American Cinematographer - February 2004 - 87

Southern

Siblings and a Chinese Irishman
Left: The short
film Two

Soldiers,
directed

by

Aaron

Schneider, ASC,
chronicles the
close

relationship
by the

shared

Grier brothers,
Pete (Ben

Allison, left) and
Willie (Jonathan
Furr). Below:
Pete overhears
news

that the

Japanese have
bombed Pearl
Harbor.

Brothers in Arms

which

by Bob Fisher

Palm

won the Jury Prize at the 2003
Springs International Festival of

Short, writer/director Aaron Schneider,
Based

short story

by William
Faulkner, Two Soldiers details a boy's
unwavering devotion to his older brother
and the way that bond is subtly but
permanently transformed by the advent
of World War II. Set in rural Mississippi,
the film opens with brothers Pete and
Willie Grier (Ben Allison and Jonathan
Furr) huddled below a neighbor's porch
window, eavesdropping on their radio.
Suddenly they hear the news that the
Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor.
on a

ASC had to tap some unwavering devo¬
tion of his own. A two-time ASC Award¬

directed

a

film. But when he read Two

Soldiers, he says, "I fell in love with
Faulkner's story of devotion and duty to
both family and country." Schneider
subsequently spent five years bringing

winning cinematographer (for the series

Two Soldiers into

Murder One,

learned," he recalls wryly, "was how

Schneider

had

in

1996 and
never

written

1997),
and

much

more

being. "The first thing I

there is to

building

a

film

Pete decides to enlist, and Willie

PCSrodhlouecotirfkns.

courtesy

Phot s

declares that he will, too: "You'll whup
the big 'uns, and I'll whup the little 'uns."
Pete tells Willie he is too young to enlist,
but Willie's

own sense

of

duty compels

him to follow Pete all the way to

Memphis, Tennessee, where he makes
quite an impression on the staff at the
recruiting center when he tries to enlist.
In order to make Two Soldiers,
American

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