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Snow White, Sleeping Beauty,
Cinderella.
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During the last century, the Walt Disney
Company specialized in princesses.
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And in 1990, they added a new one.
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...about a prostitute
from Hollywood Boulevard.
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This is a Disney movie?
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It is, yeah.
Wait a minute! This is a great story.
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Pretty Woman rewrote
the rules of romantic comedy.
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Many times over.
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Other writers were brought on
and were fired.
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And transformed
a young, unknown actress...
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Julia Roberts was a nobody.
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...into a princess.
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She walks out,
and it's like, "Oh, my God!"
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And subsequently,
a global superstar.
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The winner is Julia Roberts.
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Watching her star explode,
something really special.
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But the creation
of this rom-com classic was no fairy tale.
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You ****ers!
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This'll be straight to video.
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And it would take
a handsome hunk...
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...who was really, really good-looking...
Actually not that one,
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this one.
Hey!
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Or at least the guy
who created this one.
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I could not believe
that this was going to be
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a Garry Marshall comedy.
...to give Pretty Woman...
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Hello.
Yes, hello, a wake-up call.
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And I see him sleeping.
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Well, however they did it, this
shambolic tale changed Disney's fortunes...
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You'd see box office numbers going up.
...changed fashion...
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Brown and white polka dot dress
is copied today!
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...and with some kind of magic...
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People who'd invested in the film
were getting these disjointed dailies.
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...they created
the highest-grossing romantic comedy...
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The movie played for like a year!
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...of all time.
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Which was cause for great joy.
Ahh...
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It was pretty successful.
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It was pretty unexpected.
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It was...
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"Pretty Woman"? That's what we're gonna
call this movie? Okay, we're dead.
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These are
The Movies That Made Us.
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The humble Post-it note,
used as bookmarks, doodle pads,
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to write down important messages
and not-so-important messages.
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But one day in the late '80s,
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a pad of these three-inch,
canary yellow sheets of square paper
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changed cinematic history
by playing a key role
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in one of the greatest romantic comedies
of all time.
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But first it's worth noting
just where our story really starts.
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Well, Hollywood, of course,
but less Hollywood studios
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and more the grimy streets
of 1980s Hollywood Boulevard,
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where a wealthy, recently single
business man picks up a...
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well, a professional of the street.
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Can you give me directions?
Sure.
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One thing leads to another.
Here we go.
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Directions turn to a question.
I assume cash is accepted?
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Then a polite request.
Spend the week with me.
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And for the 1990s price of...
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3000.
She spends the week shopping...
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I got a dress.
...and living the high life.
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Slippery little suckers.
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But as they get to the end
of that week...
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It must be difficult to let go
of something so beautiful.
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Prince Charming rescues
his princess from the Hollywood streets.
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She rescues him right back.
She does.
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And Edward and Vivian
live happily ever after.
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That's not what happened
in the original script.
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And this guy would know
because he wrote it.
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Hi. I'm J.F. Lawton.
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And J.F.'s fairy tale starts
like any other.
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I grew up thinking about Hollywood.
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Where the biggest dreams
can come true.
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I did Under Siege for Warner Brothers.
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You're in the navy. Remember?
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Surely the best
of the Steven Seagal canon.
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I directed a movie called Cannibal Women
in the Avocado Jungle of Death.
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Yeah. That one,
that one wasn't quite as popular.
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But then there was this one.
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And I was the writer of Pretty Woman.
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But before J.F. enjoyed
this swanky Hollywood life,
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he was enjoying this Hollywood life.
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I was living off of Hollywood Boulevard
in a neighborhood
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with a lot of hookers, drug dealers.
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A Hollywood walk of shame,
littered with broken dreams and danger...
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I liked it.
...that J.F. liked a lot.
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I love the feel of Hollywood.
I love the whole, um...
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Regional charm?
Yeah. Absolutely.
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I would hang out at a doughnut shop
on Hollywood Boulevard,
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and I would see the girls
walking up and down the street.
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And I got to know some of them.
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And they're not any different
than somebody who does some other job,
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you know, and most of them loved to talk.
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People weren't
that interested in their stories.
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But J.F. was.
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These late-night conversations
over coffee and doughnuts
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charged the creative batteries
of this young, aspiring writer.
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I wrote script after script after script.
That nobody bought.
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Instead, this hungry young writer
survived on a steady diet of apples.
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Apple Macs, to be specific.
