'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy'

On Where Eagles Dare

AvGeoff Dyer

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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A Telegraph, Evening Standard and Daily Mail Book of the YearFrom the acclaimed writer and critic Geoff Dyer, an extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of Where Eagles Dare - published as the film reaches its 50th anniversaryA thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a coolly anachronistic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous. 'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' is Geoff Dyer's tribute to the film he has loved since childhood: an analysis taking us from its snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax. For those who have not even seen Where Eagles Dare, this book is a comic tour-de-force of criticism. But for the film's legions of fans, whose hearts will always belong to Ron Goodwin's theme tune, it will be the fulfilment of a dream.'Geoff Dyer's funniest book yet. Who else would work in Martha Gellhorn on the first page of a book on the film Where Eagles Dare?' Michael Ondaatje'One of our greatest living critics, not of the arts but of life itself, and one of our most original writers' Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-10-04
Mått:111 x 181 x 10 mm
Vikt:92 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:128
Förlag:Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:9780141987620

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Andra världskriget inom Historia och arkeologi
Film inom Kultur

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Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and numerous non-fiction books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The winner of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction, Dyer is a regular contributor to many publications in the UK and the US. He lives in California.

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Broadsword Calling Danny Boy is a hilariously funny, freewheeling rule-breaking wholly original scene-by-scene sprint through the crazy action from Where Eagles Dare. I defy anyone not to laugh at Dyer's description of Clint Eastwood's talent for squinting or when face-to-face with armed Nazis, 'not just swinging but squinting in German'.

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Kul om klassisk krigsfilm
Riktigt rolig och ärlig om både den unge Geoffs tankar kring krig och den äldre luttrade författarens ironiska syn på själva produktionen med en alkoholiserad Burton och en ung, cool Eastwood. Och att båda dessa synsätt får plats i samma medvetande. Det finns många roliga detaljer men en jag fastnade för var att ordet "impregnable" ska tolkas som att fästningen, fortet, högkvarteret etc. är ämnat att intas av en kommandostyrka.
Jester
25 maj 2022

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