Article: Slavin takes novel approach to film debut.(Scene)

"You have a situation that is a dream world for any visual person."

Neal Slavin, in town to promote his directorial debut, "Focus," opening today, is discussing the first time he read the Arthur Miller novel of the same name. Slavin was in college and the book, about a man in 1940s Brooklyn who is the victim of anti-Semitism, spoke to him.

"A man looks a certain way. He takes a pair of glasses and he puts them on and the public around him perceives him as looking different. I used that word looking - he looks different so that's a visual word," Slavin said. "Then you go behind his glasses and you look through them, and what once was a blur is now ...

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