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Trumbo: A biography of the Oscar-winning screenwriter who broke the Hollywood blacklist - Now a major motion picture (film tie-in edition) de Bruce Cook

Trumbo: A biography of the Oscar-winning screenwriter who broke the Hollywood blacklist - Now a major motion picture (film tie-in edition)

Autor Bruce Cook
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 noi 2015

O cameră plină de fum, sunetul sacadat al unei mașini de scris și amenințarea surdă a Congresului American — acesta este decorul în care descoperim destinul celui mai bine plătit scenarist din epoca de aur a cinematografiei, devenit peste noapte un paria. Ceea ce diferențiază această biografie semnată de Bruce Cook de alte lucrări despre „Lista Neagră” este gradul de intimitate și onestitate: textul a fost redactat cu participarea directă a lui Dalton Trumbo, oferind o perspectivă „din interior” asupra omului care a refuzat să își trădeze convingerile, chiar și cu prețul închisorii.

Notăm cu interes cum Cook reușește să surprindă natura radicală a lui Trumbo, un spirit independent care, înainte de a scrie Spartacus, a fost deopotrivă brutar și contrabandist. Cine a apreciat portretul din I Am Spartacus! de Kirk Douglas va găsi aici aceeași profunzime biografică, aplicată însă întregului parcurs al lui Trumbo, nu doar momentului de cotitură al filmului omonim. În timp ce Bernard Gordon în Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist oferă o perspectivă a exilului european, Cook se concentrează pe rezistența din inima sistemului, documentând cum Trumbo a câștigat premii Oscar sub nume false în timp ce era oficial interzis.

Considerăm că experiența de jurnalist a lui Cook transpare în ritmul alert al narațiunii, similar cu modul în care acesta a explorat tensiunea în alte lucrări ale sale, precum Fame Farm. Deși autorul este cunoscut și pentru ficțiunea sa istorică, în Trumbo el rămâne fidel faptelor, construind o cronică cinematică a unei perioade în care simpla apartenență politică putea distruge cariere. Este o lectură despre demnitate și despre modul în care talentul poate înfrânge cenzura politică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781473624696
ISBN-10: 147362469X
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:Film tie-in ed
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția John Murray
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această biografie cititorilor pasionați de istoria cinematografiei și de luptele pentru libertatea de exprimare. Dincolo de scandalul politic, veți descoperi povestea fascinantă a unui scriitor care a învins sistemul prin creativitate și curaj. Este o resursă esențială pentru a înțelege contextul filmului premiat cu Bryan Cranston și pentru a explora culisele unei perioade tumultuoase din istoria americană.

Despre autor

Bruce Cook (1932-2003) a fost un jurnalist, critic și scriitor american prolific, a cărui carieră a cuprins atât reportajul de teren, cât și critica literară și de film. S-a alăturat agenției UPI în 1967, acoperind evenimente majore precum misiunile Apollo. De-a lungul vieții a publicat 23 de cărți, demonstrând o versatilitate rară: de la biografia lui Dalton Trumbo, scrisă cu colaborarea acestuia, până la serii de romane polițiste și ficțiune istorică despre William Shakespeare. Experiența sa de jurnalist veteran îi conferă stilului său o claritate și o acuratețe documentară remarcabilă, adaptată perfect contextului complex al Hollywood-ului de la mijlocul secolului XX.

Descriere

NOMINATED FOR OSCAR, BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (BRYAN CRANSTON, BEST ACTOR)
Dalton Trumbo was the central figure of the infamous 'Hollywood Ten,' the screenwriters who, during the McCarthy era, were charged by the House Committee on Un-American Acitivities for their associations with the Communist Party. Due to their refusal to cooperate during the investigation, Trumbo and his fellow screenwriters were declared in contempt of Congress and were ultimately blacklisted from Hollywood and some were even jailed. Although Trumbo was one of several hundred writers, directors, producers, and actors who were deprived of the opportunity to work in the motion picture industry from 1947 to 1960, he won an Oscar under the pseudonym Robert Rich for The Brave One in 1956, and he was the first to see his name on the big screen again in 1960 with Exodus, one of the year's biggest movies.
All his life Trumbo was a radical of the homegrown, independent variety. From his early days in Colorado, where his grandfather was a county sheriff, to his time in Los Angeles, where he organized a bakery strike and was even a bootlegger, to his time as an author when he wrote the powerful pacifist novel Johnny Got His Gun, to his heyday as a top-paid (and frequently broke) Hollywood screenwriter-where his credits include Roman Holiday, Spartacus, Papillon, Lonely Are the Brave, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, The Brave One, and Kitty Foyle-his life rivaled anything he had created.
Written with Dalton Trumbo's full cooperation, at a moment when he himself did not know how much time he had left, Trumbo is a candid tale of a colorful figure who was at the epicenter of a tumultuous period in recent American history.

