Paul Scheer (2:32)
Hello all you Gerard Butt Heads. And I mean that not like in the Biff Tannen sense of the word butthead. But as someone who is like a fan of Gerard Butler's butt. People, this is a classy show. And you know what? I'm a fucking classy host. I'm Paul Scheer. Welcome to how did this get made? Last Looks. And I'm so happy that you're here today because you are going to finally be heard. I mean, you. It's going to be a majority of me reading your voice and then just me disregarding what you have to say and just talking to Jason. But you, for the first part of this, it's all going to be about you, okay? You're going to voice your issues on Law Abiding Citizen, a movie that Discord user. Repo Manish. I like that. Thinks should have had the tagline Law Abiding Citizen Trial by Jerry. I like it. I like it a lot. Repo Manish coming in with not only a great name, but a great alt movie tagline. Gotta give a big shout out to Benjamin Helton for that polka remix of our opening song. Thank you, Benjamin. That was just the kind of remix I needed. I didn't know I needed polka. And I didn't know besides Weird Al Yankovic, people are doing polka remixes Anyway. Remember, people, if you have an alt movie tagline, submit it to us on our Discord at Discord GG hdtgm. And if you have a Last looks theme song, go to hdtgm.com click on the submit a song button. It's easy. You just pop it right in there. Keep them short, keep them fun, and let's keep them coming. Today we are going to be hearing all your corrections and omissions on Law Abiding Citizen. Plus, I'll even share a bonus deleted scene from our live show. Then Jason will stop by for Just Chat, where we will recommend a whole slew of TV shows, music and movies that we are currently loving. And these have been fun. Jason and I have not had a chance to really connect on all this good stuff that we have been consuming. And as always, I will reveal the movie for next week's episode. Now we are back at Largo in Los Angeles on April 1st, doing our first live show in almost five months. Holy cow. It's been very long. We're going to be covering the Pierce Brosnan action flick Livewire. We have a very special guest and maybe even two. You can get your tickets now@hdtgm.com and then guess what? Next week on A Thursday, we are putting together the biggest cast of all time doing improv together. Me, Jason, Edie Patterson, Carl Tart, Lisa Gilroy, Seth Morris, Corinne Wells. So many great people come out and check that out on March 26, also at Largo. You can go to my website. You can go to hdtgm.com anywhere to get the tickets for both of these shows. All right, people, let's get into it. We had questions and you apparently have answers. It is time for us to get down to business. Set us straight, if you will, as we get into something I like to call corrections and omissions. Mad Licks, take us in. Corrections and omissions. You were wrong. Okay, everybody, big news. Every now and then doing this show, we hear from somebody who has worked on one of the films that we have talked about. Today is one of those days. That's right. We have an anonymous source from Law Abiding Citizen who has given us some details, some things that are gonna be some real head scratchers. So sit back, relax, and enjoy an anonymously sourced recounting of some of the things that that went astray on Law Abiding Citizen. Okay, just to refresh everybody's memory, Law Abiding Citizen ends with Jamie Foxx going to see his daughter play the cello. And we thought the most appropriate ending to this film would be if Clyde rigged her cello to explode, killing everyone. The ultimate revenge. And what we are finding out is we weren't that far off. Okay, so many people on the crew thought that's the natural ending of the movie, right? It should just happen like that. It may not be the feel good ending, but it makes sense. And the movie's already a little bit crazy. Now here is a bit of backstory that I didn't know. The film was shot entirely in script order, which is just, if you don't know, kind of crazy and unheard of. But it wasn't trying to prove a point. It was really just because of the. A myriad of factors, right? You had weather, you had actor schedules, you had set construction. And the biggest part was they didn't have a third act. That's right. This movie was greenlit without a third act and they needed to get it in theaters. So they thought if we move forward in script order, we can always be adjusting for continuity sake. You know, you'll never have to be in a position where you're like, oh, it would be so great if he did this. Oh, but we already shot that six weeks ago. So it was actually a really smart way of addressing It. But because there was no third act and because they were shooting in order, there were a myriad of script revisions. I mean, all the time. According to my source here, they were getting pages slipped under their hotel doors at 3am and every Saturday and Sunday, brand new pages. And there were like over six writers working on this film and all very high end names. Then you also had the talent and the director. Everyone was adding in to make this movie as good as it could be because they knew what this movie was. Yes, it was absurd, but they were committed to making it work, right? They wanted to make the film make sense. So in many respects, and this is what my anonymous source says, there was a lot of care put into it, but it didn't always work out. Now, with a day or two left in production, the shooting script had reached quadruple goldenrod. Okay? Now, if you're not familiar with production, every time you write a script and you put it in production, it changes color. So the first draft is white, the second draft blue, then pink, then yellow, then green, and then goldenrod. And then it continues on with, like buff salmon cherry. And what this person is telling me is it went to quadruple goldenrod, which is like the 25th script that has come out. And there was a joke around set. Has anyone ever worked on a quadruple cherry script? Which would be the final color it would be before it flipped to quintuple white. And no one had ever heard of such an absurd achievement. So on the final day of production, it was the viola performance of Nick's daughter at the end of the film. So the night