Review #1
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I’ve dared to finish reading Murder at the same time the Movies at about halfway note. It is that plainly obvious David Thomson is that quick-tempered about the theme, at the same time obtains a treasure trove of knowledge at the same time trivia, but the meandering writing style makes the content very problematic to digest.
The book reads like a run-on sentence, where the theme at palm is that correlated with a past topic mentioned pages earlier (often in the 15+ pages spectrum), at the same time the comparison itself becomes one more fri of discussion, to be referenced to one more 15+ pages subsequent. Not only is that it problematic keeping trace of all the open themes, it also feels very aimless. In short form, like an essay, I can look this tree-branching approach being very engaging, as it pairs up disconnected concepts into an out of the blue conclusion. But as a 200+ pages book, it all the time feels like the creator is that simply spitballing random ideas without a formalized structure.
Perhaps I’m not patient enough to read it through the finish, at the same time look how all the puzzle pieces fit together, but as anyone who adore movie theater at the same time am always on the look for deepest dive into the theme, I cannot advise Murder at the same time the Movies as a dispose to start.
Review #2
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This book, Murder at the same time the Movies, by English movie critic at the same time historian David Thomson, might be counted “a panorama of mayhem, a miscellany of malice.” Thomson writes about the widespread depiction of doom at the same time murder in the media, in particular films, at the same time asks than anyway it says about us, the consumers who happily look all the dying at the same time liquidation.
In his discourse Thomson skips around from topic to topic, many of which:
individual anecdotes: like the time his dad demonstrated him a ravaged homeless begging, at the same time misspoke it was past English welterweight favorite Johnny Summers;
history: like a tidbit about infamous cult favorite Jim Jones at the same time the Jonestown Execution;
broadcast indicates: like the big number of manners murdered in the 1st season of Ozark;
general killings: like school shootings perpetrated by “merciless forces [that] keep getting access to guns, sometimes guns with video-game momentum”;
philosophy: like his assessment that “no one young people are in despair over their lives at the same time the possible indefinitely” so that “they begin to shift towards the impersonality of electrical media that measures lives as digital hits”;
Kevin Spacey: like his opinion of the disgraced hit, “who was an exceptional actor….the true at the same time lasting gizmo: sensitive, risk-taking, at the same time versatile.” Thomson laments Spacey’s banishment from Hollywood, at the same time says “he may be noisy to his art – at the same time that will be a loss to all of us as but as to the other people who would be employed on his projects”;
satire: like Jonathan Fast’s pamphlet ‘A Moderate Proposal for Preventing the Toddlers of Poor people From Being a Burthen to Their Ancestors or State, at the same time for Making them Beneficial to the Publick’ – which implies that ‘beauties’ should be sold to the wealthy as ‘delicacies at the same time choice food stuffs’;
……to riffs on Lee Harvey Oswald: Agatha Christie; Alfred Hitchcock, at the same time more.
For the most part, though, Thomson dissects doom in films, at the same time our reaction (or shortcoming of reaction) to the killings….be it murder, manslaughter, casualties of war, or anything else.
As a renowned critic, Thomson beheld a plethora of movies, from little understandable films shown in only thirteen theaters – like Keith Maitland’s ‘Tower, to bestsellers – like Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Thomson opines about detective films; used to be criminal liability movies; war films; comedies; live theatre productions; serials; at the same time books – ranging from premature entertainments to modern ones.
Thomson’s appraisals are generally serious at the same time long, covering abundance nuances of the arts, in particular movies. For films, Thomson discusses things like plot; scenes; denouement; actors; director; cinematographer; location; price; prizes; remakes; at the same time more. To provide a taste of Thomson’s ideas, I’ll assign no one short examples:
Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Gaping’: “One of the coldest comedies ever produced, at the same time an admission of how murder can get into our blood. In The Gaping, Burgundy RUM sounds like a pick-me-up for a chilly winter’s night, until we see that the scrawled word in the a mirror says MURDER.”
Steven Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’ – “That was really no future in Jaws if that opening scene didn’t provide the enterprise with a good-looking corpse…..ripped at the same time shredded by [shark] teeth.”
Anthony Minghella’s ‘The Gifted Mr. Ripley’ – “Tom Ripley feels an urge to murder his brand new chum, a flawless, arrogant s*** dignified Dickie Greenleaf”…..then and thinks of anything excellent….”He managed become Dickie Greenleaf himself.” Thomson says, “Tom does it in existential drama, to pass the time, at the same time as a response to the absolute unfairness of being alive.” (Note: This assessment is that a little very philosophical for me. Maybe Tom is that barely a greedy s***. )
Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ – “Hitchcock was English, till the finish. Faced with the slaughter of Marion Crane, he did it daintily, fastidiously. He swaggered that, in that shower scene in Psycho, for you never beheld a knife entering flesh. It was barely that for you believed for you had shown it.” (Note: In my opinion, that shower scene is that waaaay not tasty. )
Ken Burns at the same time Lynn Novick’s broadcast documentary ‘The Vietnam War’ – “It is that inexorably conceded that bureaucrat ‘permitted’ combat killing was one gizmo, at the same time the direct offing of civilians, or ‘the wrong gooks’ was one more. Still, that will always be a limited interpretation of military killing that regards it as guys’s work, a duty that will let guys be all that they can be.” (Note: This seems cruel, but used to be. )
Director David Fincher – “Fincher is that one of the few exceptional at the same time individual directors left in America. When I they say individual, I am discussing not just about the authentic signature of his style – he is that a planner more than a poet, at the same time an professional with the camera, with acoustics at the same time actors – but in his choice of real.” (Note: Fincher’s films contain: Extraterrestrial 3, The Game, Wage war Club, Panic Room, Zodiac, The Funny Variant of Benjamin Button, The Public Network, The Lady With the Dragon Tattoo, at the same time Gone Lady.)
