{"id":3228,"date":"2026-07-08T06:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2026-07-08T06:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:06:19","slug":"author-david-thomson-on-how-screen-antiheroes-led-to-trump-why-his-dictionary-wont-be-updated-and-his-next-book-subject-mickey-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3228","title":{"rendered":"Author David Thomson on How Screen Antiheroes Led to Trump, Why His \u2018Dictionary\u2019 Won\u2019t Be Updated and His Next Book Subject: Mickey Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>David Thomson<\/strong> is a revered British writer on film \u2014\u00a0a critic, historian and author of more than 40 books \u2014 who has been described by the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> as \u201cwithout doubt, the greatest living film historian\u201d; by the <em>New York Times<\/em> as \u201camong the most ardent cinephiles of the past half-century\u2026 sometimes, his books deliver greater pleasures than the multiplex\u201d; and by <em>The Atlantic<\/em> as the writer of \u201cthe most fun and enthralling prose about the movies since Pauline Kael.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3226\">Why \u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019 Won\u2019t Be Scoring Any Emmy Nominations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"pmc-protected-embed\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" id=\"pmc-protected-embed-2\" loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=PMC4293127853\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thomson is best known for a giant tome that was first published in 1975 under the title <em>A Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema<\/em>, and that was updated and reissued five times since, most recently in 2014, as <em>The New Biographical Dictionary of Film<\/em>. In it, he profiles a wide array of figures from across film history \u2014 from household names like Cary Grant and Julia Roberts to behind-the-scenes masters like graphic artist Saul Bass and film editor and sound designer Walter Murch\u00a0\u2014 with not just facts but also opinions, which are often contrarian and always thought-provoking.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Biographical Dictionary<\/em> was selected, in a 2023 survey of film industry heavyweights conducted by <em>THR<\/em>, as one of the 100 greatest film books of all time, and in a 2010 poll of critics and writers coordinated by <em>Sight and Sound<\/em> as the single best film book of all time. The late film critic Roger Ebert once declared that it \u201cdoes the best job in the fewest words of capturing the essence of its hundreds of subjects,\u201d and the award-winning author Geoff Dyer has described it as \u201cnot only an indispensable book about cinema, but one of the most absurdly ambitious literary achievements of our time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomson\u2019s latest book, <em>A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies<\/em>, was published by Simon &amp; Schuster on Tuesday and became an instant bestseller on Amazon. In it, the former Dartmouth College professor dissects the evolution of the medium and provocatively argues\u00a0that the glorification of anti-heroes on screens big and small over the course of the past century \u2014 from <em>Citizen Kane<\/em>\u2019s Charles Foster Kane to the Corleones of the <em>Godfather<\/em> films to the most memorable figures of Peak TV, such as <em>The Sopranos<\/em>\u2019 Tony Soprano and <em>Breaking Bad<\/em>\u2019s Walter White\u00a0\u2014 helped to pave the way for the presidency of Donald Trump and other assorted global problems.<\/p>\n<p>On this episode of <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>\u2019s <em>Awards Chatter<\/em> podcast, the 85-year-old, speaking via Zoom from his home in San Francisco, reflected on how a humiliating childhood stammer sparked a fascination with language and a desire to express his views; how he wound up being asked to write a book for the first time, which became 1967\u2019s <em>Movie Man<\/em>, and how the first edition of the <em>Biographical Dictionary<\/em> took shape just a few years later; why, of all his books, he is proudest of a trilogy that he wrote that blended fact and fiction; why, in recent years, his books have tended to focus on the impact of movies on those who watch them; plus much more.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the full conversation via the audio player atop this post or any major podcast app; or you can read memorable excerpts, some lightly edited for clarity and\/or brevity, below.