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May 22, 2008
The 48 Hr Diaries... Week One
Welcome to MCN's new weekly series, The 48 Hrs. Journals, screenwriter Larry Gross's contemporaneous diary from the set of the classic that launched the buddy/cop craze of the 80s. I expect you will find it interesting, frustrating, and thought-provoking. A glimpse...
"I don't know what you've heard...I've been working this fella and while I like em I know it's not gonna work out...."
That's Walter referring to my predecessor on the project Steve De Souza.
"I been reading a few things...the script needs some things you do well I always think do less well. I gotta bunch of people standing my office wanting know whether to make the police cars red or blue...It's brushwork on the script that's needed...basically this things a pounder... a shaggy dog story. Defiant Ones plus chuckles...I'll be honest with ya...with four weeks till we shoot you probably won't get screenwriting credit...basically all you got time for is to do what I tell ya...are ya interested?"
Posted by poland at May 22, 2008 12:29 AM
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Great stuff. Thanks for posting, DP.
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at May 22, 2008 09:48 AM
Holy shit, this is like mama's milk for screenwriters. Great stuff. From Tolstoy to car chases!
Posted by: christian at May 22, 2008 10:45 AM
THIS. WAS. AWESOME.
Great anecdotes, great movie, great characters involved... great era in general.
Maybe it's just my Gen-X age range, but I always imagine how awesome it would've been to be in the biz in the early-to-mid '80s, right when guys like Silver and Co. and Simpson/Bruckheimer were in their heyday, directors like DePalma, Hill, Milius and Carpenter were firing with guns blazing, the extended network of Brat Packers were first popping up in big movies... and Eddie Murphy was HUUUUUUUUUGE.
Posted by: LexG at May 22, 2008 10:58 AM
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