Author: Steven Travers
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476664250
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
In 1975, after his two Godfather epics, Francis Ford Coppola went to the Philippines to film Apocalypse Now. He scrapped much of the original script, a jingoistic narrative of U.S. Special Forces winning an unwinnable war. Harvey Keitel, originally cast in the lead role, was fired and replaced by Martin Sheen, who had a heart attack. An overweight Marlon Brando, paid a huge salary, did more philosophizing than acting. It rained almost every day and a hurricane wiped out the set. The Philippine government promised the use of helicopters but diverted them at the last minute to fight communist and Muslim separatists. Coppola filmed for four years with no ending in the script. The shoot threatened to be the biggest disaster in movie history. Providing a detailed snapshot of American cinema during the Vietnam War, this book tells the story of how Apocalypse Now became one of the great films of all time.
Coppola's Monster Film
Author: Steven Travers
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476664250
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
In 1975, after his two Godfather epics, Francis Ford Coppola went to the Philippines to film Apocalypse Now. He scrapped much of the original script, a jingoistic narrative of U.S. Special Forces winning an unwinnable war. Harvey Keitel, originally cast in the lead role, was fired and replaced by Martin Sheen, who had a heart attack. An overweight Marlon Brando, paid a huge salary, did more philosophizing than acting. It rained almost every day and a hurricane wiped out the set. The Philippine government promised the use of helicopters but diverted them at the last minute to fight communist and Muslim separatists. Coppola filmed for four years with no ending in the script. The shoot threatened to be the biggest disaster in movie history. Providing a detailed snapshot of American cinema during the Vietnam War, this book tells the story of how Apocalypse Now became one of the great films of all time.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476664250
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
In 1975, after his two Godfather epics, Francis Ford Coppola went to the Philippines to film Apocalypse Now. He scrapped much of the original script, a jingoistic narrative of U.S. Special Forces winning an unwinnable war. Harvey Keitel, originally cast in the lead role, was fired and replaced by Martin Sheen, who had a heart attack. An overweight Marlon Brando, paid a huge salary, did more philosophizing than acting. It rained almost every day and a hurricane wiped out the set. The Philippine government promised the use of helicopters but diverted them at the last minute to fight communist and Muslim separatists. Coppola filmed for four years with no ending in the script. The shoot threatened to be the biggest disaster in movie history. Providing a detailed snapshot of American cinema during the Vietnam War, this book tells the story of how Apocalypse Now became one of the great films of all time.
The Beauty of Darkness
Author: Mary E. Pearson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805099255
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
Princess Lia and her love, Rafe, have escaped Venda and the path before them is winding and dangerous.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805099255
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
Princess Lia and her love, Rafe, have escaped Venda and the path before them is winding and dangerous.
The Heart Goes Last
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385540361
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—in the gated community of Consilience, residents who sign a contract will get a job and a lovely house for six months of the year...if they serve as inmates in the Positron prison system for the alternate months. “Captivating...thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review Stan and Charmaine, a young urban couple, have been hit by job loss and bankruptcy in the midst of nationwide economic collapse. Forced to live in their third-hand Honda, where they are vulnerable to roving gangs, they think the gated community of Consilience may be the answer to their prayers. At first, this seems worth it: they will have a roof over their heads and food on the table. But when a series of troubling events unfolds, Positron begins to look less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled. The Heart Goes Last is a vivid, urgent vision of development and decay, freedom and surveillance, struggle and hope—and the timeless workings of the human heart.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385540361
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—in the gated community of Consilience, residents who sign a contract will get a job and a lovely house for six months of the year...if they serve as inmates in the Positron prison system for the alternate months. “Captivating...thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review Stan and Charmaine, a young urban couple, have been hit by job loss and bankruptcy in the midst of nationwide economic collapse. Forced to live in their third-hand Honda, where they are vulnerable to roving gangs, they think the gated community of Consilience may be the answer to their prayers. At first, this seems worth it: they will have a roof over their heads and food on the table. But when a series of troubling events unfolds, Positron begins to look less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled. The Heart Goes Last is a vivid, urgent vision of development and decay, freedom and surveillance, struggle and hope—and the timeless workings of the human heart.
The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense
Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336874724X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336874724X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense
Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
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Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Languages : en
Pages : 426
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The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense. By Emanuel Swedenborg, Etc. [With the Text. Translated by William Hill. Vol. 1, 4, 5, 6 Revised by Francis de Soyres, Vol. 2, 3, Revised by James Mitchell.]
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Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Pages : 642
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The Apocalypse Explained
Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
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Category : Athanasianism
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
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Category : Athanasianism
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense in which are Revealed the Arcana which are There Predicted and Have Been Hitherto Deeply Concealed Translated from a Latin Work of Emanuel Swedenborg
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Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Pages : 640
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The Apocalypse Explained
Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
Author: Lydia Millet
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1593767897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Transported to the 21st century, Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi grapple with the legacy of the atom bomb in this “shattering and beautiful” time travel novel (Entertainment Weekly). Oh Pure and Radiant Heart plucks the three scientists who were key to the invention of the atom bomb—J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi—as they watch history’s first mushroom cloud rise over the desert on July 16th, 1945 . . . and places them down in modern-day Santa Fe. One by one, the scientists are spotted by a shy librarian who becomes convinced of their authenticity. Entranced, bewildered, overwhelmed by their significance as historical markers on the one hand, and their peculiar personalities on the other, she, to the dismay of her husband, devotes herself to them. Soon the scientists acquire a sugar daddy—a young pothead millionaire from Tokyo who bankrolls them. Heroes to some, lunatics or con artists to others, the scientists finally become messianic religious figureheads to fanatics, who believe Oppenheimer to be the Second Coming. As the ever-growing convoy traverses the country in a fleet of RV’s on a pilgrimage to the UN, the scientists wrestle with the legacy of their invention and their growing celebrity, while Ann and her husband struggle with the strain on their marriage, a personal journey married to a history of thermonuclear weapons. “Possesses the nervy irreverence of Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller . . . Can only be described as, well, genius.” —Vanity Fair
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1593767897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Transported to the 21st century, Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi grapple with the legacy of the atom bomb in this “shattering and beautiful” time travel novel (Entertainment Weekly). Oh Pure and Radiant Heart plucks the three scientists who were key to the invention of the atom bomb—J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi—as they watch history’s first mushroom cloud rise over the desert on July 16th, 1945 . . . and places them down in modern-day Santa Fe. One by one, the scientists are spotted by a shy librarian who becomes convinced of their authenticity. Entranced, bewildered, overwhelmed by their significance as historical markers on the one hand, and their peculiar personalities on the other, she, to the dismay of her husband, devotes herself to them. Soon the scientists acquire a sugar daddy—a young pothead millionaire from Tokyo who bankrolls them. Heroes to some, lunatics or con artists to others, the scientists finally become messianic religious figureheads to fanatics, who believe Oppenheimer to be the Second Coming. As the ever-growing convoy traverses the country in a fleet of RV’s on a pilgrimage to the UN, the scientists wrestle with the legacy of their invention and their growing celebrity, while Ann and her husband struggle with the strain on their marriage, a personal journey married to a history of thermonuclear weapons. “Possesses the nervy irreverence of Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller . . . Can only be described as, well, genius.” —Vanity Fair