"It had to be brutal in order to show that violence is not fun, it's not like RoboCop." They visualized the murders of the opening scenes with a dispassionate, matter-of-fact presentation, as if a TV news crew had filmed it, and Franklin agreed, as he related to Gross in the same radio program.
#ONE FALSE MOVE 1992 SERIES#
"We wanted to show violence the way it really is," Thornton explained to Terry Gross on the public radio series Fresh Air. Thornton and Epperson talked to Los Angeles police officers and detectives and studied crime scene photos while writing their script. One False Move follows a trio of criminals on the run from a cold-blooded robbery and six murders and two veteran LAPD detectives who fly to a rural Arkansas town to await their arrival with the help of an enthusiastic but naïve small town police chief.
It was a crash course in practical filmmaking, a path taken by such filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Jonathan Demme and Joe Dante, but it was Franklin's AFI thesis film, a dramatic short called Punk (1986), that got him the job. He enrolled in the AFI Conservatory to study directing and supplemented his education with a two-year stint working for Roger Corman as a writer and director and other jobs on exploitation pictures at Concorde Pictures. A veteran stage and TV actor, Franklin made a career change at age 37.
It went into preproduction in early 1990 with a budget of $2.5 million and director Carl Franklin at the helm. Hollywood was interested but it languished at the studios until independent producers Jesse Beaton and Ben Myron shopped it to I.R.S. The original screenplay was written by Billy Bob Thornton, at the time an actor struggling to make a career for himself, with his friend and longtime collaborator Tom Epperson. And it almost skipped theaters entirely for direct-to-video release, a fate it escaped thanks to critics who championed the film. An independent film with richly drawn characters, complex relationships and brutal violence, it was helmed by a filmmaker just breaking out of exploitation pictures and featured a largely unknown cast. One False Move was a startling revelation for audiences who discovered this lean, gritty crime drama in 1992.
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