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I'll Be in My Trailer: The Creative Wars Between Directors and Actors
Written by John Badham and Craig Modderno
Narrated by John Badham
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About this audiobook
This no-holds-barred guide provides proven techniques for getting best performances out of actors and includes stories culled from Sydney Pollack, Mel Gibson, and more.
Author
John Badham
John Badham is the award-winning director of such classic films as Saturday Night Fever, Stakeout, and WarGames. Badham is a professor of Film and Media at Chapman University.
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Reviews for I'll Be in My Trailer
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The book is great and it is good to hear straight from John Badham. The audiobook production could be improved, though. It doesn't seem like any care was taken to adapt the text from print to audio.
For example, there is a huge section at the start with a long list of names and achievements. I was totally lost. That works fine in print since you can just skip it, but it should have been moved to the end of the audiobook. There were also times when Badham was reading and it just wasn't making sense and it took me a while to clue in that he was reading a section written by Moderno. Also, the part at the end where Badham talks about himself in the third person makes no sense in an audiobook.