The Sundance Kids: How the Mavericks Took Back Hollywood Review

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The Sundance Kids: How the Mavericks Took Back Hollywood ReviewMottram's "Sundance Kids" is subtitled "How the mavericks took back Hollywood". Except, of course, in the end they didn't. And that is only the beginning to some of the problems that plague this book (which I bought for a dollar on a sale table at the local book store).
Long on history but short on style, Mottram gives the reader a 3-decade glimpse of what the "mavericks" were up to during the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. Using The Sundance Film Festival as his yardstick, he cherry-picks various directors, writers and producers to cover, showing their beginnings, their inspirations and their cumulative output to date. It's a good primer on art films, outsider films and indy productions and anyone interested in Hollywood as seen through the independent lens will enjoy what content it has to offer from an educational standpoint.
But that's where the enjoyment ends.
The tone of this 512-page encyclopedia of indy films is slanted towards popular writers and directors he obviously loves and it leaves out multitudes of others he apparently does not. Mottram waxes lovingly of Soderburg, Tarentino and the like in an apparent move to stay on the good side, possibly in order to garner future interviews. What's left out are the crass egotistical interviews, on-set tantrums, belligerent badgering and horrifying treatment of actors, set crew and others - most notably from director Russell, whose fights with actors are legendary (see: YouTube's viral video of actor Lily Tomlin tangling with him on the set of I Heart Huckabees and losing her temper after he's made so many instant changes she can't tell which end is up). It's akin to watching a loving biopic by the very directors themselves, wherein almost everything negative is left on the cutting room floor.
Mottram's writing style is pre-college-level at best. Sentence structure is poor in many places and the work does not flow well from one subject to the next. I found it difficult to get through some chapters since his knowledge of subject and predicate seem to be lacking. The absence of these basic writing tenants hurt an otherwise revealing book, but don't let that stop you from reading it. There are very few other books out there like this one - as mediocre as it is.
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