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My introduction to this script was different than any other I’ve ever received (and probably will in the future), as I attended the live read of the screenplay that was staged as a benefit for LACMA’s film program in April of 2014. So my introduction to the whole piece — and its rogues’ gallery of characters — was to see it performed live on stage by about 80% of its principal cast. The movie is broken down into six chapters, and Quentin warned the audience at the very beginning that he’d already completely rewritten the last chapter. So I knew going in that there were rough edges remaining to be worked out. Having said that, I thought the live read was a blast, and having Quentin read the stage directions was akin to having a narrator — one who injected a ton of his own personality into his narration. Given that the movie takes place in primarily two locations, it was perfectly appropriate for the stage, but there were clearly areas that were inherently cinematic in design.
When I received the shooting draft of the script, I learned that a lot more than just the last chapter had changed, and a couple of things came into very clear focus.
There was approximately 40 minutes’ worth of material in my editor’s assembly that didn’t make it into the final cut of the film. Some of the scenes on the cutting room floor were things Quentin knew we weren’t going to use when he showed up in the editing room for the first time. (The screenplay, for example, featured a running gag about rats in the basement of Minnie’s Haberdashery — rats who made a meal out of one of the film’s characters in the last chapter — but Quentin was quite certain from the get-go that that particular gag could be excised without leaving a hint of its existence.) Beyond that, we went on the traditional hunt for scenes or moments that didn’t contribute to story, character or atmosphere, and we got rid of them.
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