Comments on: Listen: 1.5 Hour Conversation With Peter Bogdanovich On Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast https://staging2.theplaylist.net/listen-1-5-hour-conversation-with-peter-bogdanovich-on-marc-marons-wtf-podcast-20150828/ Mon, 23 May 2016 02:26:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Michael https://staging2.theplaylist.net/listen-1-5-hour-conversation-with-peter-bogdanovich-on-marc-marons-wtf-podcast-20150828/#comment-126126 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:26:43 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/listen-1-5-hour-conversation-with-peter-bogdanovich-on-marc-marons-wtf-podcast-260392/#comment-126126 Bogdanovich\’s memory about that western screenplay with McMurtry is conveniently self-aggrandizing and incorrect. That western screenplay written by McMurtry was only 75 pages long, and was owned by a major studio. McMurtry later purchased the screenplay back from the studio and set out to write a novel (Lonesome Dove) which Bogdanovich had nothing to do with, nor did he have any input upon. The novel is 843 pages long; McMurtry\’s first draft manuscript of LD was over 1,500 pages long. It might be noted that once Bogdanovich\’s former wife Polly Platt was no longer involved with his films, his career took a downhill slide. It was Polly who read Last Picture Show and urged him to consider the book as a film, which Oscar-nominated screenplay was co-written by McMurtry. McMurtry\’s first draft of that screenplay was overly long and whittled down by the both of them.

]]> By: gatsby1040 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/listen-1-5-hour-conversation-with-peter-bogdanovich-on-marc-marons-wtf-podcast-20150828/#comment-126127 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:26:43 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/listen-1-5-hour-conversation-with-peter-bogdanovich-on-marc-marons-wtf-podcast-260392/#comment-126127 "Targets” being a hybrid film he was left to clean up, arguably isn’t his true first movie" —

This is pretty misleading; Corman had Karloff on contract for two days work, and offered in addition unused footage from THE TERROR, which starred Karloff, and gave Bogandovich carte blanche (within budget limits) to write and direct a movie that used both. TARGETS was the surprisingly ingenious result — a thriller in the Hitchcock vein that is also a tribute to Karloff, and the movies in general, with enough metacinematic touches to fill an academic essay. It is absolutely his first film, and if not as polished and immaculate as the next three, deserves to be much more seen than it is.

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