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Not discounting the answers you've already gotten, but if you really are interested in that level of detail then you should buy the Blade Runner Bible.
It's bursting from the seams with that kind of detail. There's so much detail Sammon actually had to take stuff out from each edition to add more things to the revised editions. The last edition (linked) even had information on 2049.
And on top of that he's got many more books worth of details he's never published. One user here had an interview with him and he said he's thought of putting it all online because there's no way he could actually publish it all in book form. I wish I could find that post here and add a link to it.
As an example, the columns used in Tyrell's office/bedroom were originally installed upside down so Scott had the entire production stopped so the crew could flip them back over into the position he wanted them in. Little details like that make the book a must read for any obsessive.
Keep at it. I hear they can be very expensive and heavily edited. You could grab this to tide you over. I have it and it's very good. https://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Lake-Memories-Complete-History/dp/1845763432/ref=pd_lpo_14_t_0/136-3272645-9170616?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1845763432&pd_rd_r=0331ff29-07c4-42ad-941b-a5692487409a&pd_rd_w=B21kQ&pd_rd_wg=a1qEF&pf_rd...
I think it was just the 1st edition that was out of print for so long. There was a second edition -- that I never picked up -- that came out for the 25th anniversary ten years ago. It must have also gone out of print at some point, as I'm actually having more difficulty finding a copy of that than the original edition.
I don't know how likely it will happen, but there is a link on the book's Amazon listing to request an ebook. You'll probably have to scroll down and it will be on the right side and have a picture of a kindle.
IDK, maybe just think about how good the original looks now for being over 38 years old? That CGI barely existed then? It was all hand built models and matte background paintings? Most films can't even hold up 10 years let alone 30+, but this masterpiece lives on... and the stunning soundtrack by Vangelis? It seems like it's part of the film's soul...
Maybe read Future Noir to learn about it before you watch it again? Don't get me wrong, 2049 was pure bliss on IMAX but Blade Runner to me is the part of sci-fi history (2001, Star Wars & Alien). In my eyes its style gave birth to every sci-fi film to come afterwards...
And Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty? Oh, man... his epic poetry at the end? That scene is hauntingly beautiful.
So just think, 40 years ago when it was made there were no cell phones, or digital anything except maybe a clock, if you wanted to call someone you had to remember the phone number or write it down and pay a quarter to make a call, there were barely any computers, no self driving teslas, no internet as we know it, movies were on VHS tapes that you had to drive to the store to rent one, music was on compact discs... So looking back Blade Runner was pretty monumental. It may have done poorly at the box office, but film enthusiasts hold it in high regard.
has anyone read the MBDTF book? it goes so deep into the analysis of not only each song, but how it fits into history and a bunch of cool stuff like that http://www.amazon.com/Kanye-Wests-Beautiful-Twisted-Fantasy/dp/1623565421
I wouldn't bother with much of the "optional stuff" until you've read the main trilogy twice. Silmarillion is a good next step.
Unfinished Tales is just that - a lot of "unfinished" and often contradictory stories. Something people new to the space don't quite understand is that a LOT of the works in UT/HoME are not actual complete, fleshed out stories - but notes on directions that Tolkien jotted down, him starting to take characaters/stories in certain places, changing his mind and then creating another version. But it's all recorded, so we read and study them all.
I would suggest avoiding those two for now as they might confuse you until you fully grasp the main stories. A lot of these subs also struggle with that when regarding the show, because they believe there is an actual "canon" that was broken having only read, say, the Silmarillion, without reading more of Tolkien's ideas for the second age.
My suggestion would be to read
- The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Two Towers
- The Return of the King
- The Hobbit
- The Silmarillion - although even this has many things that were published that were no longer considered "canon" by Tolkien, so be a little careful with it
- The Lord of the Rings Readers Companion by Hammond & Scull
- Any of Beren & Luthien/Fall of Gondolin/Children of Hurin/Fall of Numenor that interests you
- Then dive into Unfinished Tales & HoME.
Don't sleep on the readers companion; make sure it's the one by H&S. It's AMAZING, and it complements a second re-read so well.
