Cry of Alarm: An Interview with Screenwriter Michael Schiffer (2015)
*** 1/2 (out of 4)
Highly entertaining featurette with screenwriter Michael Schiffer who discusses his work on the film COLORS. He starts off talking about how he got the job and then he goes into details about his original meetings with various gangs. He admits he knew nothing about them so he tells some very good stories about their meetings. From here he talks about the original draft of the screenplay, Sean Penn's reaction to it and what it was like working with Dennis Hopper. If you're a fan of COLORS then you'll really enjoy this conversation with Schiffer as he tells several great stories and we get all sorts of good behind-the-scenes stories. Some of the best stuff comes when the screenwriter discusses the controversy that the film had when many felt it was exploiting a real-life bad situation.