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Think of them like Cliff's Notes for popular movies, except that Cliff is an asshole because he thinks your favorite movie sucks.
—From the site's FAQ
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The Editing Room is a website that features film scripts of movies that are rewritten in a mocking manner for comedic effect. It was founded by Rod Hilton in 1998, marked a quarter-century in existence in 2023, and is still going strong to this day.
- The Abridged Series: The scripts are essentially an abridged series for movies.
- All There in the Manual: Parodied in the script for The Matrix Reloaded, where the Architect does an Enforced Plug to Keanu Reeves by quoting real-life advertising for Matrix products:
Keanu Reeves: What was the Osiris? And who was that kid in Zion who kept pestering me? |
- Accentuate the Negative: He can be mocking even of films that he really did like.
- Actor Allusion: Actors will make fun of each other by referencing each other's past roles.
- Artistic License Physics: In-work. Fast Five plays so fast and loose with the laws of physics that eventually, the Laws of Physics walk off the set.
- Bat Deduction: How Sherlock Holmes is depicted in Sherlock Holmes.
- Bunny Ears Lawyer: The author has demonstrated a lot of in depth knowledge of various religions and cultures.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Samuel L. Jackson, Chloe Grace Moretz (in the Kick-Ass script), and Bradley Cooper (in The Hangover script)'s dialogue are peppered with curse words.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Did Not Do the Research: Sometimes, Hilton gets the facts confused or misinterprets a plot device, and thus ends up misrepresents the films.
- Downer Ending: Lampshaded in the Winter's Bone script:
JOHN HAWKES: Yeah, this ending is getting a little too happy. This is an Indie movie, your options are bittersweet or fucking miserable. |
- Genre Savvy: The cast in the scripts tend to be aware of the genre they're in and will state the role they fill in the movie.
- Insane Troll Logic: How Robert Langdon's methods of finding each element location is depicted in Angels & Demons. Subverted for the water element:
AYELET ZURER: Wait let me try one. Okay, so this guy was chained up… chains are often used for construction work… the fourth cardinal is at a construction site! |
- Mineral MacGuffin: Called "Macguffium" in the Avatar script and "Plotresolvium" in Chronicle.
- No Fourth Wall: The script is aware that the work is fiction, with actors dissing the movie they're in, directors arguing with the actors, and even the audience is given lines.
- Running Gag: In the Winter's Bone script, every setting is described as bleak, up to the point that one scene is described as "INT. BLEAK SHERIFF STATION, BLEAKITY BLEAK BLEAK"
- Samuel L. Jackson is listed as SAMUEL L MOTHERFUCKING JACKSON in every script he appears in.
- Script Fic: The screenplays are this combined with The Abridged Series.
- Serial Numbers Filed Off: In-work. The original scene descriptions for The Hangover are used in the sequel, but with words scratched out and replaced with new ones.
- Take That, Audience!: Combined with Take That Me in the Kick Ass script. One character makes fun of Ron Paul supporters, then later makes a joke the only thing stupider than abandoning the Deconstructive Parody premise of the story was making fun of Ron Paul supporters on a website that allows comments.
- Trope Name: Stock characters in the script will bluntly state their role in the movie.