Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (611 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0684857081 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The patients and the asylum ilprofessore In the 1970s not only did the patients get to run the asylum known as Hollywood, most were children, if not in age certainly in temperament. The youth of America got to make the movies they wanted to make and see. Some of these young people were genuinely talented,. Jeremy Papp said Great read for anyone interested in films and those involved in them. This book was a fast and enjoyable read. Peter Biskind is able to shed light on the personal lives of the stars that were involved in the cinematic upheaval that was the New Hollywood movement. The book focuses on those directors and producers that helped usher in . "Film History and Gossip in the Last Golden Age of Hollywood - More of the former, less of the latter please!" according to MXI. First, a huge congratulations to the author, Peter Biskind, whose passion and detail-orientation was so evident and in the end gave a rich and insightful look at the transition (rise) of Hollywood from the 60's to 70's and transition (fall) from the '70's to 80's.
After Easy Rider, it was everywhere." GEORGE LUCAS ON STAR WARS: "Popcorn pictures have always ruled. When the low-budget biker movie Easy Rider shocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was born. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls follows the wild ride that was Hollywood in the '70s -- an unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (both onscreen and off) and a climate where innovation and experimentation reigned supreme. MARTIN SCORSESE ON DRUGS: "I did a lot of drugs because I wanted to do a lot, I wanted to push all the way
When Spielberg was making the first true blockbuster, Jaws, he sneaked Lucas in one day when nobody was around, got him to put his head in the shark's mechanical mouth, and closed the shark's mouth on him. Biskind did hundreds of interviews with people who make the president look accessible: Scorsese, Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola, Geffen, Beatty, Kael, Towne, Altman. As Peter Biskind's scathing, funny, wise book demonstrates, they only thought they had escaped. Why? Because once the big names who spilled the beans to Biskind find out that other people spilled an equally piquant quantity of beans, nobody will dare speak to another writer with such candor, humor, and venom again. He also spoke with countless spurned spouses and burned partners, alleged victims of assault by knife, pistol, and bodily fluids. --Tim Appelo