Collateral

Collateral

This a poster of the Hollywood movie collateral

starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx

This movie is about a cab driver (Jamie Foxx) who finds himself hostage from a contract killer (Tom Cruise) as he uses the cab driver to be his designated drive to drive him around L.A. from hit to hit.

Film was released in 2004

Director: Michael Mann

Writer: Stuart Beattie

Stars: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith.

This movie was the first major Hollywood feature film to have been filmed using digital filming equipment which was and still is a huge step for Hollywood and the film industry in general there are many benefits from this leap from film to digital, its lightweight, easier to edit, more space and time to film, and cheaper than film.

This extract is a scene from Collateral where a coyote is running across the road in front of their taxi, and there are a series of cuts of this coyote running, the reason this coyote was filmed because the camera crew had digital cameras and were using them for a hollywood film for the first time and they are very easy to use they filmed the coyote because why not.

The fever club scene was the only scene in the film to still be shot with classic celluloid camera, i cant see the difference in the quality but the advantages of the digital out weigh the advantages of celluloid.

The film was co-produced by DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures. Collateral sat on DreamWorks development for three years. the project didn't take off until actor Russell Crowe became interested in playing Vincent. Then Mann went to Tom cruise for the role as vincent and Adam Sandler for the Cabbie but the Cabbie was Jamie Foxx in the end.

This is an interview with Tom Cruise talking about his character "Vincent" and Jamie Foxx's character "Max", he also talks about Michael Mann and that his films emerse you and give you the feeling of being in his world. He talks about how Jamie Foxx gives a realism feel to the character of Max and that he is a great actor and also how vincent is the opposite, tramatised and indifferent.