I picked this book up because curiosity killed the kitten who went over her head. Still, I truly enjoyed reading it, even though I had to consult (a lot) the glossary at the end of the book and the internet. I am sure movie people will love and understand it more thoroughly.

In the book, there is a section for the technology and the 120-year-old history of cinema, which is short enough and very well written.

I loved to read about the artists' rehearsals and the games they played, and that Coppola has his actors eat together so they can bond and work better. I also loved the snippets from the author’s diaries at the end of the book. From what I understood, Coppola gives much importance to live performances and dislikes the attempts of theater productions to be cinematic. Also, cameras and lenses are important to him because of the photographic quality they can impart to the movies and eventually to live cinema.

Since live Cinema will be the logical union or result of theater, film, and television, it will have its own set of problems such as the marks on the floor that show the actors where to stand and where to move, in addition to a load of technical problems. As to the question why live cinema would be better, Coppola says he doesn’t know the answer exactly.

I especially liked him saying, “I find it interesting that the theater in the late nineteenth century was formulaic, just as our studios’ films have become.”

The book is in thirteen chapters and very interesting to read, even for me. I think I may have learned a thing or two.

learning about and peeking into the future of the movies, TV, and theater and what one producer thinks on the subject.

everything.

is Francis Ford Coppola, the Academy-Award–winning director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, who is creating a four-part "live cinema" movie based on his own family’s multigenerational history. He lives in San Francisco.

One can learn from it.

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