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I was doing freelance work,
teaching other writers
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how to use the Macintosh
to write screenplays.
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And one of those writers recommended me
to Gary Goldstein,
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who was a manager of writers.
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And thus began a romance
of sorts.
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I asked him for a romance
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with very distinctive, strong male
and female lead roles.
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Luckily, J.F. already had
an idea percolating in his mind,
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stemming from a late-night doughnut shop
conversation
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with one of his working girl friends.
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This one woman told me about this story
about how a rich guy took her to Vegas,
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spent all sorts of money, put her
in a suite, then a week later, he left.
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And upon hearing
this really interesting story,
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J.F. immediately thought...
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"Wow, that's a really interesting story."
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...or at least,
the beginning of one.
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At that time, that was the beginning
of corporate raiding.
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And Wall Street had just come out.
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Why do you need to wreck this company?
Because it's wreck-able, all right?
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There was a lot of talk about corporate
raiding destroying the Rust Belt,
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and there was industrial decay.
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This was steel town, USA.
It's gonna be ghost town, USA.
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A lot of the girls on Hollywood Boulevard
had come from broken families out there.
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I thought, "What if you took somebody
who was a corporate raider
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who was destroying the Rust Belt,
and then they encountered somebody
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that was the result
of what they were doing?"
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That became the impetus for...
Pretty...
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Three Thousand.
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Wait. Pretty Thousand? What?
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My father said that movies
with the word "three" in them are lucky.
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Like Three Coins in the Fountain...
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...and Three Amigos.
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And so it's the word "Three"
and the word "Thousand."
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Yes, but 3000 what exactly?
The film was about money.
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But what about Gary Goldstein?
Was he buying it?
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At that point in my career,
it was by far the best script I'd read.
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I believed in it 100 percent.
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And so, Gary put
his Three Thousand where his mouth was.
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I gave it to a lot of people
in the industry.
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Then...
The phone started ringing.
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Then it rang some more.
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Sorry, my phone just...
I took at least a dozen meetings
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with companies, all of whom
were interested in optioning the project.
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But the choice was obvious.
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We decided on Vestron.
Okay.
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Founded in 1986,
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independent studio Vestron Pictures
was a fresh name in Hollywood,
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based in Stamford, Connecticut.
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You know, I think that as a new film
company, we were getting studio rejects.
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One of those scripts
was this one.
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I carried a watermelon.
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Which worked out pretty well.
And another one...
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Was Three Thousand, but it was, like...
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It was a much darker, darker version
of the story.
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Exactly.
Right up Vestron's alley.
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I felt that's what we needed
for Three Thousand.
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And now with Vestron attached,
attention turned to casting the lead role
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of Vivian the call girl, lining up dozens
of women to read for the part.
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Gary said,
"I know the actress to play this."
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Oh?
I was invited
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by the producers of Mystic Pizza
to a friends-and-family screening.
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Where Gary would lay eyes
upon an up-and-coming ingenue
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named Julia Roberts. But you knew that.
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There was something ineffably charming
about her. That irresistible laugh.
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And there in that dark theater,
that's when it hit Gary.
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"That's Vivian."
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Immediately, an eager Gary
rushed to share his discovery with J.F.,
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who, overcome by this exciting revelation,
asked...
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Who's Julia Roberts?
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...which was a fair question,
really, because at that point,
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she certainly wasn't rich and famous
global superstar Julia Roberts.
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Twenty million dollars isn't.
Exactly.
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So when asked to be the lead
in a new film, she said...
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Sure.
Good.
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But they wouldn't find the male lead role,
Edward, in a pizzeria,
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even if he is a little bit of a deep dish.
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My dream lead actor for this movie
was Richard Gere from day one.
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You wanna be with me?
Absolutely.
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Who wouldn't? This critically-acclaimed
sex symbol broke hearts...
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Who was really, really good-looking.
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I have a little crush on him.
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...and broke noses.
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In such films as American Gigolo
and An Officer and a Gentleman.
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I got nowhere else to go!
But still...
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At this point in his career, Richard Gere
had been engaged in quite a few flops.
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It's not your fault. It's...
I don't wanna hear about it, Terry.
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So when presented
with this juicy dark drama...
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Richard passed on it.
Get out of here!
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Right. I wasn't expecting that
'cause he's definitely in it.
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Richard looked at this,
"There's not much for me to do."
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"There's no lead actress."
What about Julia Roberts?
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She was an unknown and they had not met.
