Member Review

This is a sleuthing in the history of the movies from golden period to 70s to early 2021. From Casablanca to Good Will Hunting & Titanic to The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, it is a catechism of dialogues and behind-the-movie scenes.

This is treasure collection for the cinephiles but to me it is not that much parallelized to my likings of books. Such compendiums can only be interesting if the collection contains unknown facts, not the known stories. If there would be one on the reason for why such movies planned or who were initially cast for the respective ones, it could be more interestingly readable to me.

Quoting one such from the book;
“I’m the king of the world!” Titanic (1997)

"Inside the Shrine Auditorium, Cameron’s impression of starving
artist Jack Dawson (twenty-two-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio), standing
atop the ship’s bow and exclaiming “I’m the king of the world!” with a
crack in his throat, was met with applause. It would also plague the staff on
cruise ships and commuter ferries for years to come. “He’s not the king of
anything,” Cameron would later say of Dawson’s touching scene, “but he
felt like he was, at that moment.” On Oscar night, viewers at home seemed
to be witnessing a man whose self-admiration was out of control."

My concern was why such useless info, their could be story about how he planned to cast both the leads of the movie?, but Alas! there was none.

Though there is enough to read I would go with 2-stars, as these info can be arranged from googling articles on the lead cast or directors' interviews or IMDb.