A waitress joins a foul-mouthed thief on his road trip to California.
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“It was my intention to make a kind of parody of that all-American classic, the road movie; to turn it inside out and show it for what it really is. So, from the outset I wanted two really stupid assholes with whom no one would sympathize.”
Jon Jost1
“Given the minimalist funding, I thought to find every means possible to cut corners. One of these was to construct the entire aesthetic of the film around the then new reality of digital sound, which allowed for pre-mixing without picking up analog tape hiss. Through this I decided to by-pass a traditional mix – usually a costly and slow process – and to organize the shooting so that we would be able to mix in background sounds, voice-over, music into the actual shots, do all the EQ'ing, left-right balance, levels all at the digital level, and then (no NLE's yet) transfer that to 35mm mag and edit directly so that once we'd done the edit, the sound would already be "mixed". To do this required a particular mode of shooting, a bit rigid and formalized, so the entire film was imagined for suiting this kind of aesthetic. […] All of these things ended resulting in a virtual 1 to 1 shooting ratio. I threw away a few shots, maybe 5 minutes out of 100.”
Jon Jost2
- 1Jon Jost, “Filmmaker’s Reflections: Frameup,” Jon Jost’s Personal Website.
- 2Jon Jost, “Filmmaker’s Reflections: Frameup,” Jon Jost’s Personal Website.