In his mind, there's no big-name actress.
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No!
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And after months of everything
falling into place almost too easily...
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I just want out.
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...Three Thousand had hit
its first, and only, real snag.
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And then Vestron went bankrupt.
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Okay, so that's another snag.
That's two snags.
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Now, the company bankrolling
your passion project is about to go under.
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And if the script goes with it,
it will be forever lost in court.
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Luckily, the soon-to-be
ex-executive at Vestron, Steve Reuther,
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knew exactly what to do.
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He said, "I'm losing my job.
I'm going somewhere else."
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"I would like to take this project with."
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I said, "Great. Where you going?"
He said New Regency.
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Like Vestron, New Regency was
a mid-level independent studio.
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But this wasn't just
any production company. This was...
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The company
with Arnon Milchan at the helm.
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...an Israeli billionaire,
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Arnon Milchan wasn't just
any Hollywood power player.
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He had come from a different business.
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Selling arms in the Middle East.
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And with Three Thousand
locked and loaded at New Regency,
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things were looking up once again, but...
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The same was true
at New Regency as it was at Vestron.
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It takes a while
for any independent company
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to put together the assets
and the elements that are needed
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to go into pre-production on a movie.
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And time is passing by,
and I'm getting frustrated.
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And so Gary began shopping
J.F. around town for other projects
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with Three Thousand as a calling card.
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So I'd call up certain people and say,
"Look, this is a writing sample."
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"It's not available.
You cannot have it. It's taken."
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"I'll come in in a week with my client,
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and we'll pitch you a couple of stories
that are really exciting."
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One potential audience
to this excitement was Donald De Line,
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Senior VP at Disney-owned
Touchstone Pictures.
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Donald read it.
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And literally it was no more than say
four days later, when the phone rang.
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On the phone, I hear...
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"We wanna buy this script."
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And I suggested they'd read
maybe the wrong script
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because you're Disney and I sent you
a script about a prostitute.
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And he said, "No. It's that script."
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This was a big piece of news.
So Jonathan, I told immediately.
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To which he replied...
"Okay, that's fine."
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I didn't know much
about Touchstone Pictures.
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Well, let's fill you in.
Touchstone was born from a pickle
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that Walt Disney Pictures had found
itself in a decade earlier.
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They had the most famous
animated movies in the world,
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but their live-action production
was basically nothing.
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So the Disney brass decided...
Let's add an adult division.
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An adult division interested
in J.F.'s very adult screenplay.
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Okay.
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And as for New Regency, they
did hold the option on the screenplay.
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And that option had not run its course.
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So they're along for the ride.
But it's still good news.
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This is a major studio.
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A major studio
with a major conference room
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that Gary, J.F., and the New Regency brass
soon marched into,
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the fate of Three Thousand in the balance.
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There are probably at least two dozen
human beings in this space.
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I've never seen such a thing.
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From Jeffrey Katzenberg,
the head of the studio,
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to David Hoberman, the president,
to Donald DeLine, the senior VP,
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but then there was Garry Marshall.
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Garry Marshall being in that meeting
was cause for confusion.
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He wasn't known
for tackling a serious drama.
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Most certainly not.
Garry Marshall was known as a comedy guy.
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The guy who created this.
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Happy Days was written
about friends in his neighborhood.
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Hey!
Happy days were just starting.
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After Happy Days was such a big hit,
they made Laverne and Shirley
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and Mork and Mindy.
Nanu nanu.
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Soon, Garry had three
top-rated shows under his belt,
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and they were all...
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...on at the same time.
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What to watch?
Holy crap.
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After climbing to the top
of television...
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He really made the big move
to directing movies.
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Have a drink on me. I was a big hit!
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While Beaches wasn't
a huge blockbuster hit,
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Garry Marshall had a good working
relationship with Touchstone.
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Disney wanted to keep Garry in the fold.
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And just like that,
the man who brought us this...
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...was on track
to direct a film about...
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Well, it's... it's about, um...
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...a prostitute from Hollywood Boulevard.
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I could not believe that this was going
to be a Garry Marshall comedy.
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But that's the thing.
Three Thousand wasn't really a comedy.
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Yet.
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Now back to that meeting where,
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with Garry Marshall ready to bring
his patented heart and humor to the table,
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the Touchstone bosses laid out
their vision for J.F.'s script.
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David, the president of the studio,
asked the following question,
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"On the Disney lightness scale,
this film is a four,
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and we would like to make it a seven.
