I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out Review

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By Rona Edwards and Monika Skerbelis
Review by Pi Ware
"I Liked It, Didn't Love It" is not a book--as the title might suggest--about improving your script so that people will love it. Rather, the book is a guide through the bureaucracy of Hollywood story development. Authors Rona Edwards and Monika Skerbelis have developed and sold screenplays for the last 15 years, and while they clearly understand the social networking and complex hierarchy of the story department, their most impressive credit is a Patrick Swayze trucker movie, "Black Dog". All of which highlights the absurdity of the Hollywood machine:college-educated people compete fiercely to spend millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours working and reworking films that, in the end, serve only to cheapen human experience, dilute artistic movements and defy common sense.
But there is more to the Hollywood machine than absurdity. There has always been--and will continue to be--great cinema born of L.A. And since the time of Thomas Edison, the story department has served as the solid foundation for L.A.'s studio filmmakers. "I Liked It, Didn't Love It" dissects and displays that mysterious foundation. The book takes you on the journey from pitch to production, and all the meetings in between. Although the majority of the text is a dry breakdown of jobs and their responsibilities, Edwards and Skerbelis spice up the read with quotes, cartoons and historical documents such as Jerome Lachenbruch's 1922 article, "What's Wrong With Your Photoplay Story?"
If you're looking to get a job in Hollywood development, this book is a must-read. If you're a writer with a script heading into the Hollywood machine, it's a helpful heads-up of what to expect. But as an independent filmmaker, you may find the endless interworkings of assistants, interns, agents and executives symptomatic of Hollywood's wasteful fascination with business over art.

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