petermorwood:johnnysilverhand:I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off
petermorwood:johnnysilverhand:I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser gate. All those… moments will be lost in time… like… tears in rain. Time to die.The Wikipedia “Tears in rain monologue” mentions that Rutger Hauer did indeed cut the scripted speech and improvised the classic “All those moments…” line.What’s not mentioned, but quoted in Paul Sammon’s “Future Noir: the Making of Blade Runner” (p.196) is that he also gave full credit to the original writer…“…everyone always writes about me and that speech, and ignores the screenwriter. I thought David Peoples, the man who wrote that (scripted) version of Batty’s soliloquy, really did a beautiful job. I loved those images he came up with…”Diane and I are novelists, so very much our own boss until the editors get involved. But we’re also screenwriters (a species widely considered to be at the bottom of the food chain), and there are many people further up trying to prove their influence, justify their salaries or even merely keep their reserved parking space (oh yes, that too!)So there’s often squabbling about who gets the kudos for some unnoticed idea / line / piece of business that six months or a year later turns into a part of pop culture.Look at George Lucas’s claim of basing Star Wars on monomyth, despite early interviews that don’t mention Joseph Campbell or mythology at all, but spend a lot of time on Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Saturday serials (never mind plot holes that prove SW was made up on the fly.)Look at the different opinions over who really wrote the “Indianapolis monologue” in Jaws. Steven Spielberg says it was a collaboration between uncredited screenwriter Howard Sackler, script doctor John Milius and actor/playwright Robert Shaw), but depending on which interview you watch or which website has what bias, you’d never know.When that pop-culture entry happens, it’s probably easy amid all the fuss and spotlights for the names of who else might deserve a bit of credit to slip from memory. If that happens once and the kudos-claimer doesn’t get pulled on it, then doing it again the next time is…“Yes. Considerably…”But not in this case!Bravo, Mijnheer Hauer! In naam van scriptschrijvers overal, hartelijk dank! -- source link
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