Is that possible? Can you do that?"
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And I looked at Jonathan,
and he was staring back at me.
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With the future of his
and Gary's careers literally on the table,
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J.F. was being asked to compromise
his creative vision. If he refused...
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"Okay, well, I can do whatever you want.
You know, that's great."
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Okay, that was easy.
The room broke out and it was party time.
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And I remember Jonathan asking,
"What just happened?"
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And I said, "Bottom line,
you just made your first big studio deal."
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But there was little time
for celebration.
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The Touchstone deal was different
than their previous ones.
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They weren't in the option business.
They were in the green-light business.
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They'd made up their mind. This was a film
they were producing, starting now.
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First item of business,
J.F. would need to meet his new director
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to discuss the next draft of the script.
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So I go to Garry's office, and I sit down,
and he says, "They're gonna fire you."
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"They're gonna fire me? I just met 'em."
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"Why are they gonna fire me?
I haven't done anything yet."
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A writer himself,
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Garry was sympathetic
to the young J.F.'s plight.
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He's like, "That's studios for you.
That's the way they do business here."
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I'm like, "Why are they even talking to me
if they plan to fire me?"
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And he said, "I talked 'em into it.
'Give him a shot. Let him do some stuff.'"
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What a passionate defense.
We talked about what to do with it.
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But before we talk about that,
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we should probably talk about what
this original draft actually was.
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And it wasn't pretty.
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When you talk about the original script,
the basic structure of it is the same.
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It takes place in seven days.
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He wants company to the opera,
shopping, fine hotel.
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Impressed?
The biggest change was tone.
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Things like Kit was sick, and you weren't
sure if she was gonna make it.
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Oh, no.
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My character did crack.
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And then also Vivian did drugs.
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I do not want any drugs here.
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And even though...
The story was darker.
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It wasn't that far off.
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But when it came to the ending
of Three Thousand,
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it was pretty far
from a fairy-tale ending.
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The ending, of course, was not
a Garry Marshall ending.
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And I said, "Garry, crack isn't funny."
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I can't believe you bought drugs
with our rent? What is going on, Kit?
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Well, what did happen
in the end?
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There are so many urban myths
about the end.
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About a hooker, you know,
OD'ing on cocaine.
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No, it wasn't that.
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At the end of the movie, she goes
back into to the street with tuberculosis.
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It absolutely,
definitely wasn't that.
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But as we'll find out later,
it was shockingly un-Disney.
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And so...
Some of the executives suggested
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that she goes off
and runs a daycare center.
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Big mistake.
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Why doesn't she get a job at the hotel?
Wow.
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And she goes to work for Mr. Thompson.
I won't see you in this hotel again.
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So I started to say, "I feel like
there's a momentum going this way."
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So I called Garry up and I said, "Look,
he either has to break her heart
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or he has to fall in love with her."
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But sadly for J.F.,
the breaking up would involve him.
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So I did two drafts for Disney.
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There were specifics
like Edward was, in the original,
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was cheating on his girlfriend.
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I see.
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So I said, "We can't have that.
That's just completely unlikable."
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My ex-wife...
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The response from the studio was,
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"You lightened it too much.
You went too far."
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And so J.F. was fired, sort of.
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Other writers were brought on.
Then they were fired.
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Then other writers were brought on.
They were fired...
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As the Disney lightness scale
wobbled...
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Rewritten and rethought, rejiggered.
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...doubts
about the film's star emerged.
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Julia apparently came with the script,
but Disney wasn't sure.
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The pressure of a name.
Disney considered bigger ones.
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Laura Dern had come in. Demi Moore.
Marisa Tomei, Annabella Sciorra.
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Lorraine Bracco.
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Michelle Pfeiffer.
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Diane Lane, Valeria Golino.
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Patricia Arquette came in.
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There were all these women
that had bigger credits than Julia.
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But they dilly-dallied so long,
so did someone else.
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An agent friend called
and says, "I'm so excited."
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"My client just got the lead
in a film opposite Julia Roberts,
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and it starts next week."
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I said, "Okay. That's great, congrats."
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And I hung up and called the Disney exec.
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"Julia took another movie."
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After a little profanity,
screaming, he hung up.
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"Get me so-and-so on the phone!"
And they made a deal that night.
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So that's how we got Julia.
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00:19:15,696 --> 00:19:19,158
And as for their male lead,
they'd need to get their act into gear.
