Free Download Sylvia Townsend, "Bumpy Road: The Making, Flop, and Revival of Two-Lane Blacktop"
English | ISBN: 1496804147 | 2019 | 216 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
Bumpy Road: The Making, Flop, and Revival of "Two-Lane Blacktop" chronicles the genesis, production, box-office debacle, resurrection, near-canonization, and lasting influence of director Monte Hellman's 1971 existentialist car-racing movie. Hellman's unconventional choices for the film included casting three nonactors―musicians James Taylor and Dennis Wilson, as well as his girlfriend, Laurie Bird―in lead roles; shooting the movie in sequence from west to east on Route 66; and refusing to show the actors the full script, instead giving each his or her lines for the day.
Before its release, Esquire put the film on its cover as the magazine's choice for movie of the year and printed the entire screenplay, leading moviegoers to expect a crowd-pleaser. Audiences anticipated that
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