Cathching the Big Fish
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This is a book that is very different to read for those who want to know a little bit more about what happens behind the scenes of David Lynch films.
The book provide good information about meditation and creativity, with an unique touch of this peculiar director. David Lynch shows how much he got in experience and improvement through these 30 years working with films, has much of his personal vision about the Transcendental Meditation and the whole creative process that has existed since of the screenplay until the final projection on the big screen.
For those who know their movies, it is already expected a surreal story, but in this book he also explains processes of making a movie, like the casting, locations, editing and more .
Also their predictions about the future of cinematography, and we will be able to understand a little bit more the lysergic David Lynchs mind.
David Lynch is one of the biggest names in cult cinema, having been nominated for an Oscar three times. His works have a reputation for being complicated by the fact that he usually displays its a dream world created by him and who apparently has no meaning to others. He builds his films in an idiosyncratic network that reaches a headache on who is willing to analyze them.
Those who think that Lynch is too reserved, will change of opinion while reading this story because it tells much of his personal life, his thoughts sometimes children, and even his reaction to the new discoveries. He is not someone who is bound to the past. He tells how it is sometimes required to join new technologies such as digital filmmaking for example, and how it can bring benefit. He also talks about his favorite directors, including Billy Wilder, Hitchcock, Fellini and Kubrick. We also know his multifaceted artistic side, since Lynch is a filmmaker, musician, painter, designer and still makes himself as a writer.