377
00:19:19,241 --> 00:19:22,703
First is here somewhere.
Maybe Richard Gere in to act.
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But first...
The studio read everybody.
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Yes, everybody.
John Travolta.
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Denzel Washington,
Daniel Day-Lewis.
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Liam Neeson, Sting.
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Christopher Reeve,
Christopher Lambert.
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Sam Neill.
Charles Grodin.
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Oh, Michael Douglas.
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Al Pacino.
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Say hello to my little friend!
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Al Pacino actually did
a reading with Julia Roberts.
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And he said, "Oh, she's wonderful!"
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"Oh, the script's great.
It's gonna be a big hit."
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00:19:51,148 --> 00:19:53,628
He said, "So, you gonna do it?"
He said, "No, it's not for me."
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But Pacino had his reasons
for not diving into the role.
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It was not a flattering role.
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Especially in the first draft
of the script.
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He was selfish,
and he was manipulative.
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Which was what Richard Gere
didn't like about it.
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00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:12,169
But as the script was evolving,
Richard's opinion of the film would too.
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I was rejected by Richard Gere.
As far as I was concerned, he was Edward.
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I already had it fixed in my mind.
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00:20:18,050 --> 00:20:20,886
But the project had something
now that it didn't before.
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The Disney brand.
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00:20:22,095 --> 00:20:24,473
My hope was this was a Godfather moment.
Where they would...
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Make him an offer he can't refuse.
And that's what they did.
403
00:20:27,309 --> 00:20:30,520
We're gonna be spending
an obscene amount of money in here.
404
00:20:30,604 --> 00:20:35,359
And so Garry Marshall flew out
to New York with a secret weapon in tow.
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00:20:35,442 --> 00:20:37,736
Garry and Julia went to Richard's office.
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As soon as Garry saw them together,
he knew that he had found his Edward.
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00:20:42,407 --> 00:20:45,118
And he absented himself
and left them alone.
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00:20:45,202 --> 00:20:49,456
Which is how Richard Gere
remembered it 25 years later, adding...
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00:20:49,539 --> 00:20:52,376
To be honest, I was still, I didn't know
if I was doing this movie yet.
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00:20:52,459 --> 00:20:56,213
And then Garry called up to see
how the meeting was going.
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00:20:56,296 --> 00:20:59,132
Richard put him on speaker,
and Garry said,
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"So, what do you think?
Are you gonna do the movie?"
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And as Richard continued
to recall...
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00:21:03,762 --> 00:21:06,515
And she's across the desk
and takes a piece of paper,
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and she's writing something on it.
A Post-it.
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You remember more than I do.
I do...
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00:21:11,019 --> 00:21:15,023
She turns it around and she pushes it
to me, and it said, "Please say yes."
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I remember that.
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00:21:16,900 --> 00:21:19,611
It was so sweet. And I just said, "Yes."
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00:21:19,695 --> 00:21:24,491
And with this simple scribble,
cinema history was changed forever.
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This is fate, Edward. That's what this is.
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With Vivian and Edward locked,
casting the rest of the film was underway.
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00:21:31,373 --> 00:21:35,419
I pitched it differently every day
on the phone. "Garry Marshall movie."
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"What's it about?"
We got a hooker, a hotel.
425
00:21:37,796 --> 00:21:39,172
"What are they coming in for?"
426
00:21:39,256 --> 00:21:41,508
Don't know,
but just come have fun with Garry!
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00:21:41,591 --> 00:21:45,929
And one unknown young actor...
I was kind of a musical comedy guy.
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00:21:46,013 --> 00:21:49,141
...did just that.
And I went in, read a scene with him,
429
00:21:49,224 --> 00:21:51,393
had a lovely time,
and at the end of it, he said,
430
00:21:51,476 --> 00:21:55,564
"It's good. You're good. It could be you."
431
00:21:55,647 --> 00:21:57,941
"You could be it. It's good."
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00:21:58,692 --> 00:22:02,904
And I left thinking, "Well, it must
be good, and I could be it."
433
00:22:02,988 --> 00:22:07,200
Uh, only to find out shortly afterwards,
he was not going to cast me.
434
00:22:07,284 --> 00:22:09,828
I was not the person
he wanted for the role.
435
00:22:09,911 --> 00:22:10,829
What?
436
00:22:10,912 --> 00:22:13,290
But there were plenty
he wanted for other roles.
437
00:22:13,373 --> 00:22:15,959
Hector Elizondo is
Garry Marshall's good luck charm.
