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Weird script for the Raft story.

posted 8 years ago by HillaryRacistClinton
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I didn't get the part where the guy felt like molesting the girl. It made no sense in the circumstance they were in. You would think a normal person would be preoccupied about worrying about the blob like monster instead of being a creep.

I thought the Raft story was pretty cool other than the fact that I didn't feel any need for the molestation part. That turned me off as a man and I'm sure it did for many Women viewers as well. I would think sex would be the last thing on someones mind when dealing with a monster.

[–] Illyngophobia 8 years ago

Yeah, I'm not sure why Randy pulled that either, especially after just watching his two friends get killed.

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing. -- Orson Welles

[–] TampaOutlaw84 8 years ago

Maybe the writers did that so you would have a reason to hate Randy's character and make it well worth it to see him die because up until that part Randy was the most likable character.

[–] HillaryRacistClinton 8 years ago

Or maybe the writers were looking for an excuse to see an actresses breasts.

[–] dionnelee1 8 years ago

I think that was the only reason

[–] SilverGameDog 7 years ago

Yep. This.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

The characters behavior was reprehensible but I'm glad for it because a good pair of breasts make any film better, even when the circumstances are bizarre and in poor tatse such as The Evil Dead (1981).

[–] roscoe1185 8 years ago

It is a holdover from the Stephen King book. While it is kind of out of place there as well, the girl actually initiates it, and in fact that's actually his girlfriend although she was more into his buddy leading up to that day. It's not a long novella, but it got stripped down a lot for this segment.

[–] bobbydallas (8059) 4 years ago

Exactly. It wouldn't be a true Stephen King story if there was no sex involved! hehe

[–] ActorHottii980-1 7 years ago

In the Stephen King novella Randy and Laverne have sex to stay warm; it's late night/early early morning and it's described that the weather around the lake is very cold once the sun goes down, and all they're wearing are swimsuits. You should check out the novella, it's way creepier then the movie version, especially the ending!

[–] WandererFromYs (1675) 2 years ago

This is supposed to be Pittsburgh in late October, its cold during the day. Too cold to be outside in your swim trunks at least.

[–] JayceeTatler (99) 6 months ago

Romero's 1984 draft of the script originally envisioned the scene as more explicit and definitely unconsensual "she wakes up. She is pinned under Randy's weight. His face is buried in her chest, his hands are exploring wildly". That line is gone from the 1986 version of the script, and the film follows that by having her waking up and being unaware of what he did to her while she slept. Romero's original script is super horny and highly sexual, uncharacteristically for him. There's something about the LaVerne character that brought out the dirty old man in Romero, with script details like "Randy is watching Laverne's wiggling ass from behind Deke's back" and "her nipples are clearly visible through her wet Horlicks Tee-Shirt, cold hard points". It's an aspect that is toned down slightly for the film, which does tend to miss the point made in the script, that Randy's molestation of LaVerne is an emulation of Deke's touchy feely behaviour towards her "the big oaf is fondling one of Laverne's breasts again...the action makes her Tee-Shirt pull more tightly on the other breast, and the wet, sensuous motion distracts Randy away from his fears".

The 1984 version of the script
drive.google.com/file/d/1uf1_0sXFLpbCOuQAqwyTBGaDfUpMMcTl/view