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On how a humiliating childhood stammer sparked a fascination with language and a desire to express his views\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stammer was easily the single most distressing thing about my childhood\u2026 I was barely able to say a word, and I felt tremendous embarrassment about that, and a sort of shame\u2026 It made me very angry because there were things I wanted to say\u2026 I do think that that triggered a love of language and an urge to speak out. And although once upon a time I had dreamed of being an actor, the stammer was bad enough that I internalized speech. I do think that it was a tremendous sort of energy that drove me towards writing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On being asked to write a book for the first time, which became 1967\u2019s<\/em> Movie Man<em>\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in publishing. I had a friend at another publishing house who had talked to me and knew how interested in film I was. And he said, \u2018Would you look at a manuscript we\u2019ve just had submitted about film and give us a report on it?\u2019 I gave a report on it and nothing happened. But then about two months later, the same guy called me and said, \u2018We were looking at your report and we just got the idea that maybe <em>you<\/em> could write a book about film.\u2019 I had not dreamed of writing a book before then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3224\">\u2018The Man Will Burn\u2019 Review: HBO\u2019s Burning Man Docuseries Boasts Impressive Access, but Sticks Too Close to the Photogenic Surface<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On the backstory of the <\/em>Biographical Dictionary<em>\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea was initially to have an encyclopedia, and there would be entries on technical terms, on national cinemas and on leading figures. It was reckoned to be a big book in terms of length, and I went away and started writing it \u2014 and I found that I was sort of carried away by writing the biographical entries on people, and I wasn\u2019t doing the other parts of the book. I showed what I had to the publisher and said, \u2018I don\u2019t know whether you\u2019ll approve of what I\u2019ve been doing.\u2019 They looked at it and they said, \u2018Yes, we do approve. Go on like that.\u2019 So it became a book of biographical sketches of directors, actors, actresses, producers, writers and a few other people\u2026 Over the years and six editions, which is what the book has had now, it became recognized as a provocative but useful and stimulating book. And it\u2019s certainly the best-selling book I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On why there will not be further editions of the <\/em>Biographical Dictionary<em>\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe book, in its latest form, might be twice as long as the first edition. It had grown enormously\u2026 It\u2019s over a thousand pages now, and to keep going at that rate, it would be hard to bind and hold in the hand. In other words, there would have to have been two volumes. And I think that alarmed publishers, and for good reason\u2026 The book got sort of outdated technologically, as a form. And Knopf, the publisher of the book over here [in the United States], reached a point where they said, \u2018We\u2019re not sure it\u2019s economically viable to go on making this book bigger and bigger and bigger, when already most of the people who would be potential buyers for the book have one edition, or maybe two or even three, because they\u2019ve been keeping up.\u2019 So they came to the decision, which sort of pained me at the time, that no, they would not do a seventh edition. That meant that I was able to stop making notes in the way I had been. And I now see, which maybe they saw and didn\u2019t really want to tell me, that I was getting to be a little too old for the labor, which was fairly intense. So I was sort of freed from it, in a way. And there will not be another edition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On his trilogy of metafiction \u2014 1985\u2019s <\/em>Suspects<em>, 1990\u2019s <\/em>Silver Light<em> and 2023\u2019s <\/em>Connecticut<em>\u00a0\u2014 of which he is prouder than any of his other books\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA publisher came to me after the <em>Dictionary<\/em> appeared and said they loved the format of biographical sketches\u2026 and they said, \u2018What about a dictionary of characters from films?\u2019 I loved the idea and I thought about it and I said, \u2018I think that could be terrific, but I don\u2019t think you can mix genres. I think the whole book would have to be characters from one genre or another.