Red Hood- 3 Pages Deleted- 1.5 Pages Written
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010So, I did it. I deleted the three crappy pages that I wrote on Red Hood and replaced it with 1.5 pages of awesome. It wasn’t so bad and I feel like I can move on from here. I sort of got stuck at the end of this last scene, but at least I left on a good note. I’m kind of excited, I get in to the really good stuff soon. It’s hard for me not to write something funny here and there. That’s ok to do in a horror.
Right?
Right, and you know why, because I said so and it’s my script. I mean, I’m not writing Schindlers List here, it’s an over the top vigilante flick. Let the audience have a little fun with it. Either way, I’m having fun writing it. It’s great to finally get my idea on paper.
On top of my script updates, I would like to talk about the movie Real Genius. Apparently, they are doing a remake of it. At least that’s what it looks like via IMDB and various other internet sources. In celebration of this, I figured I would discuss the classic 1985 version staring Val Kilmer. Warning, there will be spoilers.
Mitch Taylor (Gabriel Jarret) is accepted to an insane program for geniuses, focusing around developing some ultimate bad ass laser. Mitch is all proper and shirt tucked in and shit. He is partnered with Chris Knight (Val Kilmer) who’s the type of guy that would show up to a math class in a bathrobe. When asked to do some crazy math shit, would yawn, scratch himself inappropriately, and then lazily stumble to the board and mathematically prove there was no Jesus while sending a text message. They didn’t have text messages back then, so I don’t know, he would send a Morris code? Fuck, who cares, you get the point. Anyway, hilarity ensues. Now in the beginning of the movie we’re lead to believe that Mitch is smarter than Chris Knight. We soon find out that this is total bullshit. While Chris Knight fucks beauticians, Mitch falls in love with some crazy OCD broad that power sands her floor at 3AM. In fact Chris pretty much does everything better than Mitch and he’s cooler.
Lets move on to Kent. Kent is the tool of the film and boy is he ever a tool. The only thing is, he’s not very threatening. I’ve never been able to take a grown man with braces seriously. Why nobody punches him in the face is beyond me. You can tell just by looking at him, he’s a little bitch. He wouldn’t do anything, he would just run off crying. Then when you passed him the halls his bottom lip would quiver and he would avoid eye contact. At one point they put an antenna in this guys mouth and through a microphone convince him they are Jesus. Here it is revealed that Kent masturbates. I could have told you that before that scene. That guy couldn’t get laid if he were a rug. Still, hilarious all the same though. After Mitch and Chris build the ultimate bad ass laser, after Kent fucks up their first one, cause he’s a dick. The bomb is dropped that the laser is actually being developed as a weapon! No shit?! I’m sorry, but I assumed it was a weapon from the beginning of the movie. What the fuck else are you going to do with a laser that blasts through concrete walls and statues and shit? You’re going to blow shit up with it. Mainly people. As you can imagine Chris and Mitch are pretty pissed about this. So, they hack the Gibson (kudos if you understand this) and use the laser to pop a bunch of popcorn in the main bad guys house to the point where the house splits in half. Seriously, that’s what happens. It’s pretty awesome.
While I’m curious to see how they remake Real Genius, part of me want’s them to leave it alone. It’s a great movie as is. Who knows though, maybe the remake will be even better. It’s old enough and wasn’t popular enough for enough people to remember it. So, I doubt they’ll piss off much of a fan base if they screw it up. And really, I wouldn’t care if they screwed it up. The 1986 version would still be good.
