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Real Life Parallels - Script vs Film
Aug. 27th, 2004 06:58 pmscript:
EXT. TRAILER PARK MICHIGAN – NIGHT – 1946
Long shot of a luminous silver trailer home.
[cut from completed film.
A pack of black wolves leave a bundle at the door and saunter off, looking back as they go. We hear a baby's cries and the door opens.
A handsome white trash family peer out.]
~~~ So both O. Wilde and C. Wild are left on doorsteps! ~~~
This scene was cut from the completed film but poses the question: was Iggy "white trash"?
Iggy admits that "Our family was definitely the only literate occupant of the entire trailer park." His father was a high school English teacher and a loner who simply didn't want to have neighbors to deal with and a lawn to maintain. The war had put an end to his chance to be a professional baseball player, so his career took a while to get started. Iggy didn't quite fit in with the kids in the trailer park or the kids from school who lived up the road in the suburban housing development but he was so smart as a kid he referred himself as the Atomic Brain.
Stooge Ron Asheton: He was so different, that's what's really funny. He was an honor roll student, he was in debating class. He wore penny loafers with cashmere sweaters, chinos, pinstripes. He wasn't anything like he became.
Angie Bowie: Iggy had school teachers for parents, and he actually read, you know, Dostoevsky and all that kind of crap. ... if you ever did have a serious conversation with him, the whole idea he would point out was that you were ignorant and stupid and he was smart as a whip.
EXT. TRAILER PARK MICHIGAN – NIGHT – 1946
Long shot of a luminous silver trailer home.
[cut from completed film.
A pack of black wolves leave a bundle at the door and saunter off, looking back as they go. We hear a baby's cries and the door opens.
A handsome white trash family peer out.]
This scene was cut from the completed film but poses the question: was Iggy "white trash"?
Iggy admits that "Our family was definitely the only literate occupant of the entire trailer park." His father was a high school English teacher and a loner who simply didn't want to have neighbors to deal with and a lawn to maintain. The war had put an end to his chance to be a professional baseball player, so his career took a while to get started. Iggy didn't quite fit in with the kids in the trailer park or the kids from school who lived up the road in the suburban housing development but he was so smart as a kid he referred himself as the Atomic Brain.
Stooge Ron Asheton: He was so different, that's what's really funny. He was an honor roll student, he was in debating class. He wore penny loafers with cashmere sweaters, chinos, pinstripes. He wasn't anything like he became.
Angie Bowie: Iggy had school teachers for parents, and he actually read, you know, Dostoevsky and all that kind of crap. ... if you ever did have a serious conversation with him, the whole idea he would point out was that you were ignorant and stupid and he was smart as a whip.
