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Heartbreak
Ridge
footage was
during actual
combat
shot
Marine
maneuvers
which represent
brief war on
the
Grenada.
Photos
Heartbreak
Ridge,
an
Exercise in Realism
Produced and directed by Clint Eastwood
Jack Green, director of photography
by David Jon Wiener
"I have certain little quirks I like
when I'm shooting," Clint Eastwood says. "I like to 'hinge out' of
a
shot, rather than just have people
exit frame. I like to pan with them
for a little bit, 1 don't like them to
walk out of the frame and leave
dead holes.
"Some people don't like
that because it's safer to cut from
somebody walking
of the
frame to somebody going in; but if
you 'hinge out' and 'hinge in' it
can give a different
feeling."
In this
break
28
Ridge,
American
as
out
Heart¬
in all his movies.
war
Cinematographer
story,
by Marcia Reed
Eastwood
the
would fill many directors with
fear.
"Clint almost always
talks about pace," says Jack N.
feeling of
being in the middle of the action.
"So sometimes I purposely place
actors on the wrong sides," he
says, "in order to get that feeling.
A lot of times I'll hear people say,
'Oh, my, you're crossing over the
Green, the director of photog¬
raphy. "Not just the pace of the
scenes but during production. It's
line
very
wants
here, that
person
the other side.' I say,
give
me
all that book
is
now on
'Well, don't
on
direction
because I've never read one. I like
it that way and it feels good.' "
Eastwood's Under-Bud¬
get-Ahead-Of-Schedule reputation
is the result of solid and reliable
working methods, techniques that
January 1987
move
important to him to always
forward, which is why he
doesn't like to
in rehearsal."
spend
a
lot of time
Jack N. Green has been
Clint Eastwood movies,
going all the way back to Eastwood's first outing as a director on
Play Misty For Me (Green was
on
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