I finally got to write a snooty Josh Hartnett O piece, which is legit a bucket list item. I had an interesting process for note-taking his performance, which I thought might be something I could turn into some kind of content, but then decided no. Maybe for something else (with that same process), but not O. I do have a couple video pieces I’m planning on doing with the film, but next week. Or later. Not on a schedule.
When prepping the post for publishing, I went back and forth on pictures. Should I have stills from the film, should I use publicity shots or screen-grabs. When I started writing it, I intended to have quotes amidst the text and went ahead and did quotes. But not until I looked at the second disc of the old Lionsgate DVD special edition and found the deleted scenes. I skipped through them, trying to see if there’d be interesting shots to use for post images.
And what appears to be in the deleted scenes is all the “teen movie” stuff and way too much of it. It looks like the deleted scenes probably ruin Mekhi Phifer and Julia Stiles’s relationship, give Josh Hartnett and Elden Henson a lot more morose antics (without hurting their performances), and I don’t know what else. It’s really good they went, especially given where Tim Blake Nelson takes the movie. He really doesn’t get his due as a director.
Leave a Reply