Ce scénariste, réalisateur et producteur est connu pour sa capacité à créer des expériences cinématographiques épiques et visuellement saisissantes. Son travail explore souvent des archétypes puissants et des dynamiques de pouvoir, examinant les thèmes du conflit et de l'héroïsme avec une voix narrative distinctive. Il a laissé une marque indélébile dans le cinéma à travers ses créations mémorables. Son art réside dans la construction d'histoires dramatiques et captivantes qui résonnent auprès du public.
The book delves into the behind-the-scenes journey of Francis Ford Coppola's groundbreaking film, Apocalypse Now, which premiered as a 'work in progress' at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. It explores the creative challenges, artistic vision, and the tumultuous production process that defined the film's development, offering insights into Coppola's filmmaking process and the cultural impact of this cinematic landmark.
Deluxe Hardcover edition, featuring a photo insert, surfing map of Southern California, 8 pages of the original script to the film Big Wednedsday, essays by Roger McGrath, Tatsuo, Don James, and Peter Townend, as well as John Milius's original pitch letter to Lynn Nesbit, a surf term glossary, and new afterword! Big Wednesday, based on the cult 1978 film by the same name, follows three California beach buddies begin to realize there is more to life than waxing down their surfboards as they ditch their alcoholic and unruly ways to go fight in the Vietnam War. When they reunite ten years later, they find that things in Malibu are much different after fighting a war.
It's 2027. America has fallen to a savage occupation by the nuclear armed Greater Korean Republic. The US is a bleak landscape of walled towns and abandoned suburbs. A police state where high school stadiums have become detention centers, and shopping malls shelter armoured attack vehicles.
Ruth Hadley, a young Wolverhampton woman, died in 1908 from a gunshot to the head. Her lover Edward Lawrence was acquitted of her murder, though many thought he was lucky to get away scot-free. Despite heavy drinking, disreputable behaviour and bankruptcy, Lawrence still lived in apparent respectability. Victorian attitudes to crime laid bare.
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Der abgehalfterte Reporter Ben Walker erlebt den dramatischen Fall der USA nach einer Invasion durch das vereinte Korea. Nach einem verheerenden Cyberangriff und einem elektromagnetischen Puls organisiert er einen Piratensender, um die US-Truppen im Widerstand mit Informationen zu versorgen – doch die Invasoren sind ihm auf der Spur.
