Production
The film's non-Hollywood realism can be explained by its origins. First came "Streetwise," a series of documentary photographs of Seattle street kids, for Life magazine, by Mary Ellen Mark. Next Mark and her husband, Martin Bell, produced a documentary film called "Streetwise." The screenplay for "American Heart," the fictionalized dramatization, was based on this material.
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Famous quotes containing the word production:
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
“The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.”
—Ernest Gellner (b. 1925)
“An art whose limits depend on a moving image, mass audience, and industrial production is bound to differ from an art whose limits depend on language, a limited audience, and individual creation. In short, the filmed novel, in spite of certain resemblances, will inevitably become a different artistic entity from the novel on which it is based.”
—George Bluestone, U.S. educator, critic. “The Limits of the Novel and the Limits of the Film,” Novels Into Film, Johns Hopkins Press (1957)