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Assembly Line | Robbery
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Best Film | 1978 | Paul
Budget 1,700,000 USD
Box Office Collection 6,521,083 USD
It was a very tense shoot, because Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto, and Harvey Keitel argued constantly. There were fights, verbal abuse, walk-offs, and Mexican stand-offs. According to Paul Schrader, Pryor punched Keitel and hit Kotto with a chair during filming.
According to "The Back Row, Robin's Underrated Gems: Blue Collar", the film "had one of the more tumultuous shoots that a director could experience, which nearly gave writer and director Paul Schrader a nervous breakdown and caused him to quit the film business (for a while). The incident that nearly caused Schrader to have a mental breakdown was when Richard Pryor(allegedly in a drug-fueled rage) pulled a gun on him and told him there was no way he was ever going to do more than three takes for a scene.
When the screenplay was being written, Paul Schrader went to Detroit and interviewed real-life auto workers to get more details. One of the workers told Schrader "We hate management, but you know who we hate more than management? Our own union. It fucks us." Schrader recounted later he'd never seen anything like that in a movie before, and it formed the basis of the entire script for his project.
According to Yaphet Kotto, the only problem he had with Richard Pryor was that Pryor would improvise frequently, causing Kotto to lose his place.
According to Yaphet Kotto, he played his character as "an Italian in black skin". Kotto figured that Richard Pryor represented the "black" character, so Kotto based his performance on an Italian-American childhood friend.
"[last lines] Smokey James: [voiceover echoing earlier line] They pit the lifers against the new boy and the young against the old. The black against the white. Everything they do is to keep us in our place."
"Clarence Hill, Union Steward: Y'know I can't go to the Green Room with every little thing. I gotta wait for somethin' big, or a buncha little things. Now we can't let our power be dissipated by the, by the plant. . . Zeke Brown: Plant my ass, man! That's all you talk about, "the plant"! Everybody know what "the plant" is. "The plant" just short for plantation!"
