While researching my previous entry, I found a Real Genius screenplay. While it shares much in common which the movie I've watched so obsessively and practically memorized, there are a bunch of differences, I guess things that cut out or changed later. For example, After the initial Darlington Electronics tour where Sherri Nugel meets Chris Knight, they go off and have sex, while she begs him to say hot scientific things!
EXT. ROOF OF HANGER-DUSK
The giant dish of a huge radio telescope faces heavens.
SHERRRY: (between kisses) Talk smart to me.
CHRIS (O.C.): What?
ANGLE ON CHRIS AND SHERRY
They are lying in the middle of the dish. Passion mounts, fingers cope with belts and buttons, clothing falls away; my god, these people are having sex.
SHERRY Please I need it. What was your favorite course?
CHRIS I guess right now I'd have to say Fluid Mechanics.
SHERRY Oooooooooh...
CHRIS (responding to something interesting Sherry just did with her hips) And Gym.
SHERRY Please.
CHRIS Sorry.
SHERRY What's your research with Artherton?
CHRIS Ultra-high power laser as an energy force for fusion. Tremendous boon to all mankind. And womankind, too.
SHERRY Fusion, more fusion.
CHRIS It's the process for obtaining enormous amounts of energy from forms of hydrogen, like Deuterium and Tritium.
SHERRY Oh, my God, more.
CHRIS Extracting the fuels is no problem.
SHERRY Hmmmm.
CHRIS Getting them to combine and release the energy is the problem.
SHERRY Oohh, yes
CHRIS It takes temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius.
SHERRY Oh, God.
CHRIS So, I'm...
SHERRY Yes.
CHRIS...building...
SHERRY Yes.
CHRIS ...a laser...
SHERRY Oh, yes.
CHRIS ...that pulses...
SHERRY Hmmmmmmmm.
CHRIS ...very hot...
SHERRY Ohhh...
CHRIS ...and causes...
SHERRY Yes.
CHRIS...Fusion...
SHERRY Ahhhhhhhhhhh.
Lots of other interesting minor changes. For example, in the Science Fair in the beginning, the experiment was originally the effects of marijuana on chinchillas, whereas what we saw was effects of alcohol on laboratory rats. The device Chris is playing with when Mitch first comes in is an automatic batting machine, which knocks balls through the window, rather than the cool flying gyroscope. And there's even a bit of Chris playing Lawn Chair Larry. Anyway, a fair number of differences, some of which are quite funny.
EXT. ROOF OF HANGER-DUSK
The giant dish of a huge radio telescope faces heavens.
SHERRRY: (between kisses) Talk smart to me.
CHRIS (O.C.): What?
ANGLE ON CHRIS AND SHERRY
They are lying in the middle of the dish. Passion mounts, fingers cope with belts and buttons, clothing falls away; my god, these people are having sex.
SHERRY Please I need it. What was your favorite course?
CHRIS I guess right now I'd have to say Fluid Mechanics.
SHERRY Oooooooooh...
CHRIS (responding to something interesting Sherry just did with her hips) And Gym.
SHERRY Please.
CHRIS Sorry.
SHERRY What's your research with Artherton?
CHRIS Ultra-high power laser as an energy force for fusion. Tremendous boon to all mankind. And womankind, too.
SHERRY Fusion, more fusion.
CHRIS It's the process for obtaining enormous amounts of energy from forms of hydrogen, like Deuterium and Tritium.
SHERRY Oh, my God, more.
CHRIS Extracting the fuels is no problem.
SHERRY Hmmmm.
CHRIS Getting them to combine and release the energy is the problem.
SHERRY Oohh, yes
CHRIS It takes temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius.
SHERRY Oh, God.
CHRIS So, I'm...
SHERRY Yes.
CHRIS...building...
SHERRY Yes.
CHRIS ...a laser...
SHERRY Oh, yes.
CHRIS ...that pulses...
SHERRY Hmmmmmmmm.
CHRIS ...very hot...
SHERRY Ohhh...
CHRIS ...and causes...
SHERRY Yes.
CHRIS...Fusion...
SHERRY Ahhhhhhhhhhh.
Lots of other interesting minor changes. For example, in the Science Fair in the beginning, the experiment was originally the effects of marijuana on chinchillas, whereas what we saw was effects of alcohol on laboratory rats. The device Chris is playing with when Mitch first comes in is an automatic batting machine, which knocks balls through the window, rather than the cool flying gyroscope. And there's even a bit of Chris playing Lawn Chair Larry. Anyway, a fair number of differences, some of which are quite funny.
- Mood:recovering
- Music:Pet Shop Boys-Very-The Theatre


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I'm afraid that the only movie I've "watched obsessively and practically memorized" is this one:
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue05/inf
Dear Babs. So lovely and so pale.
J. Sabotta (www.no-treason.com)
Alan's decision to remain in the house till the end is subject to different interepretations, but one of them clearly stands out as inescapable: he stays so that he can die. In this, he is, as always, faithful to the logic of viewership: we all give our lives to the entertainments we take up with. As the ghosts tell Alan as they pursue him through the castle: "Your blood means our life. Through you, we will live." - Chris Fujiwara