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Cargando... Steve McQueen: A Biography (edición 2012)por Marc Eliot
Información de la obraSteve McQueen: A Biography por Marc Eliot
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  Olivermagnus | Jul 2, 2020 |   If you want to know more about him than that, I suggest you look somewhere other than Marc Eliot’s Steve McQueen: A Biography. In this self-proclaimed “revisionist” biography, Eliot spent little time relating his subject’s biographical details; in fact, the Wikipedia entry on McQueen is more informative about his life than this biography. Eliot devoted fewer than 50 pages to the first 28 years of McQueen’s life and spent very little time exploring any of his personal relationships, preferring instead to focus on the grosses for his movies. Steve McQueen could have succeeded as a critical study of McQueen’s films if Eliot had bothered to apply any criticism to his discussion of them. He related the cast, the budget, and the grosses for all of McQueen’s films, but Eliot’s discussion of each film’s merit is directly related to its box office performance: if it did well, he praises it and if it did poorly, he dismisses it. In the Author’s Notes of Steve McQueen: A Biography, Marc Eliot wrote that he had not found a definitive biography of McQueen. Sadly, he also failed to write one. Received via NetGalley. I originally wrote this for The Chant Online. It is reprinted with permission. (  )2  amanda4242 | Sep 5, 2014 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:Steve McQueen is one of America??s legendary movie stars best known for his hugely successful film career in classics such as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, and The Towering Inferno as well as for his turbulent life off-screen and impeccable style. His unforgettable physical beauty, his soft-spoken manner, his tough but tender roughness, and his aching vulnerability had women swooning and men wanting to be just like him. Today??nearly thirty years after he lost his battle against cancer at the age of fifty??McQueen remains ??The King of Cool.? Yet, few know the truth of what bubbled beneath his composed exterior and shaped his career, his passions, and his private life. Now, in Steve McQueen, New York Times bestselling author, acclaimed biographer, and film historian, Marc Eliot captures the complexity of this Hollywood screen legend. Chronicling McQueen??s tumultuous life both on and off the screen, from his hardscrabble childhood to his rise to Hollywood superstar status, to his struggles with alcohol and drugs and his fervor for racing fast cars and motorcycles, Eliot discloses intimate details of McQueen??s three marriages, including his tumultuous relationships with Neile Adams and Ali MacGraw, as well as his numerous affairs. He also paints a full portrait of this incredible yet often perplexing career that ranged from great films to embarrassing misfires. Steve McQueen, adored by millions, was obsessed by Paul Newman, and it is the nature of that obsession that reveals so much about who McQueen really was. Perhaps his greatest talent was to be able to convince audiences that he was who he really wasn??t, even as he tried to prove to himself that he wasn??t who he really was. With original material, rare photos, and new interviews, Eliot presents a fascinating and complete p No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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McQueen was once the highest-paid film star in the world, a status earned through his roles in films like The Magnificent Seven, Bullitt, The Thomas Crown Affair and The Great Escape, but he also turned down many roles in top-rated films from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to The French Connection.
The author pointed out the difference between the acting philosophies of McQueen and Clint Eastwood. They were only months apart in age, both had lucrative careers in early TV westerns, and both formed their own production companies so they could produce the films they liked. Eliot says that Eastwood kept his eye on the franchise prize, especially with the Harry Callahan series. Instead of following up with more Bullitt movies, McQueen jumped around in genres, often coming up with critical and box office duds. In his forties he took to lazing around, eating junk food, letting his body go, and losing ambition.
It's always disappointing to find out that a favorite actor was really a self absorbed, abusive jerk but I guess many actors need to be narcissists to get ahead in that job.
I did enjoy the way the biography was written. It was well planned out, written in a logical format and very interesting for long time fans. Decades after he lost his battle against cancer, Steve McQueen still remains “The King of Cool.” (