The Hulk: The Illustrated Screenplay (Pictorial Moviebook)
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The Hulk: The Illustrated Screenplay (Pictorial Moviebook) Details
From Publishers Weekly Although Ang Lee's film version of the classic Marvel comic book series has been getting less than stellar reviews, it features some wildly ambitious special effects. However, readers hoping to get a glimpse of how those effects were produced might be disappointed in this effort, since the bulk of the book consists of the rather dry screenplay (and lines like "Hulk sniffs the air. His eyes narrow. A snarl" don't exactly make for riveting reading). In his foreword, Lee admits the shooting script "is only a shadow of the adventures we had along the way." This work shows a few of those adventures, such as how the film's producers used real-time storyboards with motion to come up with shots, and how they projected a "sense of soul" onto the Hulk. Sidebars on creating the Hulk's facial expressions, designing the scientists' costumes (no lab coats, so they appeared "as realistically as possible") and building sets that were meant to be "obliterated" by the Hulk enliven the somewhat dull text.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. Read more About the Author James Schamus is the CEO ofFocus Features as well as a Professorin Columbia University's School ofthe Arts, where he teaches film historyand theory. His script for The IceStorm (which Ang Lee directed) wonthe Best Screenplay Award at theCannes Film Festival.Ang Lee won the Academy Award®for Best Director for BrokebackMountain and also received an Oscar®nomination for directing CrouchingTiger, Hidden Dragon (from the scriptby James Schamus).Schamus and Lee have also collaboratedas writer and director onLust, Caution; Hulk; Ride with the Devil; Eat, Drink, Man,Woman; The Wedding Banquet; and Pushing Hands.Stan Lee is the creator of SpiderMan and the force behind Marvel Comics. Read more
Reviews
MANY PEOPLE WHO EXPECT THE MOVIE TO BE JUST ANOTHER BIG EMPTY HOLLYWOOD FX-FEST WOULD BE TURNED OFF BY WHAT THEY SAW. YET IT WAS ANG LEE'S DIFFERENT APPROACH TO THE HULK THAT MAKES THE STORY AN INTERESTINGLY UNUSUAL SUPERHERO FILM. THIS BOOK SPOTLIGHT MANY DIFFERENT ASPECTS FROM THE MOVIE FROM FX TO THE CAST AND SCRIPT. WITHOUT BEING TOO LAVISH, IT IS AN ENTERTAINING READ HOWEVER.
