– Hvis du lurer på hvordan de store blockbusterne på 80-tallet ble produsert, er dette boka for deg. Det handler om han som på mange måter definerte 'high concept'-filmene - Don Simpson. Simpson jobbet opprinnelig som development executive i Paramount, og gjorde seg bemerket med An officer and a gentleman, før han fikk sparken med en beskjeden sluttpakke. Han tok med seg et prosjekt ingen andre hadde tro på - 'Flashdance', allierte seg med den noe mer jordnære Jerry Bruckheimer, og satte i gang. Så startet eventyret. Etter Flashdance kom Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun og Days of Thunder som perler på en snor. Fet handling, fete actionsekvenser og fet musikk var en killer-kombinasjon som forandret action-filmen for alltid.
Så kom nedturen, og mye av boka handler Simpsons mørkere sider med kokain, prostitusjon og generelt selv-destruktiv oppførsel. Likte du You'll never eat lunch in this town again av Julia Phillips (Simpsons 70-tallsparallell) vil du også like denne!
High Concept
Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess
Using the life and career of Don Simpson as a point of departure, "High Concept" takes readers on a riveting journey inside the Hollywood of the 1980s and 90s. For over two decades, Simpson was Hollywood's reigning bad boy, yet through the same period he and his partner, Jerry Bruckheimer were the most successful independent producers in the Hollywood history. Les mer
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Using the life and career of Don Simpson as a point of departure, "High Concept" takes readers on a riveting journey inside the Hollywood of the 1980s and 90s. For over two decades, Simpson was Hollywood's reigning bad boy, yet through the same period he and his partner, Jerry Bruckheimer were the most successful independent producers in the Hollywood history. The revelations in "High Concept" are astounding! Through intensive research Fleming has created a dramatic tale of the rise of the key players and how the Don Simpson way became the Hollywood way. Through an interwoven narrative of the decadence and greed, hypocrisy and hysteria, profligacy and moral emptiness of the key power brokers, Fleming returns to the core concept of excess and how it continues to drive Hollywood.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 304
- ISBN
- 9780747542629
- Utgivelsesår
- 1999
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Om forfatteren
Charles Fleming has reported exclusively on the business of Hollywood for over ten years, as staff writer for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Variety and Newsweek. He is the author of You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again and You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again. He lives in Los Angeles.
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