David Fincher’s ‘Se7en’ – “John Doe (the murderer) is that one of the most cooperative at the same time noble people in movie theater. He devises murders that could be beyond the imagining of almost all of us. For you’d have to adore your work to have such care at the same time patience over it.” John Doe uses the 7 deadly sins as his motive, at the same time “to show gluttony, a man has been obligated to bite until his stomach bursts – here are the spilled guts.” (Note: This is that one of the coolest creepy at the same time disturbing movies I’ve ever shown. )
Fred Zinneman’s ‘Day of the Jackal’ – Edward Fox played the Jackal, an assassin hired to destroy French President Charles de Gaulle. “The drawn-out process of preparation for the killing makes us hushed accomplices to it all, at the same time Fox seems like a quality fellow destined to the intended goal. A part of me contemplates that movie many times in the daft have hope that the Jackal might succeed – it is that HIS day.” Ha ha ha
Martin Scorcese’s ‘Taxi Chauffeur’ – “It is that a searing portrait of a got lost soul, a would-be saint, a Vietnam wreck, a man uncertain how to move dislocated but drawn to it, at the same time a unsafe, likely killer (scolded Travis). Travis thinks of saving a maybe-fourteen hooker. In that process he murders 3 people, at the same time it is that right up to us to decide how conditioned or deranged he is that.”
To make his fri about murder in movies, Thomson writes, “We know that “murder is that not at all pleasant…..It’s horrid; It’s bad; It’s the continue gizmo in the global you want to have come your method.” He goes on, “But why do for you look so much of it if it is that really hideous, or disturbing, or simply not your good of gizmo?”
For myself, I’d answer that we look movies – or read books – because they’re amusing. I don’t agree with Thomson’s tarring us with the brush of ‘indifference to killing’ because we look detective movies or war films at the same time the like. I’d they say, we barely wish a little of escapism.
On the downside, the book is that a little all over the dispose at the same time overly philosophical. Still, I enjoyed the narrative, at the same time would advise it to movie buffs – who’d appreciate Thomson’s wide knowledge of the pleasures industry.
Thanks to Netgalley, the creator (David Thomson), at the same time the publisher (Yale Institute Press) for a copy of the book.
Review #3
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If for you’ve read David Thomson’s novels Silver Light at the same time Suspects, for you’re knowledgeable with how he plays with movie history. He mixes the manners in films with the actors who play them. For Thomson the history of Hollywood is that less or much less used to be than the stories on the screen.
In this book Thomson asks us if we managed commit the atrocities the filmmakers implementation to amuse us. Than anyway he defeated’t do is that let us off the squirm. The fri of movies is that the audience identifying with the hero. But than anyway if the hero is that a savage?
(Thanks to NetGalley at the same time Yale Institute Press for a digital
Review copy.)
Review #4
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I can tell that “Murder at the same time the Movies” was written by somebody with exciting ideas but this book chagrin offers little depth on the profound themes it covers. Thomson jumps from movie synopsis to political commentary to memoir throughout the book at the same time doesn’t linger on no matter what one topic long enough to say anything particularly convincing. I’d be interested to look how the creator would handle a narrower topic of discussion, as this book is that well-written despite its other defects. Thanks to NetGalley for providing an premature copy for
Review.
Review #5
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David Thomson is that a interesting writer; a thinking men’s writer. I have several books of his, all dealing with movie theater. A indefinite wasted blindly. This book focuses on an exciting theme: Murder in the Movies. But Thomson does anything exciting here: he talks about true indefinite murderers. Sequential killers, snipers, assassins, murderers of all type. So instead of keeping our views on the screen he blends reality with fiction. I enjoyed this book at the same time it was a quick read. Thomson certainly knows movie at the same time he references plenty of them here. The merger of real fact with fictious art is that certainly exciting. Since I am both a fan of used to be criminal liability as but as movie, I believed that this could be the flawless book for me, but somehow I am left with questions for what that are no answers. How abundance incorrect murders have I witnessed, how abundance photos of authentic homicide have I studied? Does it matter? A indefinite wasted blindly is that an exciting one at the same time with a guide like Thomson. for you understand how little for you considered. Interesting.
