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Ladataan... Who the Devil Made It : Conversations with Legendary Film Directors (1997)Tekijä: Peter Bogdanovich
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. The book is a collection of interviews of 16 movie directors that the author knew, and, as a bonus, he discusses the scandals and tribulations of his own life and career in the book’s introduction. The interviews were done at various times between the 1960s and the 1990s; many were previously published as magazines articles. Several of the directors did work in silent films. If you have an interest in movies, the book should be broadly entertaining. Some of the directors' life stories, their revelation of how certain famous scenes were shot, their complaints about their producers and heads of studios, and their stories about actors are often both interesting and amusing. Did you know that Lana Turner was originally cast to play the lead in Anatomy of a Murder, but she refused to wear a pair of slacks that the director, Otto Preminger, had selected? Preminger told her agent that if she didn’t like it, she could turn the picture down. Preminger said that she probably thought he was bluffing, but the role went to Lee Remick. Howard Hawks, while discussing Barbary Coast (1935), commented that it was the first time he had used Walter Brennan, and told the story that a man came up to him in tears after the movie’s preview and said that he didn’t know how to thank Hawks. Hawks didn’t know who he was until Brennan took out his teeth. He had never seen him except in makeup and Brennan was playing (and often played) characters who were older than he was. The directors interviewed are Allan Dwan, Raoul Walsh, Fritz Lang, Josef von Sternberg, Howard Hawks, Leo McCarey, George Cukor, Alfred Hitchcock, Edgar G. Ulmer, Otto Preminger, Joseph H. Lewis, Chuck Jones, Don Siegel, Frank Tashlin, Robert Aldrich, and Sidney Lumet. näyttää 2/2
Right from the jump, Bogdanovich could write about the movies with a cogency that placed him in the top flight of critics, and as an interviewer he has always been without peer. His latest book, Who the Devil Made It, is just further confirmation of a quality he seems to have had since the cradle. When it comes to movies, the master of the medium is often a buff but rarely a scholar – he hasn’t the time, even when he has the inclination – yet Bogdanovich somehow always managed to service his debt to the creativity of his past masters while he was busy with his own: articles and interviews, slim monographs and fat books were all done with manifest love, despite his being in a tearing hurry... He was Hollywood’s Mr Memory even while he was its golden boy. Now that he has become the Man in the Iron Mask, he is free to cultivate the archives at his leisure. Executives who played a part in condemning him to strangle in his own beard might be in for an unpleasant surprise. What makes them pygmies is that there once were giants: it’s a cliché, but on the strength of the documentation assembled in Who the Devil Made It, Bogdanovich looks as if he might raise it to the status of an axiom.
In this chronicle of Hollywood and the art of making movies, Peter Bogdanovich (director, screenwriter, actor and critic) interviews 16 directors, including: Robert Aldrich; George Cukor; Howard Hawks; Alfred Hitchcock; Fritz Lang; Sidney Lumet; Otto Preminger; and Josef von Sternberg. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Did you know that Lana Turner was originally cast to play the lead in Anatomy of a Murder, but she refused to wear a pair of slacks that the director, Otto Preminger, had selected? Preminger told her agent that if she didn’t like it, she could turn the picture down. Preminger said that she probably thought he was bluffing, but the role went to Lee Remick.
Howard Hawks, while discussing Barbary Coast (1935), commented that it was the first time he had used Walter Brennan, and told the story that a man came up to him in tears after the movie’s preview and said that he didn’t know how to thank Hawks. Hawks didn’t know who he was until Brennan took out his teeth. He had never seen him except in makeup and Brennan was playing (and often played) characters who were older than he was.
The directors interviewed are Allan Dwan, Raoul Walsh, Fritz Lang, Josef von Sternberg, Howard Hawks, Leo McCarey, George Cukor, Alfred Hitchcock, Edgar G. Ulmer, Otto Preminger, Joseph H. Lewis, Chuck Jones, Don Siegel, Frank Tashlin, Robert Aldrich, and Sidney Lumet. ( )