After getting an engineering degree from Stanford University, Roger got a job of sending messages by bike. At that time, the film studio filmed six days a week, while the office staff worked five days a week. Roger applied to 20th Century Fox Company to observe and study at the shooting site every Saturday and work for them for free, and they agreed. Later, they realized that Roger was a studious young man, so he became a reader of the story department. They called Roger a story analyst, so Roger felt as if he had entered the film industry. Once, 20th Century Fox Company searched for an unconventional western film for George Safford Parker. Roger remembers reading a play called wyndell dichinson Black Boy. He thought it was quite good, so he wrote a revised version for them on this basis. Later, the film was made according to Roger's modified version. 1954 Coleman wrote his first screenplay, The House and the Sea, which was later changed to the Highway French Open. He sold the script to America, where he received valuable producer training. The Road Law Open was Roger's turning point. After the script was sold, Roger asked to be an assistant producer for free. He wants to learn something, and at the same time he can win the honor of assistant producer. After the film was finished, Roger became a screenwriter and producer.
As an independent filmmaker, Coleman's first film was Devil at Sea. He made this low-budget film with the money borrowed from his friends and the sales of Highway Law Openness. Roger has a small office, which is actually the agent's reception room, where he works. He put the money from selling the script "House and the Sea" together with the money borrowed from friends. The money from the expansion of the laboratory was $65,438+08,000. He spent six days filming the film on the coast of Malibu.
The cooperation with American distribution companies was the breakthrough of Coleman's early career, and later their company was renamed American International Film Company. They made one successful movie after another together, and sometimes they can finish a movie in one day. The original name of the movie Devil from Underwater was Dive into Underwater World, but the publisher thought the name was too artistic, so they renamed it Devil from Underwater. In any case, this film began Coleman's career as a producer.
Coleman's early films and many of today's films are called development films, and he thinks there is nothing wrong with this name. In fact, when Steven Allan Spielberg filmed Jaws, Vincent Comby wrote in The New York Times: Jaws is a big budget movie in roger corman. Later, some major film companies began to shoot developmental films that Coleman had been shooting. The first film directed by roger corman was "Five Tigers Urging the West" released on 1955, starring John Lund, Mike Connors and dorothy malone. Shot for 9 days at the farm in san fernando Canyon. Coleman was very, very nervous. As a producer, he has always been confident, but once he changed from producer to director, he was very, very insecure. All he can do is shoot in the morning, stare at the script in the afternoon, study the script and consider how to proceed.
In 1950s, low-budget movies were usually completed within 65,438+00 days, that is, two working days. Coleman usually finishes a movie at this speed, sometimes even shorter. He made the film "The Horror Store" in "Blood Barrels for Five Days" and "Two Days and One Night".
One of Coleman's favorite movies is The Intruder, which was shot at 1960. This is a serious film, reflecting the racial equality in the southern campus, starring Bill Schattner, a young actor from new york. The film won a series of film festival awards and received rave reviews. Critics say that this feature film is the glory of the entire American film industry, but it is the first film that Coleman made to lose money.
Coleman has made all kinds of movies. Sometimes he has ideas, sometimes he has intuition. Perhaps something in his heart made him interested in fantasy films, science fiction films, and especially horror films. He always has many theories, right or wrong. He thinks that Poe's films are psychological horror stories and show unconsciousness, so they should be filmed in an artificial environment. According to his theory, the film was shot in the studio.