All writing is rewriting. But what do you change, and how do you change it? All screenplays have problems. They happened to Die Hard: With a Vengeance and Broken Arrow-and didn't get fixed, leaving the films flawed. They nearly shelved Platoon-until Oliver Stone rewrote the first ten pages and created a classic. They happen to every screenwriter. But good writers see their problems as a springboard to creativity. Now bestselling author Syd Field, who works on over 1,000 screenplays a year, tells you step-by-step how to identify and fix common screenwriting problems, providing the professional secrets that make movies brilliant-secrets that can make your screenplay one headed for success...or even Cannes. Learn how to:

•Understand what makes great stories work

•Make your screenplay work in the first ten pages, using Thelma & Louise and Dances With Wolves as models

•Use a "dream assignment" to let your creative self break free overnight

•Make action build character, the way Quentin Tarantino does

•Recover when you hit the "wall"-and overcome writer's block forever

悉德•菲爾德（Syd field），享譽全球的著名編劇、製片人、教師、演講人，是諸多暢銷書的作者。他的《電影劇本寫作基礎》自1982年首版以來已被譯成24種語言，並被全球超過400所大學選作教材。三十幾年來，他一直是好萊塢電影公司——羅蘭•約菲（Roland Jaffe ）的電影公司，二十世紀福剋斯，迪斯尼影視，環球影業，哥倫比亞三星影業的劇本審稿人和編劇顧問。他是首位進入美國電影編劇協會編劇名人堂的成員。

譯者簡介

鍾大豐，北京電影學院國際交流學院院長,教授，博士生導師。1985年1月中國藝術研究院研究生院電影係畢業。主要著作論文有《中國電影史》《論影戲》等。

鮑玉珩，博士,教授,原美國北卡羅萊納州A&T 州立大學藝術係教授，已獲得終身教授榮譽, 1985年中國藝術研究院研究生院畢業,獲碩士學位，1992年美國俄亥俄州大學藝術學院畢業,獲比較藝術-比較文化學博士學位。著作包括在美國齣版的學術著作8 部，以及《當代好萊塢》《當代美國藝術》《當代美國攝影藝術》等中文著作。