{"id":973,"date":"2012-02-08T06:47:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T06:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/?page_id=973"},"modified":"2012-02-08T06:58:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T06:58:52","slug":"tom-ue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/film\/reviews\/tom-ue\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Ue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent Releases in Film Books<\/h1>\n

The Ballad of Rango: The Art & Making of an Outlaw Film<\/em>
\nby David S. Cohen
\nSan Rafael, CA: Insight Editions, 2011
\n156 pp. $44.95<\/h6>\n
Red Riding Hood: From Script to Screen<\/em>
\nby Catherine Hardwicke
\nScreenplay by David Leslie Johnson
\nSan Rafael, CA: Insight Editions, 2011
\n192 pp. $21.50<\/h6>\n
Palo Alto<\/em>
\nBy James Franco
\nNew York:\u00a0 Simon & Schuster, 2010
\n224 pp. $27.99<\/h6>\n
Bossypants<\/em>
\nby Tina Fey
\nNew York:\u00a0 Little, Brown and Company, 2011
\n288 pp. $29.99<\/h6>\n

This spring brings forth numerous new film-related books.\u00a0 Here are a few selections.\u00a0 The Ballad of Rango: The Art & Making of an Outlaw Film<\/em> presents the illustrated story behind Gore Verbinski\u2019s film of the same title.\u00a0 The director \u2013 best known for his work in the first three Pirate of the Caribbean<\/em> films \u2013 creates an unlikely hero in the chameleon Rango, and the film\u2019s story is carefully and captivatingly storyboarded in this beautiful coffee-table book by Insight Editions.<\/em>\u00a0 Boasting over 300 colour illustrations, and deftly written by Variety<\/em> and Script Magazine<\/em> veteran David S. Cohen, this is a stunning companion.<\/p>\n

Red Riding Hood<\/em>, another offering from Insight, is an admirable-looking book that brings together director Catherine Hardwicke\u2019s introduction, notes, and original sketches, David Leslie Johnson\u2019s screenplay, and numerous pages of concept art, storyboards, and illustrations.\u00a0 The film garnered a score of 12% on Rotten Tomatoes<\/em><\/a>, and has invited numerous comparisons with Hardwicke\u2019s adaptation of the first Twilight<\/em> film; however, Hardwicke\u2019s retelling of the fairytale comes across much more vividly in this book, which demonstrates much of the film\u2019s unrealized potentials.\u00a0 Moreover, this beautifully book captures the ambitions and promise of the film.<\/p>\n

Here is a caption from the screenplay:<\/strong><\/p>\n

YOUNG VALERIE<\/strong>
\nPeter\u2026do you have the knife?<\/p>\n

PETER<\/strong>
\nRight here.<\/p>\n

Peter whips out a SHARP LITTLE KNIFE.\u00a0 Their bodies right next to each other.\u00a0 But then attention is on a CRUDE ANIMAL TRAP.\u00a0 The kids watch a WHITE RABBIT hop up to the trap.\u00a0 They hold their breath as it takes the bait \u2013 a piece of SHINY RED APPLE.\u00a0 SNAP.\u00a0 (16)<\/p>\n

Besides these books about films, multi-award-winning actors James Franco and Tina Fey have both released their first books. Franco\u2019s Palo Alto<\/em> is a collection of short stories about adolescents in suburban America.\u00a0 Clear and unpretentious writing mark page after page; however, the strength of these stories derive from its largely disinterested narrative voice, which sensitizes us, more fully, to his characters\u2019 experiences.\u00a0 Franco\u2019s book will be, likely, the first of many; however, a writer can only have one first book.\u00a0 In many ways, he has much to be proud of.<\/p>\n

We are warned never to judge a book by its cover.\u00a0 However, in many ways, one should judge Tina Fey\u2019s excellent memoir, Bossypants,<\/em> by its equally comic and disturbing cover art (see below left).\u00a0 This hugely-enjoyable memoir tackles many pressing social issues, and its writer is by turns self-critical and funny.\u00a0 Fey\u2019s witticism manifests in every page of Bossypants<\/em>, and her passion for this project is reflected even in her selection of photographs.\u00a0 Still, she will likely be remembered for her excellent work on Saturday Night Live<\/em> and 30 Rock<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recent Releases in Film Books The Ballad of Rango: The Art & Making of an Outlaw Film by David S. Cohen San Rafael, CA: Insight Editions, 2011 156 pp. $44.95 Red Riding Hood: From Script to Screen by Catherine Hardwicke Screenplay by David Leslie Johnson San Rafael, CA: Insight Editions, 2011 192 pp. $21.50 Palo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":983,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"authorpage.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-973","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/973\/revisions\/975"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}