Photo: "Love Jones," movie
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After attending college, Witcher started working at NBC tower, at Chicago TV station WMAQ. He later joined the staff of “The Jerry Springer Show.”
“So I was working in television while trying to figure out how I was going to crack getting into the movie business. And simultaneously, since I wasn’t really writing anything, the only sort of avenue of creative expression I had at the time was I fell into this world of underground poetry in Chicago. That world was very inspirational to me,” he recalled to RogerEbert.com.
Witcher told RogerEbert.com that he hadn’t initially thought of the role Chicago played in the film.
“I hadn’t even considered any of that, other than I wanted to excavate as many cultural details of Black Chicago as I could to bring the film to life. It had a vivid three-dimensionality to it. I would’ve done that no matter where the movie was set. But I wanted to set it in Chicago only because I knew it, and I wanted to return to make good. But even when we were budgeting the movie, there were other conversations that were being had at the studio about it maybe being cheaper in New York or San Francisco,” he explained.
He added, “I sorta restricted it to a city where there was some kind of Black Bohemia or Black artistic scene that would make sense for the story. Right. So I guess you could do a version of this movie in San Francisco or in New York in Brooklyn. I think Atlanta came up as an option as well. But I held to my guns, even though it was a little bit more expensive than what they wanted. I just felt like Chicago was the right place for it.”
“There’s a humanity that’s been missing from a lot of these black films, despite their realness,” Witcher, told the Los Angeles Times in 1997. “I’ve seen a lot of types and a lot of caricatures, but none of the people I’ve ever known hung out or partied with. Nothing that has reflected my experiences as a young, black man in America.”
Witcher stressed the “Love Jones” reflected his life experience.
“This film is my reality. I don’t live in a castle on top of a hill, so if it’s realistic to me, it has to seem realistic to some other people out there,” he said.
Photo: “Love Jones,” movie
