The Grip of Film
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Narrated by:
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Richard Ayoade
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Jesse Eisenberg
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Jon Korkes
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Written by:
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Richard Ayoade
About this listen
You SLUG the guy.
You KISS the dame.
You TOTAL the car.
That's movies. And I love 'em.
Gordy LaSure's passionate about film. He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he'll even watch a film. But most of all, he loves talking about film, and how they'd be a shit-ton better if only people would pull their asses out of their ears and listen to Gordy LaSure.
The voyage of this audiobook can be categorised as an attempt to understand How In Hell Film Works. Why are some films bad and some films terrible? How come just a handful of films (Titanic, Porky's, Dirty Harry) are any good at all? Gordy'll tell you How and Why, and he'll give you a shot of Wherefore on the side. And he doesn't shoot from the hip; he shoots from the gut.
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- J Cockerill
- 2022-11-03
Absolutely Hilarious
This is a great book. Absolutely hilarious. Another awesome book by Ayoade. You won't be disappointed.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-08-12
Hilarious with Outstanding Narration
While I respect the work, I usually don’t think about narrators providing a dramatic performance that adds substantially to the text. However, Ayoade, Eisenberg, and Korkes find additional humour in an already hilarious text. The same applies to Ayoade in Ayoade on Top.
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