Public Enemy Directors Notes

Everybody was talking about how great the new MINI DV cameras were, so I was convinced to shoot a movie with one. I was not overly impressed.

In this movie. the hero cop literally becomes a homeless bum and has to figure out how to fight his way back inside. I treated the piece mostly as a film noir/ action comedy. My job was to keep it moving and I think the final shoot out scene is pretty good for a truly no budget film.

I did meet new actors who I liked and who would appear for me again very soon thereafter. As the cop’s wife, Karen Mayo Chandler, was at the time famous/infamous for her real life role as Jack Nicholson’s girlfriend and for a Playboy Magazine layout she. Despite her reasons for being known, she had much experience as an actress and was great to work with. She hated guns and her screams during the film’s final shoot out are real. She was pregnant by the time I did my next film or I would have loved to have her be the female lead in IRON THUNDER.

One of the supporting gangster characters was named Elvis because his mother loved the King. How can you not make a film with a character named Elvis in it?