All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from The Toxic Avenger explained

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All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger
Author:Lloyd Kaufman and James Gunn
Country:United States
Language:English
Genre:Autobiography
Publisher:Berkley Boulevard
Release Date:1998

All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger is the biography of Lloyd Kaufman, co-written by Kaufman himself and James Gunn. The book was published by Berkley Boulevard (a subsidiary of Penguin Putnam) in 1998.

Kaufman is the co-founder of B-movie company Troma Entertainment and the director of such films as The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke 'Em High, and Terror Firmer. The book was written by both Kaufman and screenwriter James Gunn; they had previously collaborated on the 1996 film Tromeo and Juliet.[1] Gunn went on to more mainstream prominence as the writer of Dawn of the Dead (2004) and the writer-director of Slither (2006) and the Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).

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The book has an introduction by B-movie producer Roger Corman.[2]

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Gunn explained:

Most of the scenes are real, though the dialogue had to be recreated. Some scenes, however, are pretty much fantasies – for instance, the fight scenes between Lloyd and Pat, and most of the stuff between Lloyd and the editor, Barry (who loved being our villain). In non-fiction, veracity is only important with people who might sue you. In a lot of ways the book was practice for melding fiction and fact, as I did in a more shadowy manner in The Toy Collector. Still, Lloyd's hyperactive voice was so clearly in my head that I think the book is an accurate representation of who he is.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Craig . David . 2019-03-18 . Lloyd Kaufman Q&A: Troma Legend on Hollywood, James Gunn and 'Toxic Avenger' Reboot . 2023-05-16 . Movies and Cool Stuff . en.
  2. Web site: Interview with Lloyd Kaufman - acid logic . 2023-05-16 . www.acidlogic.com.
  3. Web site: Tromatized Interview with James Gunn - Horror Meets Comedy. . 2008-12-31 . 2009-02-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081011053704/http://tromatized.tromamovies.com/interviews/jamesgunn.htm . 2008-10-11.