If you guys had read the first draft script
You would be appalled. I refuse to see this movie because of it, it was that bad.
When you grow up, your heart dies.
There was an alternative end?
shareThere was an alternative everything...the first draft is so awful, it will always baffle me that someone read it and went, "Yep, let's greenlight this." My god.
When you grow up, your heart dies.
You haven't seen the film, yet you know that it alternates everywhere from the first draft. Riiight.
Whoever read it produced a film that is rated 94 per cent on rottentomatoes, so you also baffle me.
When I said "alternative everything" it was just a figure of speech. I didn't mean everything had literally changed. Anyways, I've seen the movie since my first post, I was forced to watch it. The movie was actually a lot better than the script. What must have happened was they read a bad script with a good idea, commissioned a lot of rewrites, possibly bringing on seasoned writers, then made the movie. But the first draft was really awful. I don't understand how the final script was nominated for an Oscar and the first one was so bad, and both were written by the same person. This really baffles me.
You heart me? What is that? Is that like I love you for pussies?
Post us the first draft then. There is only one writing credit for this film, seasoned writers coming in should have got a credit.
shareI can't post it. I have no idea how my professor got it but the fact that it doesn't exist anywhere on the internet should say that it's not widely available for a reason, and I don't want to violate that reason. Yeah, I know, you'll probably think I'm lying about having a copy, but I honestly wouldn't go to so much trouble to post on the board of some decade old movie otherwise.
You heart me? What is that? Is that like I love you for pussies?
OK that's fair enough.
But why would your professor give you a bad first draft, then not explain the process from bad draft to great script and film? Is he just a bitter man?
Ha. He is a bitter man, sometimes. No, it was so we could do a development report on it.
You heart me? What is that? Is that like I love you for pussies?