\u2019 And film noir was the obvious one to start with. So I proposed a book that would be, let\u2019s say, a hundred characters from film noir, and I would write a biographical sketch that included what we know about the character from the films they\u2019re in, but would also go back beforehand and then afterwards so that you would tell the story of a character as if the movie was just one part of that life, and that turned into <em>Suspects<\/em>. It\u2019s now called a metafiction, but as I was doing it it seemed to me that it was fiction, but a kind of film commentary that got at what the films were most about. That was a turning point for me because I discovered, by doing it, a genre that was <em>me<\/em>: the absolute confusion of fact and fiction. And over the years, I have done two more books, <em>Silver Light<\/em>, which is the western, and <em>Connecticut<\/em>, which is the screwball comedy. I do feel that those are the trilogy of books that I would offer for the best I\u2019ve done and probably will ever do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On his controversial 2006 book <\/em>Nicole Kidman<em>\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was trying to get at who she is and what she had done, but also about what she meant as an iconic figure. And this book was done a while ago, when she was still a young woman. She\u2019s gone on to a middle-aged career, and obviously she\u2019s going to become an old lady, and she\u2019s interesting enough and smart enough to make those periods as interesting as when she was a very young, very hot, sexy woman. I\u2019m not saying she isn\u2019t sexy still. But I did get a lot of flak for it, and teasing, based upon the idea that I had a great crush on her. I liked her very much. But I don\u2019t think I had a crush on her. Not that I don\u2019t have crushes on people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On how screen antiheroes helped to pave the way for the presidency of Donald Trump\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is something dreadful about <em>The Godfather<\/em>. It\u2019s, let us say, one of the best-made films ever. It did hugely well at the box office. It won prizes, deservedly so. But it is about a shaming fantasy. The guys who watch it \u2014\u00a0and it\u2019s really a guys\u2019 film \u2014\u00a0want to be in that gang. They find the security and the companionship so attractive and so appealing that they dream of being Corleones. And I think that is a terribly dangerous situation. And I\u2019ve been prompted particularly in this line of thought by the realization that we have a president [Trump] who clearly, in my view, is acting as if he\u2019s in a movie, and it\u2019s like a version of <em>The Godfather<\/em> \u2014 I mean, it is the emperor as a gangster. And I don\u2019t think that process is one that film buffs can simply write off. I think it\u2019s in the nature of the medium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On his current feelings about film versus television\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re kidding ourselves if we don\u2019t understand that <em>Ozark<\/em> or <em>Babylon Berlin<\/em> or any of those long form series are <em>movies<\/em>. They\u2019re like old-fashioned serials \u2014 you follow them for 40, 50, 60 hours. We found a way of making films that virtually go on forever, and the audience loves them\u2026 You can\u2019t think of making a list of the great American movies of the last 30 years without including <em>The Sopranos<\/em>, <em>Breaking Bad<\/em>, <em>Ozark<\/em> and several others. They are the great works. They\u2019re beautifully made in the way in which they\u2019re shot and acted and written \u2014\u00a0very high quality work \u2014\u00a0and they\u2019re about the <em>real<\/em> country in a way that the movies simply don\u2019t match these days. A time came where, for me, it became increasingly clear that what was being shown on my television screen was actually more compelling than what was being shown on movie screens, and that it was silly not to take account of that and recognize it. So I have spent more and more time watching those things and writing about them. I think they\u2019re central to the modern experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On how he manages to be such a prolific writer\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t sleep very much, which is a problem, but it gives me more time. And also, for decades now, I have had issues of depression \u2014\u00a0manic depression \u2014\u00a0and nothing treats them better than writing. Composing, for me, is not just composing a sentence or a book, it\u2019s composing myself, my inner-self. So I do it to stay well and to stay alive, really. There\u2019s something profoundly organic about it for me. I <em>have<\/em> to write. And really, if I don\u2019t write for two days in a row, I get very edgy, and I\u2019m likely to get very depressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3222\">Uwe Boll Rips His Critics While Defending Armie Hammer Movie: \u201cOpen Your Eyes\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On the subject of the book he\u2019s writing now\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMickey Mouse.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Thomson, a critic, historian and author of more than 40 books including A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies, chats with THR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2372,2373,927,36,2374],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-a-sudden-flicker-of-light","tag-awards-chatter","tag-awards-chatter-podcast","tag-books","tag-david-thomson"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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