Making It

The reading of the recent book, Making It: The Business of Film and Television Production in Canada, produced a vivid recollection of Francois Truffaut's statement about the cinema in La Nuit Americaine. Truffaut, himself, played the filmmaker who was in the process of shooting a movie. During his spare moments, he would read books about Renoir, Hitchcock and Hawks. His nights were filled with a recurring dream of a young boy in Chaplinesque garb stealing stills of the movie, Citizen Kane, from a theatre. The intellectual and subconscious goals were, however, subverted by the exigencies of the film he was shooting. Problems with actors, producers, and investors resulted in constant alteration in the execution of the script. When the leading actor died suddenly, the insurers demanded that the film be completed as expediently as possible.

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