438
00:22:16,043 --> 00:22:19,087
We're doing a script
called Three Thousand for Disney.
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00:22:19,171 --> 00:22:22,883
After reading it, Hector said...
This is a Disney movie?
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00:22:22,966 --> 00:22:26,178
You had Ralph Bellamy
who was around forever.
441
00:22:26,261 --> 00:22:28,055
When Laura San Giacomo came in,
442
00:22:28,138 --> 00:22:29,973
she just like...
443
00:22:30,057 --> 00:22:33,143
Blew everybody out of the water.
I was really up for it.
444
00:22:33,226 --> 00:22:37,105
Fifty bucks, Grandpa.
For 75, the wife can watch.
445
00:22:37,189 --> 00:22:42,903
Obviously, the script was in, uh,
a bit of transition at that time.
446
00:22:42,986 --> 00:22:45,947
As was the ending,
because rumor has it that...
447
00:22:46,031 --> 00:22:47,074
Oh, no.
448
00:22:47,157 --> 00:22:51,119
Kit doesn't die in the original script.
All right. We'll see.
449
00:22:51,203 --> 00:22:54,039
But there was one character
they were still stuck on.
450
00:22:54,122 --> 00:22:55,290
Stuckey.
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00:22:55,374 --> 00:22:58,919
He was the character you love to hate,
the smarmy lawyer.
452
00:22:59,002 --> 00:23:00,295
You are...
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00:23:00,379 --> 00:23:05,634
I am considerably shorter than Richard
Gere, and I think Garry's words were...
454
00:23:06,301 --> 00:23:08,804
"It'll look like he's beating up a dwarf."
455
00:23:08,887 --> 00:23:09,805
Broke my nose.
456
00:23:09,888 --> 00:23:13,725
And since Disney was involved,
they're very protective of dwarfs.
457
00:23:13,809 --> 00:23:14,935
But even still...
458
00:23:15,018 --> 00:23:19,272
My agent kept saying to Garry,
"What about Jason? What about Jason?"
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00:23:19,356 --> 00:23:20,399
And he said to her...
460
00:23:20,482 --> 00:23:21,817
Oh, God. What?
461
00:23:21,900 --> 00:23:24,653
"If you say the name again,
I'm gonna fire you."
462
00:23:24,736 --> 00:23:25,821
Get out of here!
463
00:23:25,904 --> 00:23:28,156
That's how adamant he was
that I was not the right guy.
464
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:29,074
Get out!
465
00:23:29,157 --> 00:23:32,786
But when the cameras rolled
on July 24, 1989...
466
00:23:32,869 --> 00:23:34,329
We had 57 days to shoot it.
467
00:23:34,413 --> 00:23:38,625
Think we had maybe six people
cast out of 119.
468
00:23:38,708 --> 00:23:42,254
The clock was ticking.
The movie had actually started shooting.
469
00:23:42,337 --> 00:23:45,590
You have to keep on top of things.
Garry's like, "We'll just cast as we go."
470
00:23:45,674 --> 00:23:49,886
And despite it being her one
and only job, Garry told Dori...
471
00:23:49,970 --> 00:23:53,515
"Don't worry about it." You know, so, um...
So she really did.
472
00:23:53,598 --> 00:23:56,101
He had it in his head
what was gonna happen.
473
00:23:56,184 --> 00:24:00,105
It's okay. It's not like
they were making it all up as they went.
474
00:24:00,188 --> 00:24:02,107
When we started production,
we had a script.
475
00:24:02,190 --> 00:24:03,733
Technically, many scripts.
476
00:24:03,817 --> 00:24:06,017
Other writers were brought on.
They were fired...
477
00:24:06,069 --> 00:24:07,863
Yeah, that was still happening.
478
00:24:07,946 --> 00:24:09,626
What the hell is wrong with you this week?
479
00:24:09,656 --> 00:24:13,034
It seemed like Garry Marshall
was maybe out of his depth.
480
00:24:13,118 --> 00:24:16,538
Gary would send me drafts sometimes,
and I'd say, "Garry, I..."
481
00:24:16,621 --> 00:24:18,874
"You don't have to run these past me."
482
00:24:18,957 --> 00:24:21,543
Very quickly on set,
something became clear.
483
00:24:21,626 --> 00:24:23,336
The script was more of a guide.
484
00:24:23,420 --> 00:24:25,338
Well, some might say
a shambles.
