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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Generation Saved Hollywood Pdf, Epub, Ebook EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS: HOW THE SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL GENERATION SAVED HOLLYWOOD PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Peter Biskind | 512 pages | 26 Apr 1999 | SIMON & SCHUSTER | 9780684857084 | English | New York, United States Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Generation Saved Hollywood PDF Book My impression of this documentary wasn't so great due to the fact of already seeing and knowing a similar themed work a few years ago called "A Decade Under the Influence" , directed by Ted Demme and Richard LaGravenese, which was a better project for numerous reasons. Why do people go see them? The book is hefty with gossip of all kinds, which is too bad because he's talking about the revolution in films in the 60's to early 80's. It is chock full of interviews and choice information about the time period 60's's in American cinema that changed everything, for a lot better and some for not. Beatty likes to fuck alot. Biskind's book disappointed me tremendously. Return to the Books Home Page. Assassinations, cultural domination, drugging, spying, provocation: Talk about taking the fight to your opponents—the American people—and crippling them for generations! But in the kind of popularized pseudohistory ''Easy Riders, Raging Bulls'' exemplifies, anecdotes are valued above all else, bitchy gossip is privileged, dysfunction is automatically more fascinating than artistic success, aggrieved former friends and former lovers are granted the license to settle scores sometimes anonymously , documentation is disdained and historical analysis must be squeezed into the narrative quickly, so as not to disrupt the dishing. Biskind really does his work, getting superstars like Warren Beatty and Steven Spielberg on the record as well as those who worked behind the scenes--like film editors Marcia Lucas and Paul Hirsch--who never became famous. The book was the basis of a documentary film of the same name directed by Kenneth Bowser and narrated by actor William H. Easy Rider , obviously, did no favors for hippies and the antiwar movement with its portrayal of dope-running, dope-taking, numbskull hippies draping themselves in the stars-n-stripes and roaring around on flashy motorcycles, acting all arrogant and jackassy. Self Steven Spielberg And if everything in this book is to be believed then filmmakers are some of the worst people there are and they are all lucky to have lived past the age of What you learned in film school was to express yourself with pictures and sound. The documentary talks about the wild parties, the sex and how this had an impact on the director's careers. How can anyone who loves film not be in heaven at the constant parade of landmark films and key industry figures that charges across the screen in this fast-paced documentary? To the studio, it was just time wasted. They were afraid to. Sheer adrenalin. After hearing this story in the documentary, transporting myself back to that scene is a close second. As a documentary it's very standard but the sheer subject matter makes it a very good minutes of viewing. Sep 07, A. I think it might be a college textbook, but I'm not all that sure. Views Read Edit View history. At the start of the movie, Peter [Fonda] and I do a very American thing—we commit a crime, we go for the easy money. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Generation Saved Hollywood Writer So despite the wealth of bizarre and lurid detail to come, be assured that this book merely scratches the surface. Biskind also gets lost reporting lurid details of decadence among the Hollywood hippies during this time, which have a sleazy appeal but ultimately adds up to dated gossip. Between the abrupt subject changes, and the tabloid take on the era, it's hard to pick up the actual information about the movies. Rating details. My thoughts on Easy Riders, Raging Bulls can be summarized by two comparisons: 1. Susan Wloszczyna July 15, Doesn't mean it couldn't have been a better book there are times when You can say Peter Biskind is being a jerk to the generation of filmmakers who revolutionized Hollywood in the s with this gossipy, mean yet thorough retelling of the rise and crash of "The New Hollywood" or you could argue that this group of boy geniuses pretty much got what they deserved as a group of young artists given too much too fast who lost it and ruined others in the process through their own greed and arrogance. Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate is a prime example. He had hit rock bottom. But this is supposed to be a review of Easy Rider, Raging Bull , so back on topic. Calley asked, rhetorically, "What in the fuck did we just see? This movie was "Mean Streets". Details if other :. They infantilized audiences — and that is still going on now. Mar 26, Luis Paez rated it really liked it. In reaction against the past and to help them out of financial meltdown, the studios turned their eyes to a whole new breed of filmmakers--folks who were making films that were little like the films of old. I found this to be a rather enjoyable documentary, but I didn't learn anything I hadn't already known. Watching the film it makes it seem so clear at what it took to make these classics. It's not a story with a happy end, and Biskind showing how it was and how it never be. Self Peter Bogdanovich It continues to manufacture consent for the funneling of billions of public funds to military- surveillance budgets, enabling military-industrial profits to soar to new levels of all-time grotesqueness. We're having breakfast at nine. Why do people go see them? See 1 question about Easy Riders, Raging Bulls…. Halloween Movies for the Whole Family. The New Hollywood movement being when directors and writers like Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader started making 'difficult' films, films with drugs and violence and unhappy endings, films that critics and film students now love to gush over. He's the worst kind of human being I know. If you want to know how these movies got made, you probably need another book. MartinHafer 20 December That being said, I understand what Biskind perhaps wants to say. Being only 23 years old, I know many my age who simply don't "get" older films yet I'm sure after watching this they would see how much daring films used to be before the likes of Spielberg and Lucas turned them into a cash cow. Backed by over hours of interviews, the hefty volume shines a warts-and-all spotlight on a golden decade of renewal in the filmdom. Pictures at a Revolution : This comparison is unfair, Pictures is one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read, but the comparison begs to be made. Add the first question. Then this producer got near Tapin's seat, and said to him: "This is the best film I've seen this year, but I have to go to the bathroom; can you stop it? Many directors are either incapable of growing or are afraid to grow for one reason or another. A handful of mavericks dream of breaking the studios' stranglehold, of making Art that will be screened across the world, but they are beguiled by mountains of cash and their own megalomania and by the time Star Wars hits, they're finished. This charge through the world of New Hollywood of the s remains a compulsive read. Sep 03, F. This is when we see one scene from "Raging Bull", and the beginning of another history, that is the 80's. It seems as if it might be intended as chronological order, but each chapter zips all around in time. Richard Dreyfuss talks, so does Peter Fonda. Jan 21, Thor Garcia rated it it was amazing. You'd think such decadence would be an interesting read but for A handful of mavericks dream of breaking the studios' stranglehold, of making Art that will be screened across the world, but they are beguiled by mountains of cash and their own megalomania and by the time Star Wars hits, they're finished. The Observer. Self Tony Bill Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Generation Saved Hollywood Reviews Retrieved August 3, The New Hollywood movement being when directors and writers like Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader started making 'difficult' films, films To my shame, I am a great lover of celebrity gossip. He was one of the various directors who were more important than the studio and producers. These people tell stories from behind the scenes of the production of these movies as well as stories of all the sex and drugs going across the town. What happened with Star Wars was when like McDonald's got a foothold, the taste for good food just disappeared. Game Change would give paragraphs of great accounts of political strategy which is right in my wheelhouse then get sidetracked with anecdotes of how Elizabeth Edwards is a bitch, John Edwards is a dandy, and what Hilary Clinton wore at a particular campaign event. Calley asked, rhetorically, "What in the fuck did we just see? It was a time when directors, who too often were treated as hired hands by the studios, were reborn as the gods of Mount Cinema. User Reviews What's the point? Fortunately, these days we have our moments as well.
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