Sylvia: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script) - Softcover

Brownlow, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557046158 ISBN 13: 9781557046154

Publisher: Newmarket Press, 2003

Synopsis

This is the story of Ted and Sylvia, a sensual, volatile, and brilliant married couple who emerged as two of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Academy Award-winner Gwyneth Paltrow stars as legendary American author and poet Sylvia Plath, opposite Daniel Craig as British Poet Laureate Edward (Ted) Hughes.
The film begins in 1956. Sylvia is in England on a Fulbright Scholarship when she meets Ted and within four months, they are married. The newly published Ted attracts the attention of the literary world, along with the attentions of admiring women. As the marriage frays, Sylvia's creative impulses surge, and her writing begins to flow forth in unstoppable bursts. "I really feel like God is speaking through me," she exults. Her destiny - and Ted's, inextricably intertwined with hers - is at hand.
In the acclaimed Newmarket Shooting Script format, the book contains an introduction by John Brownlow in which he shares his screenwriting secrets and how he distilled the story of Sylvia and Ted from their poetry and many conflicting biographies. The book also includes a facsimile of the script, a selection of 30 black-and-white movie stills, production notes, short biographies of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and the full cast and crew credits.

About this title

About the Author:

John Brownlow previously directed and produced several acclaimed documentaries for British television, as well as the mini-series School Rules and Canterbury Tales. In 1999, he switched to full-time screenwriting, and Sylvia is his first produced screenplay. Brownlow is also a well-known street photographer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Newmarket Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1557046158
• ISBN 13: 9781557046154
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160