>He said that there would be differences, especially as characters that exist in the book don't exist in the show. He didn't deny the broadstrokes.
In fact, he cast doubt even on the broad strokes:
>Yes, some of the things you saw on HBO in GAME OF THRONES you will also see in THE WINDS OF WINTER (though maybe not in quite the same ways)… but much of the rest will be quite different.
And before that he literally said (in an interview published in <em>Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon</em>): "Every character has a different end."
Yeah, I've never been able to watch the whole documentary in one sitting either but that's okay.
And yes, it was originally a book by Peter Bracke filled with all sorts of interviews with the cast and crew and so many behind the scenes photos. Well worth picking up if you're a fan:
They used it as the basis for a documentary on the franchise which is available on Amazon Prime.
I've read parts of the Silmarillion (though familiar w/ the overall story) and am halfway through reading a collection of Tolkein's letters. It all depends on what you mean by a Catholic work. I also wouldn't explicitly say it's a Catholic work mostly because Christ is never mentioned! However... there is a strong sense of Catholic religious philosophy imbued in Middle Earth which is what Tolkein means by a "fundamentally religious and Catholic work" without using direct allegories on purpose (i.e. the route C.S. Lewis went in the Chronicles of Narnia).
Here are a couple suggestions for further reading on Catholicism's influence in LOTR:
1) A popular-level book done in Thomistic style by Peter Kreeft: https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Tolkien-Worldview-Behind-Rings/dp/1586170252
2) This one's on my shelf that I've been meaning to read, but it's a lot more academic in nature and concerns more modern Catholic inspirations he took in his writing: https://www.amazon.com/Tolkiens-Modern-Reading-Middle-earth-Beyond/dp/1943243727/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2FE8862L468IJ&keywords=word+on+fire+tolkien&qid=1651292563&s=books&sprefix=word+on+fire+tolkein%2Cstripbooks%2C101&sr=1-1
Actually somebody did come out and write a book about the history of the show. which confirmed that everybody who worked on the show was committed and working to the best of their ability, even D&D.
Hammond and Scull are well-regarded. Generally, though, the best writers tend to focus on scholarship rather than general reference. There aren't a lot of good books of that type for Tolkien, probably because to go into sufficient depth, you have to make your reader spend just as much time on your book as if they were just reading Tolkien's books themselves. The other end of the spectrum is stuff like "Lord of the Rings for Dummies," which, while more reliable than Day, is pretty shallow, and in between, there's just a big gap.
That's how Day managed to make such bank on his high-visibility, low-information book series. The people who were already familiar with JRRT indepth instantly spotted the insufferably poor quality, but newcomers to the fandom, if they were looking for an abridged catalog of "the lore," thought they were finding a great prize that would help them "get up to speed." His books look very tempting if you don't know what you're getting.
He takes quite an authoritative tone in them, too, with the result that we regularly get newcomers posting here attempting to show off some bit of knowledge, only to be quickly told that "that's wrong, and it sounds like something you'd read in David Day," and that's when they find they have a lot of learning to unlearn.
You dodged a bullet.
See the "look inside" here. It looks extremely dry to me personally. Then again I could never get into The History of Middle Earth, so I imagine people who do would enjoy the Reader's Companion.
I would highly recommend Peter Kreeft's The Philosophy of Tolkien.
But there is a lot you can learn from the book and a lot of it relates directly to Catholicism.
Catholic Philosopher and writer Peter Kreeft even has a book talking about it: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Peter-Kreeft/dp/1586170252
This book is a great behind-the-scenes resource. I have the old version.
I've had two, one from 1999 which got destroyed from over use, and one I got that had some pre-2049 stuff in it. Came out 2017.
And yes, to both. In fact part of Chapter 7 is solely devoted to Mead.
Back To The Future The Ultimate Visual History There is a newer version but this is the one I have.
October 6. Pre-orders are available, at least in the US.
Mais uma das informações vindas do livro de james Hibberd a ser lançado em outubro.
