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Car Wash (1976) – Ultimate Production Tutorials
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Car Wash (1976)

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Michael Schultz

Fresh off of the success of Cooley High, Michael Schultz was tentative about signing on to a project with a first time producer 1st time producers. But when he learned that Norman Whitfield had already been signed on Schultz no longer hesitated.

He first tackled the script, significantly rewriting it. Of utmost importance was amping up the interaction between the young, militant car wash employee Duane/Abdullah, Bill Duke’s debut film role, and Lonnie, the older, ex-con employee, whom the late Ivan Dixon—known for the provocative film Nothing but a Man—came out of retirement to play.

Schultz was so committed to the storyline, he fervently fought Universal brass to keep it. Duke’s commentary on what that storyline meant to him and the King-less/Malcolm X-less society at the time underscores Schultz’s decision.

Schultz was able to stitch everything together in was very coherent and enjoyable way.  He innovated a playing the music at full volume while on set so that the actors and extras all moved to the same beat.  I some shots, you can notice that some of the people that were not extras in the background were also walking to the rhythm. 

Bio

Michael Schultz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of an African-American mother Katherine Frances Leslie (1917–1995), and Leo Albert Schultz (1913–2001), an insurance salesman of German descent.
Shortly before his birth his parents married in Iowa, where both were listed as black on their marriage license. Mr. Schultz’s occupation was listed as “Musician” at the time of his marriage.

After his undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Marquette University, he attended Princeton University, where in 1966 he directed his first play, a production of Waiting for Godot. He joined the Negro Ensemble Company in 1968, which brought him to Broadway in 1969. His breakthrough was directing Lorraine Hansberry’s To Be Young, Gifted and Black, which he restaged for television in 1972.

Schultz’ earlier film projects combined low comedy with profound social comment (Honeybaby and Cooley High), reaching a peak with the ensemble comedy Car Wash (1976) and Which Way Is Up? (1977), starring Richard Pryor.

Schultz married Gloria Jones in Brooklyn, New York in 1965.[8] As an actress his wife is known professionally as Lauren Jones. In non-acting capacities, she is known as Gloria Schultz. The couple have two children.

Notable Michael Schultz films: 

Cooley High
The Last Dragon

 

Car Wash
Krush Groove

 

Reception

Selected to be the official US entry in the Cannes film festival won for music and technical excellence. there would be another until Spike Lee’s 1989 film do the right thing.


The judges there liked it because they thought that the film was a political film.  with the post war communist sentiment rejecting a lot of the top down oligarchical themes from previous decades.  They sympathized with the working class rising story line and not what it was supposed to be, a music driven comedy. this might also be because  a lot of the films coming out of Europe at the time explored those exact themes.

It could have one an official Palme d’Or but  2 American judges didn’t want the award this film.  To the misfortune of this writer I was not able to find out what the reason was.  The board of judges was so disappointed by the 2 American judges that the created a new award called the Vulcan Award in Technical Excellence to ensure that Car Wash would go back home with something. 

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