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Duración: 81 min.
País: EE.UU.
Director: Michael Roemer
Producción: Michael Roemer, Robert M. Young
Guión: Michael Roemer
Música: Frank Lewin
Fotografía: Robert M. Young
Reparto: Martin Priest, Ben Lang, Maxine Woods, Henry Nemo, Jacques Taylor,
Jean Leslie, Ellen Herbert, Sandra Kazan, Ronald Coralian, Max Ulman.
Sinopsis: Un mafioso judío de poca monta sale de la cárcel y está en un dilema: recuperar el dominio de las apuestas en su barrio,
controlado ahora por asiáticos, afroamericanos e hispanos, o recuperar a su familia.
controlado ahora por asiáticos, afroamericanos e hispanos, o recuperar a su familia.
Uno de los mayores éxitos de los festivales de Toronto y Nueva York de 1989 fue la película independiente de Michael Roemer «The Plot Against Harry», una comedia en blanco y negro protagonizada por desconocidos realizada veinte años antes.
Roemer, que escribió y dirigió la aclamada «Nothing But a Man» pensó que «Harry» era un fracaso. Después de completarla organizó pases para reparto, equipo y amigos. A nadie le gustó «Harry» y la película nunca fue estrenada. «Harry» nunca habría visto la luz si Roemer no hubiese decido pasar todas sus películas a vídeo como regalo para sus hijos hace dos años.
Cuando el ingeniero que realizaba la transferencia de «Harry» reía histéricamente con la película, Roemer decidió que era el momento adecuado. Hizo dos copias de 35mm y las mandó a los festivales de cine de Nueva York y Toronto. Ambos aceptaron la película. «Harry» fue estrenada en cines con gran acogida a inicios de 1990.
Los Angeles Times. 26.05.1991
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Roemer talked about "Harry" with Susan King.
- Are you still shocked over the success of "The Plot Against Harry"?
I suppose I am over it. It's been a year since it came out. I kind of put it behind me. It was 20 years old when it came out. I can't think about it now. You have to live with movies for a long time after you make them. That's the way the industry works. So I always try to get it behind me and get on to something new.
This has been a very good experience. I really assumed "Harry" was a failure.
- Did people not understand "Harry" back in 1969?
They didn't get it at all. None of my friends got it. I only remember one person who really loved the film. Everybody else found it confusing and unfunny.
Have sensibilities and tastes changed over the past two decades?
I think so. I think a lot has changed. People in Europe said they thought the reason it went so well now is that the pace of the film is perfectly comfortable instead of looking dated like so many (older) films. They look so dated because they move so slowly.
I think ethnicity has become a lot more comfortable, you know. I think that was a major factor for people. They didn't know whether it was funny or not. And now people don't have any question about it.
What I was doing doesn't seem that out-of-the-ordinary at all. It seems quite mainstream now.
- Were there many independent filmmakers in the 1960s?
No. I think there was a much smaller handful of people doing that. There weren't really any film schools. There wasn't this enormous number of young people pushing up from below and behind, trying to do things that the industry wasn't doing. There's been tremendous change there.
- Did you ever think of going mainstream?
No. We (Roemer and his co-producer and cinematographer Robert Young) weren't so hot. People liked our work and our first film was successful. But people weren't saying, "Oh, you must work for us." It wasn't like that, so it wasn't like we were getting offers from Hollywood.
- But isn't it true you were asked to direct "Goodbye, Columbus"?
Yeah, that's right. (Paramount Pictures President) Stanley Jaffe is a friend of mind and that was his first film. He had liked "Nothing But a Man," but it was just as we were geting ready to do this Jewish film ("Harry"), so I couldn't do it.
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