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  <title><![CDATA[Make Your Own Damn Movie!: Secrets of a Renegade Director]]></title>
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  <default-description>In 25 years, Lloyd Kaufman, along with partner Michael Herz, has built Troma Studios up from a company struggling to find its voice in a field crowded with competitors to legendary status as a lone survivor, a bastion of true independence, and the world greatest collection of camp. Now, Kaufman takes his independent studio style of filmmaking and puts it in the readers hands, showing them how to:Develop and write a knockout screenplay Raise funds for production Find locations and cast actors, hire crew, obtain equipment, permits, and music rights for little or no money Make incredible special effects for 79 cents Charm the people on the film festival circuit Make sure the drunken cameraman keeps the scene in focus Make a bad actor act so badly, theyre good.Kaufman has accumulated a remarkable list of credits, as well as a more extraordinary list of debits to loan sharks and pawn shops across New York. He also had the wisdom to reject Madonna after an audition.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2003</original-publication-year>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a how to book that should be kept away from anyone who is less than completely serious about doing anything at all.  It purports to be a joke, I think, but tells more--both of the nuts and bolts and of the philosophy of art and film--than a lot of the other film making books I've been readin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58233916">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a hilarious and very true book. It also has a funny inclusion from a close friend of mine. But I should count the author as friend and fellow film maker also!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny (and informative!)  shit!  Lloyd Kaufman will have you rolling page after page.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 02 21:36:11 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not nearly as entertaining as All I Need to know about filmmaking, but a great read just the same. There are some tips about how to go about making your own movie, but for the most part just another life account of Troma Studios. I gain more and more respect for Kaufman the more I learn about him, h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4004002">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've always liked the Troma team, and as bad as some of their movies are, I've always enjoyed and supported them as a company.  Lloyd Kaufman has been doing this shit for 30+ years and while he might not have it all figured out, he's sure entertaining and inspiring.  Awesome book.  I can't wait for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28655044">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[whether you make movies or not, this book had me in stitches. My wife made me put it down at night because my attempts to suppress my outright laughter resulted in bed shaking that thwarted my attempts to not wake her.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm only as far as the introduction, and the foreward is hilarious (and I have -- had? -- no love for Trey Parker). Let's hope the book is as entertaining. I'm into all things film since August 19.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 12 12:12:55 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An engaging and very practical guide to guerrilla filmmaking. Making a Troma flick is just as daunting a challenge as helming something like Gangs of New York or Fitzcarraldo.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I give it 5 stars for the philosophy and tips contained within, but 2 stars for the writing.  Choppy, with digressions that are neither entertaining nor informative....]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the kind of book you just thumb through for ridiculous stories and far out crap. Makes me hanker for some tromeo!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The head of the awful film company, Troma, talks about how to...well, make your own damn movie!]]></body>
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