T H E H A R D E R T H E Y F A L L | P E R S P E C T I V E 8 1
In early , while in Georgia finishing a film, I
got a call from my agent, Pete Franciosa, asking
me if I'd be interested in reading a Western that
etix was putting together. I was very intrigued
as I had always hoped to get an opportunity to
design a Western. He sent me the script and what I
read was a stone cold, straight up, classic Western.
All African American. I was told the director,
Jeymes amuel, had made a short film that
inspired this, and he was a musician out of London.
This project was adding up to be something special
fast. While reading the script, it became apparent
Jeymes was planning on taking a dierent tact to
the genre. Not just that it was an African American
Western story, but the timing, the description
of the scenes, and the music was very telling. In
the script, the exact songs were called out at very
specific times. There was a mood and beat to this
thing already. It was apparent that there was
someone behind what I was reading who had a
A. TRUDY'S SALOON.
ILLUSTRATION BY JAMIE
RAMA.
