Solist notes on featuret

The original Idea of the film came from LA Times News paper arcticle. There was also a book writen on the character.
It was known that if Jamie Foxx acted the crazy side of his character badly then the film would be a disaster. (crazy gone wrong)
there was people brought from all over the world to america to help out with this film. E.g. the director was Joe Wright and his was British. The Cinema Tographer was seamus McGaney and he was from Scotland.
To create all the street set they only haqd 4 weeks to create and a team of 50.
Most the extra's for this scene were actually homeless people in the first place, the film creators helped them out by teaching them more about the film industry and also giving them a job. There was also a reason for this that they felt bad for taking them out of there home community just to make a film.
they had to teach jamie foxx how to play the instruments