Production Raising Arizona

1 production

1.1 conception
1.2 casting
1.3 filming

production
conception

the coen brothers started working on raising arizona idea make different possible previous film, blood simple, having far more optimistic , upbeat. starting point of scriptwriting came idea of character of hi, has desire live regular life within boundaries of law. create characters dialect, joel , ethan created hybrid of local dialect , assumed reading material of characters, namely, magazines , bible. script took 3 , half months write.

the film influenced works of director preston sturges , writers such william faulkner , flannery o connor, known southern literature. joel , ethan showed completed script circle films, american distributor blood simple. circle films agreed finance movie. coens came set complete script , storyboard. budget of on 5 million dollars, joel coen noted obtain maximum money, movie has meticulously prepared.

casting

in contrast blood simple, characters in raising arizona written sympathetic. coens wrote character ed holly hunter.

several babies had fired on-set due them taking first steps rather crawling. 1 mother put baby s shoes on backwards keep baby walking. character of leonard smalls created when coen brothers tried envision evil character not imagination, 1 character have thought up. randall tex cobb gave coens difficulty on set, joel noting s less actor force of nature ... don t know if d rush headlong employing him future film.

filming

raising arizona shot in ten weeks. relationship between actor nicolas cage , coens respectful, turbulent. when arrived on-set, , @ various other points during production, cage offered suggestions coen brothers, ignored. cage said joel , ethan have strong vision , ve learned how difficult accept artist s vision. have autocratic nature.

many crew members had worked joel , ethan on blood simple returned raising arizona, including cinematographer barry sonnenfeld, co-producer mark silverman, production designer jane musky, associate producer , assistant director deborah reinisch, , film composer carter burwell.