A Hard Day's Night: Music on Film Series (Music On Filments) - Softcover

Morton, Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879103884 ISBN 13: 9780879103880

Verlag: Limelight Editions, 2011

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Book by Morton Ray

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(Music On Filments). A Hard Day's Night: Music on Film Series is the story of the making of the greatest rock-and-roll movie of all time. Beginning with introductions to the film's stars chronicling their rise from a raggedy teenage skiffle band to the biggest pop act in the world the book goes on to tell how the American film company United Artists wanted to make a quick, low-budget movie starring the Fab Four so its record division could put out a motion picture soundtrack album full of new Beatles songs, in order to allow the studio to cash in on the incredible wave of Beatlemania then sweeping the planet. Director Richard Lester, producer Walter Shenson, and screenwriter Alun Owen were hired to churn out just another cheap exploitation film, but instead used the opportunity to create a startlingly fresh and original movie that broke new ground both in subject matter (instead of simply following genre tradition and sticking the band in some corny made-up plot, they had the Beatles play themselves in a narrative based on their own incredible real-life experiences) and in form (Lester's inspired, surrealist approach to the film's musical numbers kicked off the entire music video revolution). Covered is the film's frantic six-week shoot, the lively recording sessions that resulted in seven great new Beatles songs, and how both the film and the album met with great critical and popular success.

Biografía del autor:

Ray Morton (Los Angeles, CA) is the author of King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon from Fay Wray to Peter Jackson; Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Making of Steven Spielberg's Classic Film; and Amadeus: Music on Film. A graduate of New York University and Pepperdine University, Morton is a senior writer and columnist for Script magazine and also works in Hollywood as a story consultant and script analyst.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Limelight Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0879103884
• ISBN 13: 9780879103880
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 154