![]() ![]() From the very beginning I have done both. Fun is not for me determined by whether it is an independent film or Hollywood. I do not know if you can shoot it faster. Is that as quick as you had shot a film before this? She’s Gotta Have It was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks. We shot it in eighteen days, three six-day weeks. The film was shot within a ten-block radius. I talked about Red Hook, he grew up in Red Hook, his father and mother were preachers, you have the Carmelo thing, and that is how it all came together.īesides writing and directing, I am producing this thing, too, so I know that time is money. We both have kids, and we were talking about what kind of film our kids would see. One Saturday morning, James McBride and I were eating breakfast there. So I said, “Let’s go to Red Hook.” Then, one Saturday morning, James McBride and I were eating breakfast at Viand. We claimed Michael Jordan-he was born in this neighborhood, Fort Greene.īut here is the genesis to the whole thing: When the Knicks traded for Carmelo, he got a deal with Boost Mobile, and they came to me to do a digital piece on Carmelo. They claimed him when he was at Syracuse. But the people of Red Hook don’t feel that way. There’s a perception that Carmelo isn’t really from New York, that he’s really from Baltimore. We actually painted the shrine to him on the courts for the movie. ![]() She’s Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing, He Got Game, Clockers, Crooklyn, and Red Hook Summer. I am a professor at NYU-I’ve been one the last fifteen years-and one of the courses they are teaching in cinema studies this summer is “Scorsese’s New York.” The postcard has a map of Manhattan and a dot where each Scorsese film took place. Red Hook Summer is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn. This is not Spike going back to his roots. I am glad you asked that, because I am going to try to shake the narrative as much as I can. People keep talking about Red Hook Summer as a return to your roots. ![]()
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