The final feature film (on-screen acting) project for Paul Newman.

читать дальшеOne day, when cinematographer Conrad L. Hall was setting up a shot of Paul Newman,
Hall looked through his viewfinder and began to cry. When asked what was wrong, he just said,
"He was so beautiful. He was so beautiful." Tom Hanks said that when he walks onto sets,
he's used to walking over wires and cables and other lighting and camera equipment;
he said he never had to do that on the set of this film because Hall was so organized.

The movie is loosely based on actual events and a real enforcer for mobster John Looney, who was betrayed by him.

Paul Newman was unanimously the producers' first choice for the part of John Rooney.

According to author Max Allan Collins, real-life gangsters John and Connor Looney's names were changed to Rooney for the film.

The photographs shown in Harlen Maguire's (Jude Law) apartment also appear in a book by Luc Sante titled "Evidence."
According to Sante, the photos are part of a collection held by the Municipal Archives of the City of New York
and were taken by members of the NYPD during the years 1914-1918.

Up until the killing in the warehouse, Michael Sullivan Jr. (Tyler Hoechlin) has little access to his father.
Consequently Sam Mendes made sure that the father figure was always filmed from afar, or through doorways and mirrors, to emphasise this distance.
Once father and son find themselves on the run, this changes, and close-ups are employed more and more frequently.

Jude Law hated his appearance for the film and insisted on wearing a cap every time he wasn't on camera.
Director Sam Mendes insisted that Law also remain paler than all of his co-stars.

@темы: Jude Law, Photo, Cinema, Paul Newman