Re: Re: Thank all you for thinking about question

[Dennis Baron]

On Jan 26, 2004, at 1:59 PM, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

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> In a message dated 1/26/04 1:28:04 PM, debaron at UIUC.EDU writes:
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>> Of course, since the movie example is scripted and edited, I'm
>> assuming
>> it's less likely to be performance error.
>>
>> Dennis
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> I'm sure you've checked to make sure that what you are looking at is a
> script
> for the movie rather than a transcript? Often the published versions
> of movie
> "scripts" actually is a transcript of what was actually said. For
> example,
> Cary Grant's infamously perplexing ejaculation, "Because I've just
> gone gay all
> of a sudden," in the 1938 movie BRINGING UP BABY, was actually an ad
> lib, not
> in the original script. But the printed versions always have it,
> anyway.
>
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No, I didn't. I'm just assuming that even if it was ad lib, it was
consciously left in by the editor or director, in the final cut. Sure
they miss things, it's just more likely than not that the dialogue had
some official ok before release.

D



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