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Some have known it for a long time, others like Seth Rogen discovered it in 2018: the film noir that Macaulay Culkin watches on VHS in Mom, I missed the planetitled Angels with Filthy Soulswas filmed for the occasion, and is therefore completely false. THE Hollywood Reporter returns to it by interviewing the director of photography of Chris Columbus' cult Christmas comedy, to be seen again this evening on TF1.
Macauley Culkin filmed behind the scenes of Mom I Missed the Plane (and it's so cute)
Julio Macat says that the idea was to “ pay tribute to the Angels with dirty faces [Michael Curtiz, 1938]but we have not examined it from every angle. We wanted to convey the classic gangster film feel. »
Angels with Filthy Souls was filmed “ in one day » in a small library located in Lincoln Park, Chicago, with a black and white Kodak film, with which it was necessary to “ illuminate three or four times more than usual “. The late Ralph Foody played the gangster Johnny, who said this brilliant dialogue after unsoldering Snakes (Michael Guido) who entered his office: “ You can keep the change, I don't mind » (“ Keep the change, you filthy animal », in VO). “ We felt that Foody came from the theater, he was larger than life”, assures Julio Macat, who himself had the idea of paying homage to the cinema of the 1930s. He remembers a submachine gun which made a thunderous noise, and that it did not impress at all Foody: “ He went all out. It was really super loud, which was even better because it made the scene even scarier “.
Macat returned as cinematographer for Mom, I missed the plane again and claims to have told director Chris Columbus, in a joking tone: “ Dude, write the scriptAngels With Filthy Souls. I want to make this film! »
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