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==Production==
 
===Background and writing===
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Truffaut first read [[David Goodis]]'s novel in the mid-1950s while shooting ''Les Mistons'' when his wife Madeleine Morgenstern read it and recommended it to him.<ref>Wakeman, John. World Film Directors, Volume 2. The H. W. Wilson Company. 1987. pp. 1125.</ref> He immediately loved the book's dialogue and poetic tone and showed it to producer [[Pierre Braunberger]], who bought the rights.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=119}} Truffaut later met Goodis in New York City, where the novelist gave Truffaut a vintage viewfinder from his brief experience as a 2nd Unit Director on a U.S. film.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=123}}
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Truffaut said he made the film in reaction to the success of ''The 400 Blows'', which he considered to be very French. He wanted to show his influence from American films.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=119}} He later told a reporter that he wanted to shock the audience that had loved ''The 400 Blows'' by making a film that would "please the real film nuts and them alone."{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=134}} He previously had several ideas for films about children, but was afraid of repeating himself in his second film. He told a reporter, "I refused to be a prisoner of my own first success. I discarded temptation to renew that success by choosing a "great subject". I turned my back on what everyone waited for and I took ''my pleasure'' as my only rule of conduct."{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=134}}
 
Truffaut began writing the script with [[Marcel Moussy]], who had co-written ''The 400 Blows''. Moussey said that he didn't understand the book and attempted to establish clear social roots for the characters. Truffaut disagreed, wanting to keep the film loose and abstract; Moussey left after a few weeks and Truffaut wrote the script himself.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=124}} One problem Truffaut had was that he considered the Goodis novel to be too chaste and he decided to make the characters less heroic.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=122}} The book's main character Charlie is also much stronger in the book and Truffaut called it a [[Sterling Hayden]] type. Truffaut decided to go the opposite direction and make the protagonist weaker and the female characters strong. Truffaut was also influenced by French writer [[Jacques Audiberti]] while writing the film, such as in his treatment of the character Plyne.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=132}} Truffaut also used some scenes from other Goodis novels, such as the early scene where Chico bumps into a lamp post and has a conversation with a stranger.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=127}}
 
===Casting===
Truffaut had wanted to work with [[Charles Aznavour]] since seeing him act in [[Georges Franju]]'s ''[[Head Against the Wall]]'' and wrote the role with Aznavour in mind.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=131}} Child actor Richard Kanayan had appeared in ''The 400 Blows'' and was always making the crew laugh, so Truffaut cast him as Charlie's youngest brother. [[Nicole Berger]] was an old friend of Truffaut's and also Pierre Braunberger's stepdaughter. [[Michèle Mercier]] was a dancer who had appeared in a few films before this role. [[Albert Remy]] had appeared in ''The 400 Blows'' and Truffaut wanted to show the actor's comedic side after his performance in the previous film. Truffaut also cast actor and novelist [[Daniel Boulanger]] and theatrical actor Claude Mansard as the two gangsters in the film.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=125}} Serge Davri was a music hall performer who had for years recited poems while breaking dishes over his head. Truffaut considered him crazy, but funny, and cast him as Plyne. Truffaut rounded out the cast with Catherine Lutz in the role of Mammy. Lutz had never acted before and worked at a local movie theater.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=127}}
 
Truffaut first noticed [[Marie Dubois]] when he came across her headshot during pre-production and attempted to set up several meetings with the actress, but Dubois never showed up. Truffaut finally saw Dubois perform on a TV show and immediately wanted to cast her shortly before filming began. Dubois's real name was "Claudine Huzé" and Truffaut changed it to Marie Dubois because she reminded him of the titular character of his friend Jacques Audiberti's novel ''Marie Dubois''. Audiberti later approved of the actress's new stage name.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=125}} Truffaut later told a reporter that Dubois was "neither a 'dame' nor a 'sex kitten'; she is neither 'lively' nor 'saucey'. But she's a perfectly worthy young girl with whom it's conceivable you could fall in love and be loved in return."{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=130}}
 
===Filming===
Filming took place from 30 November 1959 until 22 January 1960 with some re-shoots for two weeks in March. Locations included a cafe called ''A la Bonne Franquette'' on the rue Mussard in Levallois, [[Le Sappey-en-Chartreuse]], around [[Grenoble]] and throughout Paris.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=33}} The film' budget was 890,062.95 francs.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=126}} Whereas ''The 400 Blows'' had been a tense shoot for Truffaut, his second film was a happy experience for the cast and crew after Truffaut's first success.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=127}} Truffaut had wanted to make it as a big budget studio film, but was unable to get sufficient funds and the film was made on the streets instead.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=142}} Truffaut filled the film with homages to such American B movie directors as [[Nicholas Ray]] and [[Sam Fuller]].{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=129}} During the shooting Truffaut realized that he didn't like gangsters and tried to make their character more and more comical.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=125}} Pierre Braunberger initially didn't like [[Boby Lapointe]]'s songs and said that he couldn't understand what Lapointe was saying. This inspired Truffaut to add subtitle with a [[bouncing ball (music)|bouncing ball]].{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=122}}
 
===Filming style===
The film's script changed constantly during shooting. Truffaut said that "In ''Shoot the Piano Player'' I wanted to break with the linear narrative and make a film where all the scenes would please me. I shot without any criteria."<ref>Wakeman. pp. 1125.</ref>
 
Truffaut's stylized and self-reflexive melodrama employs the hallmarks of [[French New Wave]] cinema: extended [[voice-over]]s, out-of-sequence shots, and sudden [[jump cuts]]. The film's cinematography by [[Raoul Coutard]] was often grainy and kinetic, reflecting the emotional state of the characters, such as the scene in which Charlie hesitates before ringing a doorbell.{{sfn|Insdorf|1995|pp=24}}
 
Among the film references in ''Shoot the Piano Player'' are nods to Hollywood [[B movies]] from the 1940s, the techniques of using an iris from silent films, Charlie being named after [[Charlie Chaplin]] and having three brothers (including one named Chico) as a reference to the [[Marx Brothers]],{{sfn|Insdorf|1995|pp=26}} and the film's structure and flashbacks being similar to the structure of ''[[Citizen Kane]]''.{{sfn|Insdorf|1995|pp=33-34}} Truffaut later stated that "In spite of the burlesque idea to certain scenes, it's never a parody (because I detest parody, except when it begins to rival the beauty of what it is parodying). For me its something very precise that I would call a ''respectful pastiche'' of the Hollywood B films from which I learned so much."{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=5}} This was also Truffaut's first film to include a murder, which would become a plot point in many of his films and was influenced by Truffaut's admiration of [[Alfred Hitchcock]].{{sfn|Insdorf|1995|pp=44}}
 
Truffaut stated that the theme of the film is "love and the relations between men and women"{{sfn|Insdorf|1995|pp=107}}{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=129}} and later claimed that "the idea behind ''Le Pianiste'' was to make a film without a subject, to express all I wanted to say about glory, success, downfall, failure, women and love by means of a detective story. It's a grab bag."{{sfn|Insdorf|1995|pp=27}} Like ''The 400 Blows'' and ''[[Jules and Jim]]'', ''Shoot the Piano Player'' was shot in [[Cinemascope]], which Truffaut described as being like an aquarium which allows the actors to move around the frame more naturally.{{sfn|Brunette|1993|pp=120}}
 
== Autour du film ==