview was that these guys missed the page on which the inciting incident happened in The Matrix or they were off a couple of bucks on the price of McKee's seminar, you have no chance of making it as a screenwriter.

Why do I say that? Because you are staring at practical, useful, fresh information right in the face, and you can't see it because your preconceived notions are standing in the way.