{"product_id":"9780962990939","title":"Journey South","description":"The saga of the screenplay you're about to read really begins the day that I broke my self-imposed rule about getting involved with \"complicated\" ( i.e. \"serious\" )subject matter in my hit-and-run career as a screenwriter for the movies. I had come to Hollywood in 1949 as an invited author of prize-winning fictions, ---and saw writing for film a good way to subsidize my profound commitment to the art of prose --- having learned that -in the majority of cases,-- the General Motors assembly line model of filmmaking --which Hollywood pioneered,------------(and prospered from!) ---pretty much means that the pervasive confusion-- or collision between \"Art\" and Commerce---- which runs like a Wagnerian leitmotif through many aspects of mass film­ making,-- is apt to be trumped sooner or later by the pluses and minuses of The Bottom Line; thus, anyone foolish enough to take seriously the ongoing rhetorical (off-stage) palaver one tends to keep hearing about the unexploited \"potential\" of film as a medium to plumb the \"enigmatic\" depths of human experience etc..-is eventually going to hit a brick wall, as I witnessed, firsthand, more than once, ........In my particular case, I certainly DID work (under a pseudonym) on some favorite projects of various producers now and then, in both film and television --But on the whole, I simply found it more congenial to my temperament to follow a freewheeling (figurative) surfboarding life as a free lance, where, if you weren't able to reach success (i.e. pay dirt!) on any particular try, you could always try again.","brand":"Other Shores Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49896143028464,"sku":"9780962990939","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780962990939","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}