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=== Development === |
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''Falling Down'' was being shot on locations in [[Lynwood, California]], when the [[1992 Los Angeles riots]] began. By April 30, the riots were sufficiently disruptive to force filming to stop early that day.<ref name="southern">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/82242600|title=3 May 1992|page= 11 |work= Southern Illinoisan |access-date=October 11, 2016}}</ref> Film crews produced more footage inside of Warner Bros. Studio, in [[Burbank, California|Burbank]], as the riots continued. By May 4, when the crew intended to resume in [[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]], initial requests to do so were denied, causing delays.<ref name="LAT">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/177286935|title=Hollywood Film Crews Encounter Riot Delays|date=May 5, 1992|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|access-date=October 11, 2016}}</ref> Filming wrapped in late June 1992.<ref name="Detroit">{{Cite news|title=Surprise|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/99879835|date=June 23, 1992|page= 25 |work= Detroit Free Press |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref> Production designer Barbara Ling said: "We mapped this so that you really were going across [Los Angeles] from Silver Lake down to mid-city to Koreatown."<ref name="lataco">{{Cite news|url=https://www.lataco.com/setting-path-across-l-unhinged-antihero-falling/|title=Setting a Path Across L.A. With the Unhinged Antihero of 'Falling Down' |date=February 25, 2018|work=L.A. TACO|access-date=March 5, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> |
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In an interview less than a week before ''Falling Down''{{'}}s release, screenwriter Ebbe Roe Smith gave his interpretation of what the movie was about. "To me, even though the movie deals with complicated urban issues, it really is just about one basic thing: The main character represents the old power structure of the U.S. that has now become archaic, and hopelessly lost. For both of them, it's adjust-or-die time{{nbsp}}..."<ref name="LAT2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-21-ca-942-story.html|title=MOVIES : 'Falling Down' Writer Has Seen the Future: It's L.A. |last=Murphy|first=Ryan|date=February 21, 1993|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|access-date=June 10, 2016}}</ref> |
In an interview less than a week before ''Falling Down''{{'}}s release, screenwriter Ebbe Roe Smith gave his interpretation of what the movie was about. "To me, even though the movie deals with complicated urban issues, it really is just about one basic thing: The main character represents the old power structure of the U.S. that has now become archaic, and hopelessly lost. For both of them, it's adjust-or-die time{{nbsp}}..."<ref name="LAT2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-21-ca-942-story.html|title=MOVIES : 'Falling Down' Writer Has Seen the Future: It's L.A. |last=Murphy|first=Ryan|date=February 21, 1993|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|access-date=June 10, 2016}}</ref> |