William Goldman (1931–2018)
Forfatter af The Princess Bride
Om forfatteren
William Goldman was born in Highland Park, Illinois on August 12, 1931. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Oberlin College and a master's degree from Columbia University. He began his writing career in 1957 and wrote his first screenplay Masquerade in 1965. During his lifetime, he vis mere wrote more than 20 screenplays and over 20 novels. He wrote the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Misery, A Bridge Too Far, The Stepford Wives, and Chaplin. He adapted three screenplays from his own novels including The Princess Bride, Marathon Man, and Heat. His other novels included The Temple of Gold, No Way to Treat a Lady, Adventures in the Screen Trade, Hype and Glory, and Which Lie Did I Tell. He sometimes wrote under pseudonyms during his career including S. Morgenstern and Harry Langlaugh. He won three Lifetime Achievement Awards for Screenwriting, including the 1985 Laurel Award for Lifetime Achievement in Screenwriter. He won two Screenwriter of the Year Awards and two Academy Awards, one for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the other for All the President's Men. He also won an English Academy Award. He died from colon cancer and pneumonia on November 16, 2018 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Serier
Værker af William Goldman
The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure (2013) — Forfatter — 652 eksemplarer
Wait Till Next Year: The Story of a Season When What Should've Happened Didn't, and What Could've Gone… (1988) 34 eksemplarer
The novels of William Goldman : boys and girls together, marathon man, and the temple of gold. (2017) 5 eksemplarer
All the President's Men: The Screenplay 4 eksemplarer
The Princess Bride Screenplay 3 eksemplarer
The Stepford Wives: The Screenplay 2 eksemplarer
Misery: Based on the Novel by Stephen King 2 eksemplarer
Aventures d'un scénariste à Hollywood 1 eksemplar
The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1 eksemplar
Duel Scene [from the Princess Bride] 1 eksemplar
True Love and High Adventure 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Swords and Sorcerers: Stories from the Worlds of Fantasy and Adventure (2002) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
The Princess Bride Booklet (Criterion Collection 948) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Goldman, William Weil
- Andre navne
- MORGENSTERN, Simon (pseudonym)
LONGBAUGH, Harry (pseudonym)
GOLDMAN, William W.
GOLDMAN, William - Fødselsdato
- 1931-08-12
- Dødsdag
- 2018-11-16
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Dødssted
- New York, New York, USA
- Dødsårsag
- cancer (colon)
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
Highland Park, Illinois. USA - Uddannelse
- Oberlin College (BA|1952 - English)
Columbia University (MA|1956) - Erhverv
- playwright
novelist
screenwriter - Relationer
- Goldman, James (brother)
- Organisationer
- Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
Mystery Writers of America
US Army - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Academy Award for Best Screenplay (1969)
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (1976)
Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (1985)
Edgar Award (1967 and 1979)
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Discussions
Joe's Book Cafe 2016 Door 18 i 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (august 2016)
A particular paperback edition of "Princess Bride" i Name that Book (juli 2015)
Princess Bride question i Children's Fiction (februar 2011)
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Barely 3 stars. Loved the movie, but the book bugged me with its ridiculously long intro & mostly silly asides. The movie had heart, the book tried too hard to be clever. Couldn't bring myself to read the Buttercup's Baby addition.
Up to the start of chapter 1 it is a stream of consciousness narrative. Then it got interesting. It has been a long time since I read an adventure. This one got me engrossed. I skimmed the editorial notes.
My children watched the video about 15 years ago.
My children watched the video about 15 years ago.
One of my all-time favorite books. I can read this every year and not get tired of it. If you love the movie, you'll love the book more ... they had to leave stuff out of the movie.
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As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that his dad left the boring parts out, and only the "good parts" reached his ears. So he decides to bring that joy to a new generation of readers, and abridge Morgenstern's work, leaving only the good parts.
Charming and enjoyable, of course, particularly the famous extended sequence where the masked man in black fights Inigo Montoya, Fezzik and Vizzini one after the other. Those scenes are truly a highlight of swashbuckling adventure, even if it's a parody. But it's a very fond parody, as the best parodies usually are.
I was surprised by the framing device, with the author's digressions about S. Morgenstern, the book he was adapting, his fictional family and the writing business. They were funny, original and interesting, but also surprisingly bitter at times, in a tone that is not that suited for child readers. His loveless family, for example (although I suppose most of it would go over the head of child readers).
If you have 30th anniversary edition my advice is to skip the 30th and 25th anniversary introductions, and the Buttercup's Baby teaser chapter. Take into account they are not part of the ori9ginal book. While they are funny extras, I think when considered as part of the book they are a bit too much William Goldman talking, and tip the balance away from the adventure. The book works better if you think of those as optional extra content, like the extras in a DVD, and not as part of the main experience. Read them later of you want (read first the 25th anniversary introduction and then the 30th anniversary introduction). And if you completely skip Buttercup's Baby you don't lose much.… (mere)