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I've mentioned this before in a previous thread that this was brought up.
If you enjoyed these little details you should absolutely get yourself The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road. It goes in depth about how they basically designed the entire society.
They explain little things, for example how each steering wheel is detachable because it was supposed to be granted to you by the will of the Immortan, then returned to the altar room which contains all the steering wheels of warriors past and present.
And the guy playing the flaming guitar (Coma The Doof Warrior) is actually wearing a mask made from his dead mother's face. Also, from page 133: >...anything that looks like leather is probably human skin, as there are no animals visible.
If you love concept art/world building, and want to delve deeper into the world of Fury Road, I highly recommend it.
If you enjoyed those details you should absolutely get yourself The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road. It goes in depth about how they basically designed the entire civilization.
They explain little things, for example how each steering wheel is detachable because it was supposed to be granted to you by the will of the Immortan, then returned to the altar room which contains all the steering wheels of warriors past and present.
And the hanging guy playing the guitar (Coma The Doof Warrior) is actually wearing a mask made from his dead mother's face. Also, from page 133: >...anything that looks like leather is probably human skin, as there are no animals visible.
If you love concept art and want to delve deeper into the world of Fury Road, I highly recommend it.
Nope, we just both pulled from the same sources.
Namely:
https://smile.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Charts-Complete-Atlas/dp/0743437705?sa-no-redirect=1
And
(Which is also based on Star Charts)
I always loved reading the scripts that were included with the "Art of Books", and The Phantom Menace scripted was released with storyboard art. I really wish they'd do this with TFA and TLJ.
The "Annotated Screenplays" book for the original trilogy is an epic read too. https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Screenplays-Laurent-Bouzereau/dp/0345409817
This book is awesome.
It's an annotated script of A New Hope , Empire and Jedi. Keeping in mind Lawrence Kasdan (co)wrote Empire and Jedi, you will also find that all the great, witty lines from A New Hope have an asterisk and are attributed to Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz. Lucas seems great at writing the mystical, philosophical dialogue that we hear from Obi-wan and Yoda but not at sprinkling in humor.
Big picture, George Lucas is awesome but he is not good and writing scrips or directing actors.
Interestingly, in the interviews for the annotated script book Lucas said that he always wanted foils. Every character has someone they are in conflict with: R2D2/C3PO, Han/Obi-wan, Luke/Han and Leia/Han. These continue throughout the trilogy but was missing from prequels...especially from TPM. Everyone gets along too well.
Lucas has also stated that he cast ANH in ensembles. He found the three actors (Harrison Ford, Mark Hamil and Carrie Fisher) who worked best together. The prequels were cast with known, successful actors.
So I always wondered why he didn't repeat the formula that worked for him so successfully before.
If you really want to know the answer to this, you should read the "Deep Space Nine Technical Manual", written by Herman Zimmerman and Rick Sternbach. It completely lays out the work Starfleet did to upgrade DS9.
There are lots of official maps. This one is from This book from 2002. They've also released a high quality stellar cartography book as recently as 2018.
Lucas wrote the screenplay to Empire from start to finish. He threw away Leigh Brackett's draft, the only reason he gave her credit instead was out of respect because she got cancer and died before the movie was finished. Kasdan came on later to punch up the dialogue but the story was all Lucas. You can read Brackett's draft here which has Luke's father and Darth Vader as two separate characters and you can read about it in Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays.
There is the book Star Trek Star Charts which I recall having the Gamma and Delta quadrant maps too. I loved that book. Should still have it somewhere :)
From the size of the Federation presented in Star Charts, (portions of which have been canonized by forming the basis of on-screen maps), very likely. That source presents known space as 1,500 light years in diameter (vs. the galaxy's diameter of over 100,000 light years, making it only a tiny portion of either quadrant.
The Filmmaker's Handbook by Steven Ascher is the closest thing I can think of, although it covers all aspects of filmmaking beyond cinematography so may not get into the level of detail you're looking for.
The terms of my court order require me to recommend this book to anyone who likes Steven Seagal films.
oh make no mistake, i’m obsessed with the insanity that is Steven Seagal (did you know that he suggested to the producers of Executive Decision that his character could have survived being sucked out of the plane and should return for a sequel?). I will watch everything he is in, and be baffled to the point of ecstatic revelation.
if you haven’t already, you should read Vern’s Seagalogy, an exhaustive piece of Seagal scholarship up through Steven Seagal: Lawman. A masterwork
Well it is a classic though, if you do want good star wars lore about all sorts of crazy planets they have from the Legends timeline I recommend Star Wars: The Essential Atlas I will link it down below on Amazon.
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https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Essential-Daniel-Wallace/dp/0345477642
They're not Modiphius books, but rather just general Star Trek reference books. I have both and they're excellent. Starcharts is out of print though (I think), so might be pretty expensive.
Amazon Links:
Starcharts
He's a fascinating guy though. He came out of nowhere, yet his first ever film (Above the Law) was written and produced specifically as a star vehicle for him. Furthermore, his first four films (Above the Law, Hard to Kill, Marked for Death and Out for Justice) were all stone-cold classics. He's sullied his reputation with the low quality of his later films and his ridiculous manner, but there's no doubt he's a phenomenon.
Further to /u/TheChocolateMelted's comment elsewhere, I'd recommend Seagalogy by Vern to any bad movie fan.
The portrayal of the Jamaicans is very over-the-top, and they use the word “blood clot” many times. Screwface is a memorable villain because of his spooky contacts and his crazy dialogue like “Everybody want go heaven. Nobody want dead. Fraid?” and “Stop thee blood clot cryin’. Everybody must dead. It’s yer turn.” In the traditional show-how-evil-the-villain-is scene (think Senator Trent in the hot tub in Hard to Kill) Screwface interrupts a domino game by knocking over the table, tearing off one of its legs and beating a guy with it. They don’t show how he was doing in the game but I betchya ten bucks he was losing, is why he did it. Fuckin Screwface, man. What a fuckin cheapskate. And it’s not like he can’t afford to pay up, either.
https://www.amazon.com/Seagalogy-Updated-Expanded-Ass-Kicking-Steven/dp/0857687220
Seagalogy (Updated and Expanded Edition): A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal
Wasn't expecting a 2+ sentence submission top level comment. Blud-klaat.
Read Seagalogy by Vern. He gets into why the later DTV movies are so incoherent while talking to one of the directors. It’s also a freaking hilarious book: https://www.amazon.com/Seagalogy-Updated-Expanded-Ass-Kicking-Steven/dp/0857687220/ref=nodl_
First of all, as a bonafide Seagalogist, this video is pretty accurate, while it doesn't go into some more finer details, they get the gist of 21st century Seagal. I'd recommend this book as your entry point into the scholarly world of Steven Seagal.
Back To The Future The Ultimate Visual History There is a newer version but this is the one I have.
Do yourself a favour and get a copy of:
The author describes the phases of Seagal's career in great (and very funny) detail.
Well, you can get them from the source itself. But there are lots of copies online of varying resolution, like this.
This Mad Max art book is full of pretty things 😋
u/mc3pio what’s your pretty wishlist item?
$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 :)
This is a beloved part of my personal library. It has maps of the NX-01's travels and areas of significance during that time period. I highly recommend that you purchase a copy:
I think there's a couple different art books out there? I have this one https://www.amazon.com/Art-Mad-Max-Fury-Road/dp/1783298162/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1516896685&sr=8-1&keywords=fury+road+art+book It contains a little bit of storyboard art and concept art, but just fragments. It's a nice book, lots of photos of set stuff that you don't get to see in detail in the movie, but not straight up storyboards.
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