Art of Dramatic Writing Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

拉约什·埃格里（Lajos Egri，1888－1967）生于原奥匈帝国的埃格（今匈牙利境内），十岁就写出了一部三幕剧。1908年，埃格里移民美国。一战期间，他加入纽约的左派戏剧组织，成为导演和剧作家，后于20世纪30年代创立写作学校。埃格里同时也是一位新闻工作者，并曾撰写过电视剧本。高远， 2004年毕业于北京电影学院，获硕士学位，现为专职编剧，作品有电视剧《大汉口》等。

出版者:Simon & Schuster

作者:Lajos Egri

页数:304

出版时间:2004

价格:95.58元

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780671213329

图书标签:编剧写作Writing电影UMFILMRHULPMMediaArt

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Lajos Egri examines a play from the inside out, starting with the heart of any drama: its characters. For it is people - their private natures and their inter-relationships - that move a story and give it life. All good dramatic writing depends upon an understanding of human motives. Why do people act as they do? What forces transform a coward into a hero, a hero into a coward? What is it that Romeo does early in Shakespeare's play that makes his later suicide seem inevitable? Why must Nora leave her husband at the end of A Doll's House? These are a few of the fascinating problems which Egri analyzes. He shows how it is essential for the author to have a basic premise - a thesis, demonstrated in terms of human behaviour - and to develop his dramatic conflict on the basis of that behaviour. Premise, character, conflict: this is Egri's ABC. His book is a direct, jargon-free approach to the problem of achieving truth in a literary creation.

读后感

大卫·波德维尔在《好莱坞的叙事方法》中描述过这本书： “为什么好莱坞的编剧们要如此详尽地叙述有缺点的人物？可能是威廉·英奇、帕迪·查耶夫斯基、田纳西·威廉斯的百老汇戏剧，与通俗小说和欧洲艺术电影一起将好莱坞领上了这条道路。两位欧洲戏剧理论家也对此起到了引导...  

人果然还是看到自己想看的。 断断续续读完这本书，开始看时，老犯困，读到后来方能看得进去。翻看自己的笔记，发现其实有关编剧的具体操作的并不多，记下的更多的是，对当下自己剪不出片子的困惑能展开思考一些点。就像作者反复举例强调，也是我深有体会的：任何局部都不能大过...  

知北游： 本书手把手地教你如何写出好的剧本，但是它表达的是写好剧本的充分非必要条件，意即，即使你不遵守其中的若干条规则，一样也可能写出好的，甚至是更好的剧本。 作者将剧本归为了三个要素，分别是前提、人物与冲突，重要性依次递减。作者认为，情节（冲突）在...  

用户评价

The best writing book there is, be it playwriting, screenwriting, or novel-writing. Packed with truths I haven't got a hold on.

三星半 有些观点过于武断和陈旧 但在当时那个年代算是很好的指导类书籍 学到了不少东西 但是书中给出的建议不能照单全收

方法都懂，依然写不出来Play writing的作业_( :3 」∠)_

我就喜欢这种作者说什么话都有理有据不瞎编的书。如果剧作，无论是戏剧，电影还是小说，只能推荐一本书的话，那我就推荐这本。挖到根里了。

The best writing book there is, be it playwriting, screenwriting, or novel-writing. Packed with truths I haven't got a hold on.