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Swingers and The War at Home

Both Swingers and The War at Home are films made with relatively low budgets that used their lack of funding in positive ways. Sometimes the low budget look turns up on the screen but in those cases the filmmakers turn this into a virtue. In other respects the lack of money is not obvious but it has positive effects that the audience cannot see but, without knowing it, come to appreciate. Both films are enjoyable because they are well written and well acted and because the directors minimized their lack of other resources quite effectively.

Both films, for example, are successful because of the level of the acting and the producers of Swingers and Emilio Estevez stressed the effect that rehearsal had on the quality of the performances. Estevez remarked that one of the principal things he, as an actor, disliked in making most films was the lack of rehearsal. Even though such time is often promised, the cast usually gets two days instead of two weeks in which to rehearse. He was determined not to do this on his film and the results show. He reported that they spent two weeks in rehearsal -- one of them in the actual location where the movie was shot. This enabled the cast to get the feel of the script and then to play it out in their actual surroundings so that when it came time to shoot the film they were completely prepared. The preparation shows in the naturalistic way the conversations take place and the actors move through the set.

But the rehearsal in the actual location was also important because Estevez wanted to shoot as much of the film in sequence as he possibly could. This created difficulties for the cinematographer and the crew but it continued the support for the cast and its integrated approach to the story. By being completely used to the house in which they shot, the cast and crew knew the location and this saved precious time on the very tight shooting schedule.

Estevez felt that location shootin...

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