The desert will again be a hotbed of deceit and larceny in luxurious black-and-white as the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival returns to Palm Springs this Thursday through Sunday, with the quintessen…
’s producing partner for several of his best early films, who’ll be able to speak first-hand about the making of 1955’s “The Killing,” the crime drama that turned out to be Kubrick’s first real masterpiece.
In a phone conversation with Rode, Harris talked a bit about the origins and makings of “The Killing,” offering a preview of the dialogue they’ll have during the festival’s opening night Thursday . “Actually when we finished the film, everyone who we screened it for actually suggested that we reedit the picture into a straight-line story because flashbacks would irritate the audience. Because once you bring them to the point where the robbery’s gonna take place and then you flash back to stuff all over again with the different participants, they said the audience is really going to be irate, and you’re gonna have a real problem on the word of mouth.
“I suppose I compare making movies to playing jazz,” said the producer. “Jazz is based on improvisations and variations on the melody. Jazz is an unpopular form of music because it’s too sophisticated for people — because, once the melodic line is stated, then the improvisation takes place and the variations, based on the chords that support the melody, and people lose track of it. Once they lose track of the melody, then they’re lost, and so they don’t appreciate what’s going on.
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