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* [[Jim Carrey]], in an interview during the making of ''[[Me Myself and Irene]]'' said, "It's amazing how blank a script will be. It just says 'Jim does something funny.'" |
* [[Jim Carrey]], in an interview during the making of ''[[Me Myself and Irene]]'' said, "It's amazing how blank a script will be. It just says 'Jim does something funny.'" |
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* Stanley Kubrick almost never allowed this; one exception he made was for Peter Sellers in ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]''. Largely because you never tried to pin down Peter Sellers. |
* Stanley Kubrick almost never allowed this; one exception he made was for Peter Sellers in ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]''. Largely because you never tried to pin down Peter Sellers. |
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** He also made an exception for [[R. Lee Ermey]] in ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'', since there's no point scripting lines for a [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] character when you have [[Truth in Television|the real deal]] on hand who is perfectly capable of improvising for fifteen straight minutes while being pelted with tennis balls and rotten oranges and without moving, changing expression, ''or repeating himself once''. |
** He also made an exception for [[R. Lee Ermey]] in ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'', since there's no point scripting lines for a [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] character when you have [[Truth in Television|the real deal]] on hand who is perfectly capable of improvising for fifteen straight minutes while being pelted with tennis balls and rotten oranges and without moving, changing expression, ''or repeating himself once''. <ref>[[Cluster F-Bomb|(Mostly.)]]</ref> |
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* A fair amount of the [[Bob Hope]]/[[Bing Crosby]] ''[[Road To|Road]]'' pictures consisted of this, despite the fact that a script theoretically existed. Dorothy Lamour later described her contribution to the films as "like I was watching a game of tennis". |
* A fair amount of the [[Bob Hope]]/[[Bing Crosby]] ''[[Road To|Road]]'' pictures consisted of this, despite the fact that a script theoretically existed. Dorothy Lamour later described her contribution to the films as "like I was watching a game of tennis". |
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* By the time the [[Three Stooges]]' "schtick" was well-established, script writers found it easier to just write in generic stage instructions such as "Moe punishes Curly" and let the boys work it out on their own. (A lot easier than writing out "Moe punches Curly in the stomach, bops him in the forehead, twists his ears," etc.) Curly's reactions and half-hearted or backfiring attempts at revenge were also often ad-libbed. |
* By the time the [[Three Stooges]]' "schtick" was well-established, script writers found it easier to just write in generic stage instructions such as "Moe punishes Curly" and let the boys work it out on their own. (A lot easier than writing out "Moe punches Curly in the stomach, bops him in the forehead, twists his ears," etc.) Curly's reactions and half-hearted or backfiring attempts at revenge were also often ad-libbed. |
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