Review: The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
- Megan // thebookishnarwhal
- Jun 16, 2023
- 2 min read
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𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫: Tom Hanks 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 09 May 2023
I wanted to love this book because of how much I love Tom Hanks. I was gently reminded that acting and writing are not the same craft. I found The Making of Another Major Motion Picture by Tom Hanks jumped around in the beginning and gave too much precursor information before getting to the meat-and-potatoes of the story.
The story follows a film director and his crew as they film the next big hit superhero movie. The filming takes place in the small town of Lone Butte, California, and the story strives to enlighten readers that the making of a movie is a creative, unpredictable, and chaotic experience.
Hanks has a pleasant, upbeat tone to his writing yet while I appreciate well-written and complex characters, it seemed as if every character in this story was given a full backstory. As someone with a writing background (journalism school was my formal training), I found the number of run-on sentences to be annoying. I almost took out my red pen but then remembered I was reading a digital copy.
There were also an obscene number of footnotes, in my humble opinion. If it were a work of non-fiction I would understand, but this is general fiction Mr. Hanks and I found the footnotes to disrupt the flow of the story. The editor needed to hear the wise words I was given before interviewing my first notable: everybody poops. This book read like the editor was afraid, to be honest and give constructive criticisms, or that they were given yet ignored.
Thank you to Netgalley, Penguin Random House Canada, and Knopf Canada for an eARC in exchange for my honest review!
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