Film Talk
by Robert Cettl
Large PDF format (Allow time to download)
Graphics, Full color throughout — 198 pages
$9.95
Robert DeNiro, armed, prepares to make trouble; staring at his own
reflection in a mirror he provokes himself, studying his reaction to
perfect his response with every repetition of the phrase: “Are you talkin’
to me?”
Peter Weller, drug-addled writer and pest exterminator, prepares for a
true Naked Lunch in the first major William S. Burroughs adaptation ever
attempted by Hollywood; musing, he sets the tone to follow: “Exterminate
all rational thought.”
Ingrid Bergman, alive in the turmoil of World War Two, dating a German
officer somewhere in Casablanca meets a former lover now club owner
(Humphrey Bogart of course) knowing that the two of them can no longer
connect but in memory; she must say goodbye, with a fond recollection:
“We’ll always have Paris.”
Movie dialogue has an uncanny effect of permeating both popular culture
and shaping the personal viewing experience. Often, it’s a well-written
line which proves as memorable as a well-staged scene. Film Talk is the
first fully interactive e-book to chronicle, inform and guide the film
buff through the myriad of dizzying, entertaining, emotional and
enlightening effects of memorable film dialogue on the viewing experience:
an ideal e-companion for / enhancement of the home theatre experience.
An anthology of classic movie lines – from early Hollywood to contemporary
screens – Film Talk is divided into easily accessed, indexed themed
chapters which take the reader on a systematic journey through a century
of movie dialogue, illustrated with rare full colour production day-bills
/ poster art and with exclusive hyper-linked content to the Web’s
Labyrinth of Film, Wider Screenings, as featured in the weekly No Limits
self-help e-zine column.
