(June 20, 2021 at 9:57 am)Brian37 Wrote: It is my understanding, for example, that in the original Indiana Jones "Raiders Of The Lost Ark", that the seen that Jones ends up fleeing the Nazis to end up in a small desert town only to face off with a guy with a sword who keeps swinging it around, and the writers in reality didn't really know how to end the fight in the script, and Harrison Ford simply pulled out his gun and pretended to shoot the guy with the sword. The director loved it, so they kept it in the script. At least that is my understanding.
How about you, television or movies, post your stories of improvisation that was not in an original script that ended in the final cut. And no, I am not talking about late night shows or things like Saturday Night Live. Just scripted sitcoms, or scripted movies.
In the first Star Wars movie, at the end where they're attacking the Death Star, the original script called for Luke's shot to miss. The Death Star wouldn't be destroyed, Luke would go home, and the sequel would be all set up.
But during filming Mark Hamill just said, ah, fuck it, and blew up the Death Star. Thousands of lives were lost. Worse, they had to get a new script for the sequel.
