Word: tenementation
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...achieve in his films a characteristic sense of the toughness and bitterness of Britain's working class, he prefers to shoot in a street or a tenement rather than a studio. He understands actors and how to use them. "Actors are the most civilized, sweet, and well-behaved race of people in the world," he says. "They have an extraordinary emotional ruthlessness too. It's terribly difficult to know where the center of an actor is. They don't quite know who they are. They want to be villain, hero, king and slob all at the same...
...obviously learned to be tough early. His father, the fourth son of a Japanese farmer, came to Seattle in 1908 after the farm was inherited by an older brother, in accordance with traditional Japanese primogeniture. Yamasaki spent the first years of his life in a shabby wooden tenement whose foundation was so eroded that the house had a tilt. The Japanese-American community stayed within itself in those days, and young Yamasaki got only occasional hints of the degree of discrimination that lay beyond. Once, he remembers, his mother came home in tears after a cruel experience...
Every Christmas, year after year, a glossy calendar would arrive from the life insurance company, and every year it would be almost the only spot of color in the tiny Brooklyn tenement apartment. To six of the seven kids of the immigrant Hirshhorn family living in the apartment at the time, it was just something that told the date; but to the second youngest child, it was a good deal more. When the calendar had served its purpose, he would cut out reproductions of sugary landscapes and tearful Landseer dogs and pin them on the wall beside...
...business. It is written in Hollywood, and scripts are flown to New York, sometimes a page or two at a time-while the production crew waits to find out what happens next. One man spends most of his time looking for locations that fit the scenes, such as a tenement having an open stairwell with wood banisters (for a breakaway fight scene). Another fulltime employee works overtime getting permits from city agencies, businesses and individuals. Exposed film is flown back to Hollywood for developing and editing...
Strangers in the City is a brilliantly abrasive film that takes moviegoers where many Manhattanites themselves fear to go, into the rat-infested tenement hovels of the bruisingly poor, the lower depths of the richest city on earth. The film piles melodrama too heavily on its plot, but the harsh-grained honesty of its photography and the improvisational candor of its script make every tabloid cliche about the soulless city bristle with fresh life...