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The Kid Stays in the Picture
2002 · Film · documentary · 93 min
Directed by Brett Morgen, Nanette Burstein
Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans, based on his famous 1994 autobiography.
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In "The Kid Stays In The Picture" (autobiography of Robert Evans, who helped produce The Godfather) he says that Coppola did not initially want to make the film and had to be convinced. He also forced Coppola to make The Godfather longer and pushed back release to do so, in order to tell the fuller story of the family.
I watched the documentary adaptation of his book and it is quite interesting, Paramount helped to pioneer the practice of helping to foster good books for film adaptation - The Godfather being the most notable example.
I prefer film producer Bob Evans version - "There's three sides to every story, your side, my side and the truth".
The book about him, The Kid Stays in the Picture, is one hell of a ride.
Cool. But that’s not what we call the Ken Burns Effect in the industry. This is 2.5 D parallax shift as seen in the documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture.
Ken Burns Effect is panning and zooming to highlight features in a photo then fading into another.
The Kid Stays in the Picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kid_Stays_in_the_Picture
It's an autobiographical film about somebody you probably don't know or would ever care to know. It primarily uses collage (e.g. photographs, press clippings) for the visuals, narrated by the subject.
What's most memorable is just how darn good the film is. It's like your uncle presenting an Oscar-worthy slideshow in his basement. It felt like a masterpiece of film making. No film has ever left such an impression on me. I deeply appreciated and was in awe of its artistic merit. But I haven't seen it since its original release. Maybe it really only works on the big screen or similar environment.