I love #books that tell the story about making a #movie.
For example:
Lillian Ross's 'Picture' about the making of The Red Badge of Courage
Katharine Hepburn's 'The Making of the African Queen: Or How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind'
Both coincidentally involving director John Huston.
With Oppenheimer coming out soon on streaming, check out "Unleashing Oppenheimer: Inside Christopher Nolan's Explosive Atomic-Age Thriller' by Jada Yuan
It is a bit spoilerish so maybe read it after you see the movie. For example, she goes into a lot of detail about how Nolan constructed the story from source material. Also an excellent #filmmaker guide. #books#movies#film
Passengers (2016): The Avalon, art by production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas
“I thought, what would happen if we took the donut and connected it to a series of elongated, pod-like shapes, so that it almost looked like one of those electricity-generating wind turbines?" (Wired) #scifi#movie#spaceship#conceptart#passengers#avalon
@colinchick@weirdadmiral@TheSpaceshipper Interesting, thanks. I read the book years ago and I was/am sure that Orson wrote in the intro that he had done the book then worked on the screenplay. Happy to be corrected, thanks again.
The ship in this movie is super underrated. Everyone forgets about it because so many memorable parts of the movie take place in the interior of the ship.
Do I rate this based on the present (2023) or when I first saw this in 1994? I guess the latter, so it will be fair, an 8 out of 10. Many are raising and giving bad reviews about this show, but I think it is unfair. This was an early 1990s movie. Movies people are rating today will be just as a “bad” as they described 30 years from now.
That out of the way. It was nostalgic, re-watching this 29 years later. I was reminded of how people think of time travel back then, with not so much a worry about the grandfather paradox, and more about ripples in time.
We've come a long way, not just in movie making, storytelling, but also in how we perceive time and time travel. Yet, the ideas from the 20th Century is as valid today as it was before, only better and more mind-boggling.
If they reboot this, either as a new movie or a TV series, I wonder how it will be reinterpreted. Or maybe, one just have to watch the Korean TV sci-fi “Sisyphus: The Myth” to have a glimpse of what it can be. ^_~
@youronlyone@films@film@movies@movies I guess the complexity of human relationships will never change, which is why Shakespeare continues to resonate.
Lesson there for me: Build your plot on top of human-human relationships and conflict, not the other way round.
I think it's why #Kdrama is popular these days, they focus on human-human relationships in every story they create. Like, yes, Shakespeare. It isn't about immersion; it's about resonating with your audience.
A couple nights ago I watched The Great Silence and holy hell is that a damn good western. I get why it wasn't released in the US at the time, but it is GOOD. #western#movie#movies
When you can hear Taylor Swift singing in the auditorium next to the one you're watching KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON in..
Like Martin Scorsese intended.