High Noon on the Waterfront (2022)
Edward Norton: Carl Foreman
Quotes
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Carl Foreman : I started to do "High Noon" back in 1949 when the Un-American Activities Committee was just going into high gear in Hollywood. You could almost smell the fear that rose. It was like the smog we have now. People were falling by the wayside, one way or another... They were either capitulating to these political gangsters from out-of-town or they were being executed... I could see that my time was coming, sooner or later... It was these events that made me think of a story about Hollywood under the political gun, as it were, and its reaction to the situation. The story of an individual at odds with the community.
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Carl Foreman : It was such a cowardly thing to do: naming somebody. The idea of being a stool pigeon - the idea of being an informer - well, that, to me, was truly un-American.
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Carl Foreman : Writing the screenplay became - insane. Because, life was mirroring art and art was mirroring life. There was no difference. It was all happening at the same time.
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Carl Foreman : The blacklist period was like a continuous earthquake, in the sense that almost everybody lost their footing in it, someway or the other.
