I wound up tossing and turning for two hours last night and came up with dialogue for my teen comedy that's the whole "hammer dropped" dramatic moment, and it actually made me cry in the moment, but I have this doubt in my mind as to whether it's really me or the ghost of TBC influencing me.  The character always had this feel of being a mix of Bender and Allison (antisocial bullsh*t artist testing people's limits, carrying a giant bag full of stuff, etc) so I don't know if my concern for that is just bleeding over into something genuinely good or if what I think is good (actually the best little chunk of something I've written in a while) will be perceived as the derivative attention-seeking pap I suspect it is.

I guess it's just imposter syndrome rearing it's ugly head, combined with the fact I can see the parts that went into this project (Weir Science, Eight Days A Week, Breakfast Club, etc).  Plus it's not even a draft yet, so it IS just parts.  You mind if I send you that little bit?

Well, that concludes my Mini Alley Sheedy marathon, which wasn't planned at all. With WarGames last night and The Breakfast Club tonight, I feel like I need more Sheedy right now. I'm almost tempted to bust out The Dead Zone and watch her guest spot where she reunited with Anthony Michael Hall for one episode. Looking at the date of the original review, I can't believe it's been 3 years since I last watch TBC. What the f*ck! The movie just stilll kicks so much ass.

There isn't anything else I can say that I already haven't said before. But I will say this, the confession scene as a whole is just pure magic in both the written word and how it was edited together. It's a brilliant scene that allows each character to bare their souls in an organic way without it being forced. It flows like wine with peaks and valleys. I don't know how much research you guys have done on TBC, but I can tell you one thing that has stuck with me is that during the confession scene, John Hughes was sitting on the floor behind the camera. Very few people were even allowed to watch that scene live. I got that from an article I read years ago that I still have and he was in tears when the actors (Molly and Anthony) broke down. I need to bust that magazine out and read it again. It was about an 8 page article with a lot of behind the scenes stuff that I haven't scene in print since then.

That's interesting about the confession scene, I never knew that.  Or maybe I did and forgot.  I did know that the quote at the beginning was Molly Ringwald's suggestion.

I'm kicking myself for not outlining the movie last time I saw it, the whole thing is actually divided up in interesting ways, and I should have taken it apart to figure out the structure, but when I thought about it, I was too far in.

Yeah, Hughes flicks on disc kinda suck, very bare-bones and so on... like, the Ferris Bueller Blu-Ray doesn't have the commentary that the DVD has.  I will say that my Netflix HD stream was... perfectly acceptable.  Better than listening to the audio on my iPod or waiting for the show to come on cable, which are my options until it pops up again or I find a disc.


Oh, don't forget that Ally Sheedy is in Kyle XY.  She plays Kyle's real mother, which is kinda perfect casting for that character.

Dude, I've had the same thoughts and conversations within my own head about the pros and cons of the original cut of TBC and an extended 'Director's Cut' and it all comes down to just wanting to have both copies in my personal DVD library. There are a handful of movies that I loved as is and then ended up getting an extended cut. The one that comes to mind is T2. It's great to have both, but I still find myself just alternating between the two which is something I'd end up doing with TBC. I just want to have it even if I know that no amount of new content is ever going to displace the original. As for the Screencaps, I just did a search for 'Deleted Scenes' and instead of clicking on 'Web', I went with 'Images' to see if there were any Behind the Scenes stuff and saw the 3 Images. I originally saw the Anthony Michael Hall image from a video that I will post in just a second...........

Sixteen Candles had something like this too... I think I've heard of this happening with other movies too, I think it might just be because the TV cuts need more time, so they work off a less truncated version of the film. I'm really not sure.