Just to break things up a bit, I’m going to post something non-eccescopic today.<\/p>\n
I attended a talk yesterday by Tim Johnson — the writer of many Dreamworks films. He pointed out that back when he directed Antz<\/i>, there was a scene where Sharon Stone’s character asks Woody Allen’s character to dance (which in movie terms means she likes him, and that eventually she will sleep with him).<\/p>\n
The script calls for Allen just to say “Yes”. But, Mr. Johnson revealed, Woody Allen ad libbed, and replaced the simple “Yes” with the much more effective line “Absolutely!”.<\/p>\n
Fast forward ten years, from 1998 to 2008. In the David Fincher film Benjamin Buttton<\/i> the character of Daisy, played by Cate Blanchett, at one point says to the eponymous character, played by Brad Pitt, “Sleep with me.”<\/p>\n
In what turned out to be my favorite line of the movie, he replies “Absolutely!”.<\/p>\n
It occurred to me, in that moment, that the writer Eric Roth probably lifted the line from Woody Allen’s ad lib of ten years earlier.<\/p>\n
Which might have made it the first time in history that Woody Allen gave dating advice to Brad Pitt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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