To use a line from The Commitments: "And it's a start. I believe in starts. Once you have it, the rest is inevitable." The first draft definitely lays the groundwork for it. And it was a good thing that Stanley was one to go for the better option =D.The Fanciful Norwegian wrote:You should check out the early draft of the script, written by Kubrick and Peter George before Southern came aboard. I know dialogue can be a lot punchier in the hands of actors than it looks on the page (and Strangelove's dialogue in particular needs Peter Sellers' voice), but geez, it just goes on and on. The Ambassador's explanation of the Doomsday Machine reads like someone presenting a paper at a conference.djproject wrote:Apparently there was a lot more expository dialogue and "bigger picture" scenes about its main topic.
It also reminds me of how my father could imagine the way Kubrick worked where he would "prune" his films and it does help to have more to start and to trim. (This is why I think A.I., admirable as it was, didn't really work as I felt it was Spielberg trying to showcase everything Stanley did whereas he should have picked elements he liked and called it his own.)