Recenzii

What a relief... to read Bruce Cook's Trumbo, a book of clarity, probing intelligence, and considerable grace. Trumbo was a true original. His life has the chronicler it merits.
A gossipy, anecdotal narrative that is fascinating reading
He wrote a brilliant novel and a number of very good movies, and he demolished the Hollywood blacklist almost single-handed, but his greatest achievement was just being the incomparable Trumbo. Bruce Cook has captured the wit, intelligence, and unpredictability that made him one of the truly original people of our time
As a study of life under the blacklist the book is superb... Essential reading for anyone interested in either the cinema or recent American history
PRAISE FOR THE FILM TRUMBO
'a cracking good story, and Cranston does a great job portraying a man who made great sacrifices for his principles'

the hugely entertaining, revealing and powerful portrait of this great screenwriter... an almost bigger-than-life colorful movie about the movies. A screen triumph for all involved, it is especially Bryan Cranston's magnificent work in the title role that towers over everything.
Bryan Cranston finally translates his critical acclaim for Breaking Bad into an Oscar-caliber performance in darkly comic Trumbo, playing an eloquent, witty screenwriter who bucked the Hollywood blacklist and triumphed... a
highly entertaining biopic... Director Jay Roach (Meet the Parents) may seem an unlikely fit for the material, but as Martin Ritt's blacklist comedy The Front (starring Woody Allen) showed and Trumbo reminds us, sometimes comedy can be the best weapon against demagogues

Among movies about old moviemakers, Trumbo works better, and has more to say about the world at large, than My Week With Marilyn orHitchcock... Come for the smooth supporting turns by Louis C.K. and Alan Tudyk, the impersonations of icons like John Wayne and Douglas (played with chin-y gusto by Dean O'Gorman) and for Cranston, who fills the air with craggy, growly authority. Stay for the listless yet vital lesson in democracy.
What makes the movie work are the lively performances, both from the supporting cast and from Cranston
a powerhouse Bryan Cranston... Cranston plays the hell out of Dalton Trumbo... Kudos to director Jay Roach for not wallowing in misery. His movie is bracing and buoyant when Trumbo takes on gossip gorgon Hedda Hopper (a wicked Helen Mirren) and writes cheapies for the King brothers (Stephen Root and a hilarious John Goodman). When Kirk Douglas hired Trumbo to write Spartacus in 1960, the Commie witch hunt was exposed as the sham it was. Witch hunts haven't gone, they've gone global (ask the folks at Charlie Hebdo). Cranston shows us there's nothing retro about watching Trumbo in his glory, speaking truth to power.
a timely tale of political paranoia and personal pain... Mirren, in Hopper's extravagant wardrobe, proves once and for all that she is the best at a truly underappreciated, classic Hollywood skill: wearing a hat.
Bryan Cranston owns Trumbo, both character and film, from first word to last. The picture is an incredibly fun leap into a time-machine back into old-fashioned Hollywood, whose good and bad characteristics are twisted to be both endearing and entertaining. But more than this, its fiery central character is a big symbol of something that's missing in present-day Hollywood. Where are the Dalton Trumbos of today?
an important reminder of how democracy can fail ... and the strength of character it takes to fight the system
Come for Bryan Cranston, stay for Dalton Trumbo
A good-spirited, provocative and satisfying look at the great Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo... Bryan Cranston is terrific as the left-wing activist with the right ideas at the wrong time.
Bryan Cranston gives a performance as compelling and complex as the man himself must have been. Cranston's Trumbo is eminently interesting, from his rounded posture and curious eyes to his distinct cadence and diction. Appearing in nearly every frame of the film, Cranston infuses John McNamara's clever screenplay with even more life.
Bryan Cranston shines as the titular character of Trumbo. Transforming into the role with the old school panache of a seasoned character actor. Armed with his usual quick witted style and knack for bringing those he has played to life, Cranston doesn't pull any punches. Few thespians, save for example Jonnny Depp as Hunter S. Thomson, Philip Seymour Hoffman as Capote or Daniel Day Lewis in any role he undertakes, are we graced with talent which truly transforms into the person they have set out to personify. This is one of those films.

Notă biografică

Bruce Cook (1932-2003), veteran critic, journalist, and author, wrote this biography with Dalton Trumbo's full cooperation in 1976. Under the name Bruce Alexander, Cook wrote eleven mystery novels featuring the real-life historical figure Sir John Fielding, magistrate of the Bow Street court during the latter half of the eighteenth Century. Under both names Cook wrote a total of 23 books, both fiction and nonfiction; they include a crime fiction series featuring Los Angeles private detective Chico Cervantes. Cook's last completed novel, Young Will: The Confessions of William Shakespeare, was published posthumously. Born in Chicago, Bruce Cook lived in Los Angeles and Paris with his wife, the violinist Judith Aller.