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# Going to the Movies: A Personal Journey Through Four Decades of Modern Film Paperback – October 9, 2001

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    If you want to know what makes a great movie great, get this book!
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2017*

If you like movies... and want to know what makes a movie great, this is the book for you. Amazing stories; couldn't put it down. Also a story about finding your passion in life, no matter what obstacles are thrown in your path. He never intended to be a screenwriting guru!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Syd Field's personal journey through film is illuminating and entertaining.
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2019*

His great passion for cinema is inspiring!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Good teacher
  

*by B***U on Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2001*

I started reading this book yesterday and found that the clarity of the writing and the insight and experiences the author brings to understanding movies have kept from hardly putting this book down. Field's book is useful for both developing screenwriters and avid movie watchers.Because movies are really the popular literature of the 21st century (despite the number of bad flicks produced every year), it's important that we gain a better appreciation of how the movies tell stories and how they affect us. Field in his own journey to understand movies provides some very good insight.By chapter 12 of his journey he shows his talent as a teacher, script reader and writer, and a lover of movies. In this chapter he breaks down the classic film "Chinatown," showing how what he calls Plot Points are used to set up and move dramatic parts of a movie along. By understanding the form and structure of movies, we can gain a better understanding of a film's narrative and also appreciate when a screen writer and director have produced a well crafted movie.Using Field's insight, we as movie goers get beyond it was a great movie because its action, star appeal, or drama. We begin to critically reflect on how the actions, words, and images tell the story in a film. We can appreciate what the writer and director do to the set up the context for the story and take us through the middle (what Field calls the confrontation) and the end (the resolution) of a film.(The rest of the book goes how to examine contemporary films like Pulp Fiction, explaining how Tarantino creates such memorable characters.)Now  when I happen to see video or DVD more than once, I can apply what I'm learning from Field to better appreciate the art of a film. I think  I'll think also read his other popular book, Four Screenplays, for futher insight.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Going to the Movies: A Personal Journey Through Four Decades of Modern Film
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- Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay: Thelma & Louise, Terminator 2, The Silence of the Lambs, and Dances with Wolves

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