Extreme Close-Up

Extreme Close-Up (1973)

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While doing a story on the intrusion of surreptitious surveillance in peoples' private lives, a television reporter rents some surveillance equipment to get a feel for what it's like to spy.

Date of release
1973-05-16
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Drama
Director
Jeannot Szwarc

Casting

Interesting facts

Extreme Close-Up is a 1973 film directed by Jeannot Szwarc and written by Michael Crichton. It deals with privacy in an ever growing technological age.

Production

Producer Paul Lazarus III says Extreme Close-Up was inspired in part by the success of I Am Curious (Yellow). He approached Michael Crichton with whom he made Westworld (1973) and suggested they make a film which got some nudity on screen "without creating some kind of uproar that ruins people." They came up with the story and Crichton wrote the script.

Crichton said "I intended it to be an X-rated film, a voyeuristic movie that was meant to make viewers uncomfortable."

Lazarus sold the film to a financier, Ted Mann, on the basis of Crichton's reputation. He offered to make the whole movie for $209,000.

Crichton said "I thought I'd written a very good screenplay but the people I'd written it for didn't trust me to direct it. I was directing a TV movie at the time it was shot so I couldn't have directed it anyway."

The movie was directed by Jeannot Szwarc was hired in part because he was French "and we thought he'd known how to do this," according to Lazarus III.

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