Em resumo:
- Para não dar spoiler de coisas que vão acontecer nos livros (mas não na série);
- Poderia desmerecer o casamento vermelho e diminuir a tensão sobre a ressurreição de Jon Snow;
- Não seria justo com o desempenho de Michelle Fairley até então fazê-la interpretar um papel de uma "zumbi que não fala".
Hibberd destaca ao final que GRRM disse que incluir Senhora Coração de Pedra seria a principal coisa que mudaria em Game of Thrones.
$31.49 on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062419145/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_i_OXz0EbXWE7J5N
I just rewatched the trilogy this weekend since it was on Netflix. My favorite trilogy of all time. Never gets old. Just ordered the book :)
It's a solid pod yes. The stuff on blonde is really good. I didn't really care for the to pimp a butterfly stuff. He took 97% of the mbdtf stuff from this here book:
https://www.amazon.com/Kanye-Wests-Beautiful-Twisted-Fantasy/dp/1623565421
Future Noir by Paul Sammon also goes into a lot of juicy detail. Scott wasn't getting along with anyone; the crew disliked Scott so much that they printed up T-shirts to protest what they felt was an overly authoritarian style. Ford and Sean Young also didn't get along.
There was a great book called The Physics of Star Trek by noted physicist Lawrence Krauss that spoke to this. He pointed out that the tiniest fraction of a delay in the Inertial Damping system, cited by the writers as why characters can be jostled about the bridge to dramatic effect, would turn you into, as he put it, "applesauce."
One of my favorite examinations of the problems with transporters is in Lawrence Krauss's <em>The Physics of Star Trek</em> which is over 20 years old at this point. Still completely relevant as far as these thought experiments go.
If you liked this you should read The Physics Of Star Trek in which they try to tackled the problem of how much energy is needed for the transporter to actually work.
This book is a more in depth look at why I dislike it.
However in my opinion Star Was is a very dull and tired universe. George Lucas basically ripped from Joseph Campbell's the Heroes Journey mythos for his entire narrative structure. On top of that IMO it is a very egocentric universe where an elite few control the power of many, the Jedi being the worst offenders. The ship in Star Wars, the Millennium Falcon is like a WW1 fighter plane whose sole purpose is to fight on the good fight. While in a franchise like Star Trek the Enterprise carries the spirit of Humanity with it, and is sent to explore. The Enterprise also uses diplomacy as much as it can, and unlike Star Wars uses force only when all other options have failed. Halo is certainly walking a fine line between combat and the essence of humanity for sure, but Halo also does not bog itself down in one narrative thread. In Halo you have a lot of sub plots such as AI as a unconscious being and soldiers has human beings not hardware. In Star Wars, you have the force, and the empire and that's it. I'm not sure how Star Wars handles it's extended universe so it may make up for it there. I am just basing my thoughts off the films.
There's a book you might like to read called The Physics of Star Trek that attempts to discuss this in terms of the transporters.
Basically, it was something very similar, but it asked if your consciousness persisted like you'd expect. It turned out it depended on the transporter tech.. if it was a physical atom move or if it was a copy + 'pattern' reinforcement.
There's a lot of hand waving in Star Trek, but they do explore these thought experiments.
I'll keep looking. Maybe if someone has an actual copy of Hammond and Scull's LotR's Reader's Guide they can swoop in to save the day.
There are tons of episodes that deal with developing AI--Data's introduction in the pilot (his talk with Riker) probably has a couple gems, though I can't think of them off the top of my head. You might also look at episodes like "The Ultimate Computer" (TOS), "Quality of Life" (TNG), "Measure of a Man" (TNG), etc. Voyager had some good AI moments with The Doctor, too--"Author, Author," deals with the personal rights of what is essentially a computer program, for example. I believe there was an episode in Voyager with a sentient bomb as well...Dreadnaught? If I weren't at work I'd like nothing better than to watch Star Trek all day and get you some quotes. :)
Also, I'll refer you to an excellent (though probably outdated) book by Lawrence Krauss: The Physics of Star Trek: http://www.amazon.ca/Physics-Star-Trek-Lawrence-Krauss/dp/0465002048