Lloyd's dream comes true when Diane accepts his invitation to a graduation party. There is only one thing that all-around nice guy Lloyd wants for his high school graduation: a date with beautiful valedictorian Diane Court (Skye). Diane falls for Lloyd, whose John Cusack plays Lloyd Dobler-an average guy with a penchant for kickboxing. That’s in the movie.Summary: John Cusack plays Lloyd Dobler-an average guy with a penchant for kickboxing. “Those moments built a scene where Lloyd’s passion and nervousness just broke your heart. “Richie and I were in the editing room, and John is still kind of working his way through this speech, which is like brand new on the day, and Richie started to guide towards using some of the mistakes and the flubs,” Crowe said. While Cusack had a wealth of material to work with, Crowe said that Marks encouraged not only cutting the scene down, but using some of the imperfections in delivery that make it feel so indelibly Lloyd. You see it in a glimpse when he says, ‘I don’t want to join that corporation’ about the Army.” “It was a cool thing, he mentioned Daniel Ellsburg and Reagan, and it was really striking that Lloyd had this thing. “For example, the ‘bought, sold, or processed’ scene, there was a kind of straight up version of that, where John is giving you our distillation of this eight pages he had come in with that day,” Crowe said. When it came to discussing the “career plans” speech, Crowe pointed to it as a prime example of how editing can shape key scenes in films.Ĭrowe said that editor Richard Marks, who passed away just last year, was compelled to make sure that “every little beat click” and “taking it a little further down the line to feeling like you were getting in deeper and deeper and deeper emotionally with these characters.” While the original version of the speech - which Crowe completed writing just hours before they shot the scene, a “final version” of the screenplay doesn’t even include it - pushed into eight pages, he credited Marks for honing it down to its best possible version. Brooks were all on hand to discuss the film and their (many) fond memories around its creation. Tribeca Awards 2022: 'Good Girl Jane,' 'January,' and 'The Cave of Adullam' Take Top HonorsĪ History of Unsimulated Sex Scenes in Cannes Films, from 'Mektoub' to 'Antichrist'Īt a special 30th anniversary reunion screening and panel mounted by the Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday night, Crowe, Skye, Cusack (via videochat), and producer James L. 'Alone Together' Review: Katie Holmes' COVID Lockdown Rom-Com Quietly Shines, Until It Doesn't The result is a charming, if somewhat stilted monologue about Lloyd’s desires - he doesn’t “want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career,” or any other permutation of those tasks - but as Crowe himself tells it, the speech could have been significantly longer, and a bit weirder to boot.
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