Even Cowgirls Get the Blues/My Own Private Idaho/2 Screen Plays in 1 Volume - Softcover

Van Sant, Gus; Robbins, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571169201 ISBN 13: 9780571169207

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1993

Synopsis

These two novels have both been made into films. "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" is an epic of cowgirls, FBI agents and ecstatic whooping. "My Own Private Idaho" charts the pilgrimage of a narcoleptic hustler who is searching for his long-lost mother in a world absent of love.

About this title

Review:

Gus Van Sant is fascinated by fanaticism and the isolated societies that fanatics create. My Own Private Idaho, loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry IV plays, is perhaps the most critically acclaimed of his films. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, adapted from the Tom Robbins novel, did not fare well at the box office, but the version printed here is not the one seen in theatres. It is Van Sant's original draft, the cut he had to pare down for general distribution. Rejecting traditional technical markings, dotted by his own personal notes and comments, Van Sant's screenplays are essential companions to his finished films.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0571169201
• ISBN 13: 9780571169207
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 199