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Sample Book Insights:
#1 Roman Polanski knew that his attraction to Sharon Tate, or any woman, stirred in him feelings of terrible sorrow as ancient as long-lost wars. He knew the reasons behind it, and he didn't like it, but it made sense.
#2 Sharon was a dutiful daughter who loved to cook and help her parents. She was twenty-three when she signed with Ransohoff. She had been seeing someone, Jay Sebring, a hairstylist to the stars, for about three years.
#3 Roman had done acid once or twice. He had a date named Sharon, who was an angel. She was fantastic, and he was in love with her. But he was doomed by the possibility of recurrence, because he knew that could happen again.
#4 Roman's father, Ryszard, moved the family to Kraków in 1936. In 1939, the Germans occupied Warsaw. Roman and his sister clung to their mother, while their father did nothing. -
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#1 The basketball was a Keaton prop for years to come. In 1899, the family's first paid engagement as a trio at the Wonderland Theater in Wilmington, Delaware, Buster got laughs by bouncing the ball off his father's head.
#2 Buster's life as a performer and creator was extremely successful for the first three decades of the new century, catapulting his family from the greenhorn fringes of the entertainment industry to its topmost tiers in a remarkably short span of time.
#3 As the nineteenth century came to an end, child development was becoming more and more of a concern for governments and private organizations. Children were beginning to be seen as small, still-growing beings who were entitled to some degree of protection from both industrial and domestic harm.
#4 The moral contiguity between the suffering of children and that of animals was heavily emphasized in the media coverage of the Mary Ellen Wilson case. The girl was seen as both a helpless little girl and a homeless beast, and was given the same rights as a domestic animal. -
Summary of Kyle Buchanan's Blood, Sweat & Chrome
Everest Media
- Everest media llc
- 27 Mars 2022
- 9781669368663
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#1 In September 2012, the movie Mad Max: Fury Road was filming in the Namib Desert. It was behind schedule and over budget, and its lead, Tom Hardy, often failed to show up to set. Warner Bros. head Jeff Robinov threatened to shut down the film early, and eventually Miller was forced to choose between the chase scene or the beginning and end of the film.
#2 Miller's film is a masterpiece, and it is subversive in the way it tackles up-to-date issues like environmental collapse, female empowerment, and resource hoarding by the rich.
#3 Mad Max: Fury Road is a movie that should not exist. It's the fourth film in a long-running franchise, yet it was hailed by critics as one of the most original movies ever made. It's a big-studio action movie, yet it was nominated for Best Picture and won several Oscars.
#4 Miller's film is a engine of pure cinema. It is surreal, over-the-top, and full of action. It makes you feel more alive just watching it, and it has never gone away as I've watched it over and over again. -
Summary of Paul Fischer's The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures
Everest Media
- Everest media llc
- 13 Mai 2022
- 9798822509849
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#1 The train to Paris, which was expected at 2:37 p. m. , arrived five minutes late. Louis Le Prince, Albert's brother, had come to visit him. He had been working on a moving picture machine, and he would soon bring it back to the United States with him.
#2 Louis and Albert were not very comfortable together. They would often discuss finances, which neither had much of. Louis was sure the motion picture device would change all of this.
#3 Louis and Albert had been friends for nearly 20 years, and they had traveled to France together. They had agreed to meet again in Paris for the journey back to England. But Louis did not appear. The Wilsons boarded the ferry alone, assuming Louis was still with Albert in Burgundy.
#4 Le Prince's wife, Lizzie, waited on the Battery Park waterfront for her husband to return. He had been away for three years, working on a motion picture camera and projector in England. -
Summary of Gene Wilder's Kiss Me Like A Stranger
Everest Media
- Everest media llc
- 23 Avril 2022
- 9781669388012
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#1 I was very nervous when I went to see Margie Wallis, and I couldn't bring myself to look at her while I was explaining my situation. I was thinking about a 15-year-old girl named Seema Clark while I was talking about my mother and doctors and heart attacks.
#2 I was so embarrassed to tell Margie that I had kissed Seema, my sister, on the breast. I was afraid she would think I was like all the other boys, and that she would not want to be with me anymore. -
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#1 The elder Zanuck, Darryl, was chairman of the board of directors of the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and the Studio's Los Angeles-based executive vice president in charge of world-wide production. He was also wearing sunglasses and smoking a large black cigar.
#2 The turnaround of the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation interested me, as it seemed to demonstrate the modus operandi of all studios, and the ethic of the motion picture people.
#3 The motion picture ethic affects not only movie people but almost everyone living in the United States today. By adolescence, children have been programmed with a set of responses and life lessons learned mostly from movies, television, and the recording industry.
#4 Richard Zanuck, the head of Fox, is a traffic manager. He does not assemble a package of story, talent, director, and producer, but rather is presented with one, take it or leave it. If he takes, which means putting up the money and providing the facilities, he risks losing his job. -
Summary of Viki King's How to Write a Movie in 21 Days
Everest Media
- Everest media llc
- 21 Juin 2022
- 9798822537415
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#1 This book is not about writing, but about living. It will help you find your light from within, and when you turn it on, you'll love what you write.
#2 Viki King's How to Write a Movie in 21 Days is a book that I remember reading when I was a graduate of the School of Cinema at Southern Illinois University. It was full of useful screenwriting know-how and practical, get-started-today exercises, written in a friendly and forward style that grabbed me and challenged me to stop waiting and start writing.
#3 I found Viki through her first book, which is a collection of her speeches. She is Oracle. Muse. Mythologist. Healer. Best-selling author. Thought-leader. Innovator. Visionary. She helps me understand my history when I have an issue. -
Summary of Melissa Maerz's Alright, Alright, Alright
Everest Media
- Everest media llc
- 21 Juin 2022
- 9798822537361
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Sample Book Insights:
#1 The Dazed and Confused crew was a group of friends who worked together on the film. They are: Lisa Bruna, casting assistant; Jonathan Burkhart, first assistant camera; John Cameron, first assistant director; Peter Carlson, former reporter for the Washington Post; Jay Clements, Huntsville High School alum; Shavonne Conroy, Huntsville High School alum; and Kahane Cooperman, director of the behind-the-scenes documentary Making Dazed.
#2 Brett Davis, Valerie DeKeyser, Scott Dinger, Don Dollar, and Katherine Dover all worked on the film Dazed and Confused.
#3 Nina Jacobson, Robert Janecka, and Katy Jelski were the producers of Dazed and Confused.
#4 There were many alumni from Huntsville High School in the film industry, including directors Jason Reitman and Melina Root.
