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.