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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 12/20/2009 : 2:04:57 PM
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The sad thing is, I don't think Cracked isn't fooling around this time. But even if it is just a put-on, it's still hilarious.
[url]http://www.cracked.com/article_16716_7-terrible-early-versions-great-movies.html[/url]
The Spider-man stuff in particular had me LOL. |
Edited by - zombiewhacker on 12/20/2009 2:07:03 PM
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TVsGrady
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 12/20/2009 : 7:48:25 PM
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For what it's worth, I've actually read those early scripts for BTTF and Star Wars, and this article is describing *those* accurately.
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 12/21/2009 : 05:18:15 AM
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| That was a very interesting read. And I guess many films we end up watching in theatres start as extremely silly, incomplete pieces of junk. I have no clue on how many rewrites is the industry standards, but I've heard of Hollywood movies having as much as 25 rewrites before all parts settling on a shooting script. |
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Bobby-G
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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RossM
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
427 Posts |
Posted - 12/26/2009 : 03:59:37 AM
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| The Last Action Hero went the other direction. It bagan as a clever paridy of the buddy cop action hero genre and then got over whelmed by Hollywood rewrites. Arnold got involved and then it got bigger and bigger and more and more unintelligible as the Hollywood suites insisted that this and that had to be added in order to appeal to this or that demographic. The result was a mess adn a box office disaster. |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 12/28/2009 : 05:17:36 AM
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| Thanks Bobby-G, that link was very interesting. I already knew most of the rewrites are done to satisfy the ego of the attached stars and directors, but it still is very iluminating as to how the whole process can ruin a decent script. What puzzles me is that some of the movies that end up being produced are good despite all this. |
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RossM
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 12/28/2009 : 06:52:08 AM
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| Thanks for this link. I too found the article to very interesting. |
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