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Posted by Derek Janssen on 12/13/06 22:09
jayembee wrote:
> Derek Janssen <ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
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>>(Okay, I know "Good morning, Mr. Briggs" gets replaced, but what
>>other changes were there besides the babe-rotation?)
>
> Swapping out Martin Landau for Leonard Nimoy.
(Mmm, maybe, but which of the two do YOU think could more convincingly
play Bela Lugosi in "Ed Wood"?) ;)
>>Unfortunately, the First movie assumed we already knew the show
>>by heart and tried to branch out,
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> Which is probably it's only saving grace. I'm not a big fan of
> DePalma, but Robert Towne at least *tried* to write it Old School.
I put that down to David "Spiderman"/"Shadow" Koepp, who had co-story
credit--
Towne had #2 all to himself, and was likely the one who threw in all the
pompous "social meaning" at the end of #1 <ahem, spoilers>.
> And Towne had gone on record as saying that Woo basically told him
> what kind of stunts he wanted to put in the film, and asked Towne
> to write the screenplay around them. And it shows. But Towne isn't
> completely blameless, either, because even a lot of the non-stunt
> scenes make almost no sense whatsoever.
Towne was one of the Great 70's screenwriters ("Chinatown"), but he
hasn't quite been able to grasp the 80's, 90's or 00's, for his last few
films.
Any of the confused off-topic M:I bits, I tend to credit in his lap.
Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net
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