27-years ago today “Pulp Fiction” premiered in theaters (1994)... pic.twitter.com/oWsvzVCNYn

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 14, 2021

Kevin the 3-legged dog said:

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Here's another one from the Tao of Screenwriting....

https://thetaoofscreenwriting.quora.com/?__ni__=0&__tiids__=32572065&__filter__=all&__nsrc__=notif_page&__sncid__=16746630681&__snid3__=23583339057#anchor

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JJ Abrams made an impact on the final cut of John Carpenter's Escape From New York when he was a teenager.

Abrams' father took him to a test screening of the film before its release. After the screening, Carpenter wanted to discuss the film. Some kid in the back of the audience raised his hand and asked what had happened to the character of Maggie, played by Adrienne Barbeau.

The fate of her character was only implied when she was hit by a car.
Because of this note, Carpenter got a small crew together, had Barbeau get back into her wardrobe, and shot a quick insert shot of her character being dead and covered in blood. The scene was shot in John Carpenter's garage.
Who was the kid? JJ Abrams.
Barbeau told her story to Variety:

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"J.J. raised his hand afterward and asked John, 'What happened to Maggie?' I guess he didn't think it was clear enough that she died when the car hit her. So a short while later, John and I got together with a very small film crew, and we went into our home's garage and shot that final image of Maggie covered in blood. I got back in my costume and makeup, roasted another turkey for my hair, laid down on the floor of the garage, and they poured blood all around me and shot that last scene of dead Maggie."

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But wait, it gets better.
Abrams told NPR of the story of his father's contribution to the final cut of the film.

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"So I'm sitting there in this theater and John Carpenter starts this film and there was a whole opening sequence where the main character, Snake Plissken, is robbing a bank and he ends up getting caught, and the movie plays and the whole thing, it was magical, like it was amazing. And the movie was over and John Carpenter said, you know, okay, I want to talk about the movie. And what I learned was just by watching him be open to any criticism. And it was just incredible watching him take notes that were sometimes easy and understandable, other times huge, and he knew he had a movie that at the time was problematic in certain ways and he was trying to fix it. And I remember my dad raised his hand. I was like ooh, God. What? Just dont... And he said yes. You know, my dad said cut the opening for the movie. And I thought, I'm leaving. I am out. So mad that I'm here. I am so humiliated. And John Carpenter said, what do you mean? And my dad said Snake Plissken is a more imposing character, he's more of a mythic character if you don't see him get caught. That when you meet him he's already held and you know. And I thought this is just the dumbest thing I've ever heard. God, I wish he hadn't said that. And in the final movie John Carpenter cut it out and that whole sequence is not in the film."

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Fat Bib Fortuna said:

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The Murphy house in Robocop II is my Greek aunt's old house in the Montrose area of Houston. While they were scouting locations to shoot the movie, they approached her and offered her $5,000 to use her house for one day of shooting.

The opening part with Murphy in the squad car watching the kid on the bike ride up and greet his mom is her house on the outside. None of the flashbacks were filmed there, but the little part where his widow is looking out the blinds as he drives by is inside my aunt's house as well.




https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?locations=1811%20McDuffie%20St,%20Houston,%20Texas,%20USA&ref_=ttloc_loc_1

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A Bastrop house I lived in for a few years as a kid was later used in a Glidden paint commercial, then featured throughout an entire movie starring Willem Dafoe, Julia Roberts, and Ryan Reynolds (it was a huge flop apparently). It's a nice older home but certainly not special, even in Bastrop which is full of great old houses. Very surreal to see it on screen.

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What are the biggest 20+year-old blockbusters have never had any kind of alternative version?

(no ‘special edition’, no director’s cut, no ‘IMAX’ version, no added visual effects, no paintouts of crew members, crew reflections, etc.)

— Todd Vaziri (@tvaziri) November 15, 2021

schmendeler said:

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Gladiator? Just a guess.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Yeah we don't really need the present day stuff.

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TCTTS said:

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This ALIEN synopsis from a Hong Kong bootleg DVD needs to be in a museum and guarded as a cultural treasure. pic.twitter.com/KHCj9gHEr7

— Beyond Fest (@BeyondFest) January 10, 2022

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Roland Emmerich says they rewrote the 'Independence Day: Resurgence' script in two weeks after Will Smith abruptly dropped out. https://t.co/b1IFVmjpFx

— TheWrap (@TheWrap) February 3, 2022

Chris Farley would have been 58 today. What a loss.

Chris was originally selected to voice Shrek along side Eddie Murphy as Donkey. He had recorded nearly all of his lines before his death. https://t.co/fQ13oXuJf3

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) February 15, 2022

TCTTS said:

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This explains a lot…

Roland Emmerich says they rewrote the 'Independence Day: Resurgence' script in two weeks after Will Smith abruptly dropped out. https://t.co/b1IFVmjpFx

— TheWrap (@TheWrap) February 3, 2022

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Josh Brolin's No Country For Old Men role was originally Heath Ledger’s https://t.co/ZVk2LATiH9 pic.twitter.com/o3HvqrGhBm

— The A.V. Club (@TheAVClub) May 5, 2022

I can't get my head round that. The man who literally won an Oscar for co-writing L.A. Confidential, and the genius author of the original book, come to you with a sequel idea that will star the original cast and one of the hottest young movie stars on the planet, and you say no.

— Chris Hewitt (@ChrisHewitt) May 20, 2022

Me going into Universal to pitch Jaws 4: “What if... https://t.co/7XjZKt1wLd

— Matt Singer (@mattsinger) May 20, 2022