The film Gun Crazy gives an important example of characters being consumed by several damaging fixations, namely the allure of femme fatales and possessing a dangerous gun fetish. This film is a psychological tale, as film author Foster Hirsch notes in his book The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, “Gun Crazy makes passing stabs at a variety of meaty subjects: the place of violence in American life; the link between violence and sex; the emasculating obsession with masculinity” (Hirsch 195). The crime wave of the past decades (1930s and 1940s) during which the film takes place left an indelible mark on American society, the lure of easy money by simply robbing people with using a loaded gun, and the lure of sexually charge women coupled with
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Any last minute changes usually takes place in post-production, and might entail changing the music, adding voice-overs, narration, dubbing, recalling the principle actors for adding pickup shots (changes in costume, location, and adding new scenes), and even altering the name of the entire movie to help sell it to the masses, as John Grant mentions in his book A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir: The Essential Reference Guide, “a flop on first release as Deadly Is the Female, this was re-release the following year (1950) under the current title and has been widely hailed as among Hollywood’s very finest B-movies” (Grant …show more content…
Lewis is the director of Gun Crazy, a superb and adaptable director primarily of B-movies (low-budget westerns, action pictures and thrillers) with a career spanning over 30 years in Hollywood. Lewis gains his skills while working in Hollywood as a professional camera assistant in the 1920s, “and further honed them in the MGM editorial department in the early '30s. After that Lewis edited serials at Republic and served the remainder of his apprenticeship as second unit director. He was signed to a full directing contract by Universal in 1937” (imdb, bio). Lewis had the special capacity to hold his unique creative vision despite studio restrictions, “A master of expressive lighting, tight close-ups, tracking and crane shots and offbeat camera angles and perspectives, Lewis possessed an instinctive sense of visual style, which imbued even the most improbable of his B-grade westerns and crime melodramas” (imdb,
Any last minute changes usually takes place in post-production, and might entail changing the music, adding voice-overs, narration, dubbing, recalling the principle actors for adding pickup shots (changes in costume, location, and adding new scenes), and even altering the name of the entire movie to help sell it to the masses, as John Grant mentions in his book A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir: The Essential Reference Guide, “a flop on first release as Deadly Is the Female, this was re-release the following year (1950) under the current title and has been widely hailed as among Hollywood’s very finest B-movies” (Grant …show more content…
Lewis is the director of Gun Crazy, a superb and adaptable director primarily of B-movies (low-budget westerns, action pictures and thrillers) with a career spanning over 30 years in Hollywood. Lewis gains his skills while working in Hollywood as a professional camera assistant in the 1920s, “and further honed them in the MGM editorial department in the early '30s. After that Lewis edited serials at Republic and served the remainder of his apprenticeship as second unit director. He was signed to a full directing contract by Universal in 1937” (imdb, bio). Lewis had the special capacity to hold his unique creative vision despite studio restrictions, “A master of expressive lighting, tight close-ups, tracking and crane shots and offbeat camera angles and perspectives, Lewis possessed an instinctive sense of visual style, which imbued even the most improbable of his B-grade westerns and crime melodramas” (imdb,