The story of a behind-the-scenes look at the production of a superhero blockbuster doubles as a love letter to Hollywood's past while offering an optimistic view of its future.
with a movie named Knightshade: The Lathe of Firefall, and the book titled The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, I struggle so very hard to understand that this book is 100% sincere
From this review, it seems quite a bit like there is no central conflict of the story? Like, you mentioned that there is a point that the film production goes off the rails and he uses the Casablanca anecdote, etc. but does this come around the midway point, and does it sustain through the rest of the novel or is it quickly dealt with and moved on? Because if the latter, then that to me is what is really lacking here - no central conflict that makes the choices characters make and what ends up happening interesting (even "everything turned out happily ever after" endings are earned when there's some substantial struggle to get there).
I must say -- I kind of find it comforting that writer Tom Hanks seems exactly like the person I imagine Tom Hanks to be. Just imagine if he ended up writing Lolita V2 instead of this book...the world would make even less sense.
with a movie named Knightshade: The Lathe of Firefall, and the book titled The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, I struggle so very hard to understand that this book is 100% sincere
Let’s be real, he just wanted to finally use his typewriters for something, right?
From this review, it seems quite a bit like there is no central conflict of the story? Like, you mentioned that there is a point that the film production goes off the rails and he uses the Casablanca anecdote, etc. but does this come around the midway point, and does it sustain through the rest of the novel or is it quickly dealt with and moved on? Because if the latter, then that to me is what is really lacking here - no central conflict that makes the choices characters make and what ends up happening interesting (even "everything turned out happily ever after" endings are earned when there's some substantial struggle to get there).
I must say -- I kind of find it comforting that writer Tom Hanks seems exactly like the person I imagine Tom Hanks to be. Just imagine if he ended up writing Lolita V2 instead of this book...the world would make even less sense.