Stephen Rebello

A City Full of Hawks (eBook, PDF)

On the Waterfront Seventy Years Later-Still the Great American Contender

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

"Journalist Rebello delivers a meticulous account of On the Waterfront's bumpy path to the silver screen.... Rebello gamely traces how real-life political drama combined with rank Hollywood gamesmanship to create a classic of American film. Cinephiles will be transfixed." - Publishers Weekly Perhaps no movie has better dramatized the interplay of ambition, corruption, and disappointment in America than On the Waterfront, best captured in the closing "I could've been a contender" speech given by Marlon Brando's character Terry Malloy. A gripping tale about organized crime and dockworkers in New Jersey, it is justifiably remembered today as one of the greatest movies of the twentieth century. This film about internecine power struggles and thwarted ambition had its share of big personalities involved in its making, among them Brando, Elia Kazan, playwright Arthur Miller, screenwriter Schulberg, producer Sam Spiegel, composer Leonard Bernstein, Marilyn Monroe, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Montgomery, Grace Kelly, Aaron Copland, and more. What happened among them, let alone the dramas that were unfolding in their personal lives when they were off set, ironically recalls WHAT Michael Corleone says in one of On the Waterfront's most celebrated descendants, The Godfather: "It's not personal. It's strictly business." But, of course, it's always intensely personal-as this fascinating narrative shows. From creative clashes to the challenges of filming on the Hoboken waterfront to the spectre of anticommunist paranoia that shadowed the movie's creation and reception, this is a revealing look at the making of a genuine cinematic classic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765161333
• Artikelnr.: 74844985

Autorenporträt

Stephen Rebello is a well-known film historian, screenwriter, and commentator. Since the 1990 publication of his first of six books to date, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, published in eight languages worldwide, he has been invited to speak about Hitchcock and his work in England, Japan, China, Italy, and throughout the U.S. Stephen has been interviewed about Hitchcock on Today, Larry King Live, Good Morning, America, and numerous other national TV shows and have recorded three audio commentaries for Hitchcock films on DVD and Blu-ray. He also recorded the audio commentary for the home entertainment release of the 2012 feature film Hitchcock starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, and Scarlett Johansson, which is based on Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho and on which he was a screenwriter. Four of Stephen's acclaimed nonfiction books have documented the making of specific live action or animated films. His coffee table book on the art and commerce of American movie posters Reel Art - Great Posters from the Golden Age of the Silver Screen (Abbeville Press) has won several awards, including a citation by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of the 50 best books ever written about movies. He has also written extensively on films and filmmakers for such magazines and websites as GQ, People, Vibe, Playboy, and Movieline was an editor of the latter three.