The US screenwriter and Oscar-winner William Goldman is dead. As the “Washington Post” and other media citing gold Mans daughter, reported Jenny, died of the author at the age of 87 from complications of cancer and pneumonia at his home in New York.
Goldman had supplied the template for Hollywood classics such as “The untouchables”, “The Marathon man” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. Director Rob Reiner (“when Harry met Sally”, “Misery”), to be referred to him once as “possibly America’s greatest writer”. Oscar-winner Aaron Sorkin, who wrote the templates for “The Social Network” and “Steve Jobs”, extolling him as the inventor of the modern screenplay. Everything he knew he learned from Goldman, said Sorkin.
Reiner and Sorkin are only two film sizes of many that have mourned the writing genius. Hollywood Director Ron Howard (“A Beautiful Mind”), praised him in a Tweet as “one of the largest and most successful screenwriters of all time”. Horror master Stephen King paid tribute to rich Goldman as “the spirit and talented”. “The script of my book ‘Misery’ was a wonderful thing,” he wrote on Twitter.
Without Goldman would have had a lot of movie stars to to say nothing. In the Watergate Drama “all The President’s men” (1976) he put Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman’s wise words in the mouth. In the psychological Thriller “Misery” (1990) gave Goldman the success of author Paul Sheldon (James Caan) obsessed Fan (Kathy Bates) to the knife. Robert Downey Jr. he left as a “Chaplin” (1992).
First Academy awards missed
His first Oscar Statue for the Western “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969) with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Goldman took not even in person. He had remained “zero chances” of all things, and was the Gala Show. Seven years later, he even stepped on the stage, as his screenplay for “The untouchables”, the highest Milanobet film award won.
Dustin Hoffman in “The Marathon man”
the script wrote to one of the most famous anti-war films “The bridge of Arnheim” (1977). In the Thriller “Marathon man” (1976) and Clint Eastwood’s “Absolute Power” (1997) he forged a complicated political Plots. In the Western spoof “Maverick” (1994), he, Mel Gibson and James Garner as a comic Team. With the “Stepford wives” he ventured in 1975 in the Sci-Fi world, with “Jurassic Park III” (2001) Fantasy Land.
If other authors out of the words, then Goldman, a handle, often used as a “Script Doctor”. So he gave “fierce creatures” (1997) and “Mission Impossible II” (2000) the final touches. The Hollywood Insider took no sheet before the mouth, as he the Duke in the non-fiction books “The Hollywood business” and “Who has lied to you?” the vain and power games of the film industry.
ironically, he coined the famous sentence: “Nobody knows anything”, no one in Hollywood knows anything. “No one has the slightest idea what’s going on for a Film at the end of good,” said Goldman, 2014 in an Interview with “Indiewire”. As a Student, he had absolutely no talent in Writing, claims the success of the author. His first script he read at the age of 33. Because of film school: He was just gone much to the cinema and have fallen in love with in movies.
in 1931, in the U.S. state of Illinois-born author who studied before his Hollywood career literature, wrote 25 years ago, the first of a total of 20 novels. Best known for his Fantasy book “The Princess Bride”, a fantastic fairy tale with giants, princes, and mythical creatures.
in 2015, made Goldman once again to be the old “Misery”-script after the novel by Stephen King and wrote for the Broadway adaptation with Bruce Willis. The pleasure of Writing, he had not lost to old age. Five screenplays he had brought since the 2003 paper, but none of them had been made into a film, said Goldman three years ago, the Entertainment Portal “Vulture.com”. With a stimulus for your own writing pleasure: “a Lot of movies that are made today, not like me.”
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