I'm listening to a oral history of The Princess Bride and there's the story of a studio exec cautioning Rob Reiner against making the movie by saying "you have to be careful with Bill Goldman scripts, he tricks you with good writing"
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Ohhhh. Link?
aug 13, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
It's a book. Just search for it
aug 13, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm sorry. I heard "listening to" and thought it was a podcast.
aug 13, 2025, 3:50 pm • 0 0 • view
It's an audiobook. goodbooksandgoodwine.com/2016/01/wish...
aug 13, 2025, 5:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you so much.
aug 13, 2025, 5:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I still remember the first time my mom encouraged me to watch Butch Cassidy and the Sunshine Kid, which has memorable lines everywhere, and then I looked at the credits and realized it was also by William Goldman. Suddenly much was explained.
aug 14, 2025, 2:04 am • 1 0 • view
the notion that princess bride was unfilmable is *crazy* to me! i obviously read the novel after seeing the movie, but every page of the novel just completely reads like "the writer was thinking of this as a movie when he wrote this as a book."
aug 13, 2025, 3:58 pm • 2 0 • view
How devious! There are a lot of Hollywood suits that never get duped by good writing, I can guarantee that.
aug 13, 2025, 7:55 pm • 0 0 • view