"I told George, 'You can't say that stuff, you can only type it.' But I was wrong. It worked." - Harrison Ford (in a quote that's been sort of taken out of context for years)
If you're a major Star Wars fan (more than I am, and I like the films quite a bit on the whole, yes even the prequels to greater or certainly lessor degrees), you've likely already read this, and probably own it as well since it's been out for over ten years. The people I'd like to recommend this book t0 are those who like movie books and have at least some likability for the series (certainly for the original, non-Episode-titled entry), but aren't sure about digging in to a fully comprehensive breakdown. But for me, this is simply one of the masterful breakdowns of how a movie gets made, certainly on such a scale as this, and what it means to be in the PROCESS of directing, writing, producing and just crafting a motion picture.
American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe has had significant influence in television and film. Many are adaptations of Poe's work, others merely reference it.
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In the s and s, Universal Studios adapted several Poe stories—and used others as inspirational jump-off points—primarily starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. These films are usually treated as forming part of the early Universal Monster films, alongside Karloff's Frankenstein and Lugosi's Dracula et al.
The educational film The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays, directed by Frank Capra in , contains a brief scene in which Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Charles Dickens appear as marionettes.
Perhaps most well known are the films directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price such as House of Usher, the first in the series. The following movie, The Pit and the Pendulum (), was loosely ins
