By Robert Scucci
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Some people do not like to know how sausage is done, but with regard to Hollywood initiate stuff, I am always a fan of when the curtain is removed in order to explain how certain scenes of emblematic films have become. After recently revised to Martin Scorsese The deceasedI fell into a rabbit burrow that led me to an interview What a jokeA Netflix is a joke Radio program organized by actor Tom Papa, describing what it was to work with Jack Nicholson, exposing in detail to what extent Bright The actor rewritten one of the most disturbing sequences of the 2006 criminal thriller.
According to Damon, he was sitting alone with Jack Nicholson, who, who did not come, told him that “I would never have done so far in this career if I was not a great writer F * Cking” during a pre-production meeting for The deceased. The discussion in question concerned the emblematic sequence “it fell funny” involving an execution – a simple scene without dialogue – that Jack Nicholson Adding its push in the form of increasingly morbid humor that led to the final cup that we know and love today.
“She fell funny”
Coming from Roger Corman school, Jack Nicholson’s method for this scene in The deceased Implies leaving the camera to run so that it can ad-lib a certain number of lines that Scorsese would then have a last word on what really made the final cut, giving the legendary director a certain number of options with whom to work. The original scene, as it is written, involved Frank Costello de Nicholson to execute a man on his knees in the marshes without a single line of dialogue, or someone else in his business.
Jack Nicholson, the great writer he is, has taken a number of creative freedoms because he “thought he could improve” without adding to The missing The execution time or the budget, like executing a woman instead of a man, then turning to Frenchie of Ray Winstone, who holds an ax to dismember his corpse after having met his spell without ceremony.
“”But if you let the camera roll … “
Wanting to illustrate in uncertain terms how twisted an individual costello is The deceasedJack Nicholson exhibits his ideas in order, always ending with “Now, you could set the scene, but if you leave the camera ride …”
Which started as a simple pass scene in The deceased became the fabric of legend because Jack Nicholson decided that he would not only shoot the woman in the back of the head, but he would say “Jeez, she fell funny”, turns to Frenchie, who holds an ax, would say that he would like to violate his corpse, only for laughter before Frenchie said: “Francis, you should really see someone.”
Each line of increasing dialogue Jack Nicholson proposed for this scene The deceased Painting a living image of the dark vision of the world of Costello, and how these executions are part of his regular life that he is not called by the whole incident to the point of shedding light on the situation, which allowed his partner the crime to be concerned with his mental state.
The final cup of The deceased The fact that we know includes the execution, the line “Jeez, it fell funny” and the response of Frenchie, while the other exchanges found themselves on the floor of the cutting room. But because of Jack Nicholson’s desire to hit the script, and Martin ScorseseThe instinct as a director to work with what Nicholson gave him when they left the camera, the character of Costello is raised at a level that we would never have the chance to see if he interpreted the scene as written.