before, one of the producers jokingly sent around pages for a quote unquote new ending, where Nick and his wife settle into their seats, the lights go down, the conductor starts the recital and the viola explodes, and then the drums, and then the violins and the oboes, et cetera. The entire theater detonates into a mushroom cloud. Fade to black. Now, everyone read the fake pages and they thought it was a hilarious and fitting end. But yes, that's all it was. It was a prank. They all felt that Clyde's gags were super fun and over the top and would be honestly, more entertaining than the real ending. But alas, they did not ever shoot it. It was just a prank. It was a memorable prank to lift everybody's spirit to get through that last day of principal photography. But it did give this film the unique distinction of having a quadruple cherry status on scripts. Now, I will say this. I love when people share their stories this is an amazing one. I love knowing that there was a lot of care here. And I don't think that this movie feels lazy. It's just improbable. And that may come from the fact that there are seven writers and people just trying to make it better and better and better. And I think the turns were really good. It just forgot some of the justifications. I don't know. I still think that there's a great movie in here, but look, that's from someone who was on set. Now let's focus on you. Let's go to the discord. Sam writes, a friend of mine worked on the movie and told me that the production office shipped back a bunch of unused fake blood to the special effects company, but the PAs didn't pack it right and it leaked all over the FedEx truck. And the FedEx was going to call a specialist or a HAZMAT team to investigate it until the production's regular FedEx guy realized that the package came from the movie. Sam, I love that and how freaked out that driver must have been to see just blood. They thought. I mean, there's definitely a moment where you're like, oh, I am carrying Gwyneth Paltrow's head here. I have a seven style murderer on my hands. I wish we should do more, like, more pranking of FedEx drivers. That was what I was about to say. And I was like, no, no, we shouldn't do that. I saw a video with this guy, Airac. He's a YouTuber. Yeah, I have kids where he shipped himself across country. But now I'm hearing that Arak is fake. Anyone want to weigh in on that, let me know. Ryan says says. So a couple of corrections here from the perspective of a prison librarian. Oh, wow, Ryan. I didn't know that. First of all, Butler would most definitely not be held in a prison while on trial, as he's only been accused of a crime. He'd be in jail or a holding center in the courthouse itself. It would be a litigation nightmare if an innocent person got hurt by an inmate while still on trial. Okay, great. I like that. And I didn't also know the difference between jail and prison. And thank you for not hitting it over the head too much, but yes, those are two different places. Second, it's very much a failure on the prison's part for not checking in on Butler while in solitary as there is a risk of escape or suicide. Well, look, we're dealing with that in the real world, right? Jeffrey Epstein, now, Ryan says continues by saying the institutions in my state have a log system where officers have to physically touch a tracking scanner on the door and then go to a data pad after looking in the window of the cell door to see a moving, breathing flesh. I don't like how you said moving, breathing flesh. Just say a person. We're all moving, breathing flesh. Oh, I don't like it. Anyway, these checks are done every half hour. Johnny Unusual writes. It's worth noting that the writer on this film is Kurt Wimmer, master of films that are both tremendously preposterous and very dumb and still very fun. He's written the how did this get made classics, ultraviolet, the Beekeeper, Expendables 4 and Double Trouble. I'm not going to name the films because it's not a recommendation station, but I assure you that if you are ever stuck for movies, most of his films are the right kind of movies for this show. You can probably skip his Total Recall end Point Break remakes. Johnny Unusual, thank you for not making this a recommendation station. And as a matter of fact, because you didn't, now I am inclined to. To go deeper. But you're right about Total Recall and Point Break. What whiffs Like a whiff and a miss. I mean, or I guess a whiff is a miss. Sean McBee writes, I read the entire screenplay for the movie and I have notes. Well, Sean, thank you. While the film credits Kurt Wimmer as the solo writer, the script is written by Frank Darabont, following Wimmer's previous draft. This is interesting. Johnny Unusual, take notes. I know about this because when I first came out to la, people were talking about this script. They're like, we have the next seven. And this was the movie it became. I may have said this in the actual episode, it became this. But let's find out why. Sean McBee continues to write and says the script skips the actual crime opening with Clyde's 911 call. Clyde didn't even witness the crime, but came in to find his family already dead. Oh, I like that. I like that. It's a little bit. I mean, that opening was rough. There's a reason given for Clyde being in the prison and for how he was able to tunnel into all the cells. Due to overcrowding in the jail, this old and disused prison has recently been opened as an annex to the county jail. This all makes so much sense. Okay, Clyde is the first person to occupy those solitary cells in over 20 years. No word on how he could have known that overcrowding would force this old building back into use, though. All right. But by the way, love all these reasons the version of the script doesn't have the cemetery scene. Instead, it establishes at the beginning of the movie that Bruce McGill's character is going blind and going through training with a guide dog. And when we skip forward 10 years later, his guide dog is wearing a cone of shame to indicate the dog recently had some sort of surgery. But whatever surgery the dog had came with something a little extra. Courtesy of Clyde. Yes, Bruce McGill is killed via exploding guide dog. It is somehow even more ridiculous than the cemetery Murderbot.
