- Paperback: 232 pages
- Publisher: Immedium; 1 edition (July 1 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1597020001
- ISBN-13: 978-1597020008
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 17.9 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,092,954 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the Author
Greg Pak directed his first feature film "Robot Stories" which has played nationwide and won over 30 festival awards. With clients including Nike and Marvel Comics, he edits FilmHelp.com and AsianAmericanFilm.com. One of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 Filmmakers to Watch, Greg studied political science at Yale, history at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and film at NYU's graduate program. David Henry Hwang is a playwright, screenwriter, and librettist, best known as the author of M. Butterfly, which won the 1988 Tony©, Drama Desk, John Gassner, and Outer Critics Circle Awards, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He graduated from Stanford University and attended the Yale School of Drama.
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Robot Stories: 4 Awesome shorts, Jun 28 2006
By Paul W. Young "mr. mud" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Robot Stories: And More Screenplays (Paperback)
Cliff's Notes Review:+ 4 Awesome, distinct stories
+ Novel central theme "human emotions and robots"
+ Represents the Asian American/Mixed-Race Community without beating you over the head with issues.
+ Charming and Provocative like an independant film/Professional and polished like a high-budget studio film.
My Take:
Robot Stories is awesome. Its is broken up into a series of 4 charming shorties, each related around a theme of "how humans develop emotions when dealing with robots". Each story has a distinct perspective on this central theme. For example, one story is about a couple who wants to adopt a child, but must babysit a "robo-baby" to prove their worth as parents, while another is about a mother trying to re-connect to her sick son through his collection of toy robots. I think the final point that I'd like about Robot Stories and Greg Pak as a director was that he was able to represent the Asian American/Mixed Race characters in normal situations. While this may feel like a minor point, its refreshing. Its nice once in a while to see an Asian American on the big screen who isn't a Lucy Lu Dragon lady, or a Connie Chung newscaster, but as a normal protagonist whom i can identify with.
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An exploration of the problems between men and machines, Jun 23 2006
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Robot Stories: And More Screenplays (Paperback)
Filmmaker Pak provides not just the award-winning ROBOT STORIES screenplay, but four other tales which are all infused with considerations about technology. It's not only the futuristic settings which link these plots: it's an exploration of the problems between men and machines, the created and the natural worlds, which creates such a compelling dynamic in these motion pictures. Small black and white shots pepper the account, but it's the screenplays which are the heart of this fine title.Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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Inspiring!!!, Jan 27 2006
By Sarah Santamaria - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Robot Stories: And More Screenplays (Paperback)
I hadn't seen the Robot Stories movie, but a friend of mine did and raved about it. I'd read a few of Pak's comics for Marvel, so I picked up the book and was actually blown away by the amount of thought Pak has put into not just that movie but his career of writing in general. He gives insightful introductions to his many scripts, which run the gamut from sarcastic short spoofs about sex to the recreation of the life of a pioneering surgeon, and finally to the sci-fi feature from the title.This was the first time I've actually read a screenplay, and it is different than reading a novel. But the book gives some helpful tips to make the adjustment easier. After I while I got used to the format to where I could really visualize the actors and actresses talking to each other.
Somehow I think that is one of the points of the book: to make films more accessible and to inspire people to create their own vision. Pak touches upon a lot of issues: from the craft of writing and the challenges of making an independent film to the media images of Asian Americans (David Henry Hwang's foreword is excellent in this regard). So it has something that can appeal to most everybody. But ultimately, I found the collection to be oddly inspiring to the artist hidden in me, and has made me want to see Pak's movies.
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