Tom Shone
Forfatter af Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer
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In part the book is a counter-argument to Peter Biskind's 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls' which blames Spielberg and Lucas for the demise of 'quality' filmmaking and the dumb-downing of cinema. Shone takes an even-handed view of their impact, appreciating these films for their own value and how the best of the genre made cinema exciting for audiences, but being criticial of the blockbusters that were poor films. He doesn't, thanfully, try to over-intellectualise any of these films and is just as sceptical of the acedemics who do, as he is of the film snobs who dismiss all of these films.
Like Biskind's book, there are lots of anecdotes about how these films were made. Whilst Spielberg is so normal and decent that he doesn't provide much in the way of drama, James Cameron more than makes up for it.… (mere)