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Synopsis
Profiles the real persons who influenced the creation of films such as "The Fugitive," "Raiders of the Lost Ark," and "Saving Private Ryan."
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Harold Schechter and David Everitt have written several books together. On his own, Schechter is the author of a bestselling series of true crime books, including Deviant and Deranged.
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Film buffs Schechter (Deviant) and Everitt (editor of Fangoria magazine) survey a range of popular films and the real-life events that inspired them. Each movie discussed here--including All the King's Men (based on the life of politician Huey Long), Badlands (about spree killer Charlie Starkweather), Hoosiers (Indiana's Milan High School), and Saving Private Ryan (the Niland brothers)--gets its own chapter; chapters are arranged in alphabetical order, by film title. But the truth is, the book's premise is thin--almost every movie ever made has some (usually uninteresting) relation to real life. Much like many of the films in Joseph Roquemore's History Goes to the Movies (LJ 11/1/99), the movies highlighted here often end up to be only tenuously connected to authentic characters and incidents. (True, there was a mother-fixated human taxidermist named Ed Gein, but he didn't run a motel or behave exactly the way Anthony Perkins did in Psycho.) For specialized film collections only.
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