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Chargement... Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrickpar Frederic Raphael
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Interesting. ( ) I interlibrary loaned this book on a whim after reading a quote from it in another text. When this book arrived a week later, I forgot what the quote was or why I wanted to read this book. But alas, I love Stanley as much as the next guy and I dived right in. It is basically a personal diary of Raphael's cordial but contentious relationship with Kubrick after K. solicited him to write the script for a then unnamed project that would become Eyes Wide Shut. Peter Christopherson once said that anyone who has anything to do with Hollywood is a complete wanker. This more or less proves true in this text, even of talents like K. and R. The process through which a high dollar film is produced is absurd enough to drive most the 99% to armed robbery. Despite these arbitrary machinations, K. does eventually coerce R. into slavishly building a script piece by piece without K. ever showing his thematic intentions or giving up the power of his hand as producer. R. ends up wondering if a year of his life had been wasted, not being sure the film would even be made after so long at the beck and call of K. The rest is history. R. is a polyglot. He possesses old school elite education and old world sense of language. Even his personal reminisces are smoothly rendered with an artisan's hand. (mixed metaphor?) It kind of makes me want to read his novels. Obviously, this book is really only for scholars or hardcore K. or R. fans. How many people have you heard say "I'm a hardcore Frederick Raphael fan!"? Hahahahahaha. R. is a different universe than those kind of people. Though you will find out what it is like to work with K., you really won't find out what any of K.'s thought processes were during the production. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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¿I¿ve never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I¿m a successful film-maker ¿ in that a number of people speak well of me...¿ Stanley Kubrick Frederic Raphael first worked with Stanley Kubrick in the 1970s. Since then he has worked with him at various times but no project has been as intense and demanding as his collaboration with Kubrick on his final film Eyes Wide Shut which was finished just before Kubrick¿s death in March 1999. This memoir will be about this collaboration and will be written in a cinematic form ¿ partly prose, partly film script. It will be a movie on the page and will give the reader a chance to ¿hear¿ the thinking, attitudes and methods of a great director woven with many anecdotes about stars he worked with along the way such as James Mason, Kirk Douglas, Marisa Berenson, Leonard Rossiter, Brando, Gregory Peck and many more. The long conversations between Raphael and Kubrick, usually conducted on the telephone, were not only about the problems concerning the film but also about many other things from Julius Caesar to the Holocaust, the films of Kieslowski and Tarantino. Kubrick was unusually revealing about his early life in the cinema and of the reverses and humiliations which he had to endure. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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