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2.0 out of 5 stars
Repititive, October 23, 2006
This review is from: On the Art of the Cinema: April 11,1973 (Paperback)
This book is very repititive. If you like books in which things are repeated, this is the book for you because things are repeated in it. This book says the same thing in different ways. Similar ideas are stated in different ways many times in the book. Although stated differently, many times, a sentence states the same idea that was stated previously. This happens many times. Many many ideas are repeated many many times. It gets redundant.
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45 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Masterpiece - will soon be required reading in schools around the world., May 27, 2009
This review is from: On the Art of the Cinema: April 11,1973 (Paperback)
My mind was simply blown away!!! The dear leader is an author par-excellence. Given that it was written in 6 hours flat, this book is nothing short of a masterpiece. It is sad that the biased western media has not recognised the great man's writing abilities. Nor have the reindeer eating ignoramuses in Sweden considered the master for the Nobel Prize for literature. Not that the great man needs one.
In this book, his greatness discusses, in depth, the fine intricacies of various aspects of film making from kidnapping directors and their wives, to ordering people in to movie theatres.
As the person who solely invented 3D cinema, digital projection and bullet time photography, his Kimness can teach a thing or two to posers like Speilberg. But his shortness's abilities are not limited to film production techniques. He directed what is the undoubtedly the greatest movie of all time, Dairy of a Girl Student and also lesser known movies like Star wars, Saving Private Ryan and God Father 1&2. Godfather 3 was not directed by Lil Kim and hence sucked big time.
The Kim man also reveals in the book, his dabblings in alternative cinema, directing and starring in masterpieces like Kim goes South, Interracial Kimming and Kimm until she's Ill, which although is widely considered to be the greatest adult movie ever made, is not available outside due to privacy concerns. Fears of leaking these masterpieces to the western devils is rumoured to be the reason why North Koreans don't have access to the internet. But the movies can apparently be bought on BetaMax in North Korea for an average monthly salary of a North Korean or 1 piece of bread.
To summarise read this book or face the firing squad when the revolution comes.
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47 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not enough on lenses, August 2, 2005
This review is from: On the Art of the Cinema: April 11,1973 (Paperback)
First off, I'm a huge fan of Mr. Jung's work.
"Let's Work On Doubling the Output of the Red Harvest Tractor Factory #8!!!!" was a beautiful little film, all four hours of it. Great rainy day treat, if your work militia collectively owns a dvd player.
This book gets a little heavy on theory however, which is a missed opportunity in my opinion. While Jung's theory on extracting socially realistic acting from kidnapped Japanese soap opera stars was helpful in my latest project, Jung's technical work is so stunning that this book is merely a footnote to an awesome contribution to world cinema, if by world cinema you mean North Korean cinema.
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