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With the release of "Avatar" in December 2009, James Cameron
cements his reputation as king of sci-fi and blockbuster
filmmaking. It's a distinction he's long been building, through a
directing career that includes such cinematic landmarks as "The
Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss," and the highest grossing movie of
all time, "Titanic." "The Futurist" is the first in-depth look at
every aspect of this audacious creative genius--culminating in an
exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpse of the making of "Avatar," the
movie that promises to utterly transform the way motion pictures
are created and perceived. As decisive a break with the past as the
transition from silents to talkies, "Avatar" pushes 3-D, live
action, and photo-realistic CGI to a new level. It rips through the
emotional barrier of the screen to transport the audience to a
fabulous new virtual world.
With cooperation from the often reclusive Cameron, author Rebecca
Keegan has crafted a singularly revealing portrait of the
director's life and work. We meet the young truck driver who sees
"Star Wars" and sets out to learn how to make even better movies
himself--starting by taking apart the first 35mm camera he rented
to see how it works. We observe the neophyte director deciding over
lunch with Arnold Schwarzenegger that the ex-body builder turned
actor is wrong in every way for the Terminator role as written, but
perfect regardless. After the success of "The Terminator," Cameron
refines his special-effects wizardry with a big-time Hollywood
budget in the creation of the relentlessly exciting "Aliens." He
builds an immense underwater set for "The Abyss" in the massive
containment vessel of an abandoned nuclear power plant--where he
pushes his scuba-breathing cast to and sometimes past their
physical and emotional breaking points (including a white rat that
Cameron saved from drowning by performing CPR). And on the set of
"Titanic," the director struggles to stay in charge when someone
maliciously spikes craft services' mussel chowder with a massive
dose of PCP, rendering most of the cast and crew temporarily
psychotic.
Now, after his movies have earned over $5 billion at the box
office, James Cameron is astounding the world with the most
expensive, innovative, and ambitious movie of his career. For
decades the moviemaker has been ready to tell the "Avatar" story
but was forced to hold off his ambitions until technology caught up
with his vision. Going beyond the technical ingenuity and narrative
power that Cameron has long demonstrated, "Avatar" shatters old
cinematic paradigms and ushers in a new era of storytelling."
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The Futurist" is the story of the man who finally brought movies
into the twenty-first century.
Young Frankenstein was made with deep respect for the craft and
history of cinema-and for the power of a good schwanzstucker joke.
This picture-driven book, written by one of the greatest comedy
geniuses of all time, takes readers inside the classic film's
marvelous creation story via never-before-seen black and white and
color photography from the set and contemporary interviews with the
cast and crew, most notably, legendary writer-director Mel Brooks.
With access to more than 225 behind-the-scenes photos and
production stills, and with captions written by Brooks, this book
will also rely on interviews with gifted director of photography
Gerald Hirschfeld, Academy Award-winning actress Cloris Leachman
and veteran producer Michael Gruskoff.
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