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ideas. "When

in and out of the shadows.

But Eddie wanted to do a shot from

inside the car, in which the camera
would go all the way around. I said,
'That's a great shot, Eddie; I love it.
Now where am I going to put the

lights?' I ended up putting my
gaffer on the roof of the car with a
fishing pole rigged with a light on
the end. We timed it

so

when the

his way

he'd lift the
light up and then let it down as the
camera
passed. The light was also
on a rheostat. I would turn it
up and
camera came

down. So we shot the whole scene
with one little spot coming in the

windshield. And yes,

the
moving the whole time.

car was

"Now that I start

thinking

about it, this whole film was a series

of little challenges," laughs
Villalobos. "I kept saying that this
was the
biggest little show I'd ever
been on. We had cranes and

moves,

have

where you put the camera,

impact."
If Villalobos, Olmos and

Young agreed to any mandate
during preproduction, it was to
make American Me look gritty and
real. As Villalobos himself points
out, "Film is artifice, but I wanted
it to look as real as I could make it
-not 'lit.' I hate that look anyway."
He feels strongly that there is an
indefinable quality of beauty to film
even when the
subject matter is
violent and ugly.
"It is easy to make film
look good; that's one of the things
you have to look out for," he says.
"You have to always be thinking of
what the scene is and what you
want to do with the whole film. We
were

shooting through different

We were in the Forties, the
Fifties and the Eighties. We were in
eras.

prison and out of prison. So I tried
to use different colors. In the prison,
I tried to make it as cold as I could.
I used a lot of blue. Then when he
was

out I warmed it up;

Forties

a

I gave the

golden color."
With its

scenes

of fratri¬

cide, drug dealing and rape (both
of men and women), American Me
clearly is not a film for everyone.
Villalobos confirms, "It is a strong
movie. The message speaks to
very important topics. Some
people are going to love it, and
some people are
going to hate it. It's
some

of those movies. There isn't any
in-between. Some people will be
offended by the violence. Others
will be offended by the fact that we
one

showing the bad things that are
happening in the Latino commu¬
nity. But Eddie believes that since
this is what really happens, you
have to see it to change it. You can't

are

Steadicams, and we even used a
Skyman - an operator flies with a

hide from it."

Steadicam through the air. We used
that for a chase through the alleys
when Santana is young."

finished, it faced the usual array of

In

spite of all the equip¬

Even after the film

was

test screenings and re-edits. And as
Villalobos predicted, some people
hated the movie. Changes were

ment, Villalobos isn't that im¬

made,

pressed with technology. "To me
the most important thing is the
feeling of the lighting," he reflects.

Some of the softer parts were given
more

some scenes were

reshot.

play. After several delays and

best, maybe because I studied art.

misfires, however, the film was
released to strong reviews and
good box office, proving that there

When the

is still

"I like that part of moviemaking the

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"You can't think of every¬

thing," says Villalobos. "You've got
all these people playing parts, stunt
men
doing things. You just can't
think of it all. I just gave him a
general stop and let him go, and
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documentary feel to it, a spontane¬
ity that extends to even the most
controlled situations. One night,
while filming the riots, he told his
operator to set up another camera,
adding, "See what you can get."

May 1992

light is right, then the

a

market for the truth.

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