mondo cinema and beyond 1960s — 1980s


neither/nor


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Are there any particular incidents that come to mind?


SR: Te scariest actually didn’t make it to the screen. I spent a lot of time researching with the lapd in Watts, doing all-night ride-alongs, and if you want to know what’s scary, it’s responding, with a sergeant, to a call about a man with a gun at a motel. And you go into a courtyard with forty doors facing it; he could be behind any of them. At three in the morning, just you and the


sergeant. Te first night I got in the car with the sergeant, he turned to me and he said, “I don’t mind if you carry.” [laughs] He said, “It’s okay with me if you carry, as long as you know how to use it, and as long as if I get hit you get on the radio and call it in, and get help.” So.


What I saw was is that everything that people said about police tended to be true, and that everything that police said about people tended to be true. Tere were


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