Samuel had a few songs written into the script and would often play music on set. Finding the rhythm within a scene was a huge part of the film. Both Mihai and Samuel took visual ideas for The Harder They Fall from The Wild Bunch and several Sergio Leone movies. They headed out to New Mexico and shot the film while under strict COVID protocols.
Finally, in July of 2020 Jeymes called up Mihai to see if he could be ready to shoot within a few weeks. They were prepping to shoot in March of 2020 in New Mexico, then everything was halted due to the pandemic. Samuel had previously made a shorter Western called They Die By Dawn, but Mihai had never shot a Western before.
The Harder They Fall is a mashup of blaxploitation, spaghetti Western and musical in one sprawling and stylish package. For The Harder They Fall, Mihai discovered that as both a director and a singer-songwriter, Jeymes Samuel communicates through music, and the two enjoyed working together to find the visual language of the film. understands the power of images to communicate a feeling right away, and in a more straightforward way than with spoken language.
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