485
00:24:25,422 --> 00:24:28,925
His style was definitely
to write on the set.
486
00:24:29,009 --> 00:24:30,945
Which might've been cool
for The Fonz...
487
00:24:30,969 --> 00:24:33,054
Hey!
Then again, what's not cool for The Fonz?
488
00:24:33,138 --> 00:24:35,348
But for making movies, maybe not so cool.
489
00:24:35,432 --> 00:24:40,604
People did not understand that
that was not, um, advanced filmmaking.
490
00:24:40,687 --> 00:24:44,649
A kind of fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants gal,
you know, moment to moment.
491
00:24:44,733 --> 00:24:47,903
A moment that would finally
come for Jason Alexander.
492
00:24:47,986 --> 00:24:50,030
They had to shoot,
and they didn't have a Stuckey.
493
00:24:50,113 --> 00:24:51,883
...with some help
from Richard Gere.
494
00:24:51,907 --> 00:24:52,824
I wanna help you.
495
00:24:52,908 --> 00:24:55,744
And once again,
some square yellow paper.
496
00:24:55,827 --> 00:24:57,287
Oh no, not so much that kind.
497
00:24:57,370 --> 00:24:58,497
Yeah, this kind.
498
00:24:58,580 --> 00:25:02,125
I met with my agent and Richard.
She had a video camera.
499
00:25:02,209 --> 00:25:05,420
And Richard and I put
a short scene on tape,
500
00:25:05,504 --> 00:25:09,633
but they put phone books down,
and I stood on the phone books
501
00:25:09,716 --> 00:25:15,138
to sort of make me approximately
a little more acceptable
502
00:25:15,222 --> 00:25:16,556
in height to Richard.
503
00:25:17,432 --> 00:25:20,435
Richard and my agent sort of marched
into Garry's office
504
00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:22,187
and went, "This is the guy."
505
00:25:22,270 --> 00:25:23,897
So thanks to Richard Gere,
506
00:25:23,980 --> 00:25:26,775
the young and inexperienced
Jason Alexander
507
00:25:26,858 --> 00:25:28,777
sheepishly marched onto set.
508
00:25:28,860 --> 00:25:32,155
For a director that I know
isn't thrilled to have me there,
509
00:25:33,031 --> 00:25:35,242
and Richard and I start to rehearse,
510
00:25:35,325 --> 00:25:40,497
he says to me, "Get ready.
I don't know what movie we're making."
511
00:25:40,580 --> 00:25:43,500
And I went, "W-w-what do you mean?"
512
00:25:43,583 --> 00:25:45,335
And he said, "Oh, you'll see."
513
00:25:45,418 --> 00:25:49,130
They do three takes. The dark take.
"Do it like, angry."
514
00:25:49,214 --> 00:25:50,966
Yeah, call the cops. That's great.
515
00:25:51,049 --> 00:25:55,053
Then they'd do a comedy take.
"Now do it, like, funnier."
516
00:25:57,347 --> 00:26:01,768
Then a, "Whatever you wanna try."
"Say something about his shoes."
517
00:26:02,811 --> 00:26:07,315
Wait, wait. Don't you wanna do
the actual lines from the scene?
518
00:26:07,399 --> 00:26:10,026
And he went, "Shoes are good."
519
00:26:10,110 --> 00:26:13,863
Richard turns to me and goes,
"That's what I'm talking about."
520
00:26:15,115 --> 00:26:19,452
But Garry's indecisive
creative process was a daily struggle.
521
00:26:19,536 --> 00:26:22,998
And how on a daily basis, he's rewriting.
522
00:26:23,081 --> 00:26:26,293
Even as we're shooting,
he's rewriting stuff.
523
00:26:26,376 --> 00:26:30,213
I wouldn't say there wasn't a moment
where everything's thrown out the window.
524
00:26:30,297 --> 00:26:35,135
It was just Garry saying, "Do something
different" or "Find something funnier."
525
00:26:35,218 --> 00:26:38,972
Ma?!
He'd work with actors privately
526
00:26:39,055 --> 00:26:41,683
and give them such leeway.
527
00:26:41,766 --> 00:26:43,435
"Hector, do a thing."
528
00:26:43,518 --> 00:26:44,518
Thank you, Mr...
529
00:26:44,561 --> 00:26:46,354
Thompson. I'm the...
Thompson.
530
00:26:46,438 --> 00:26:48,231
Manager... of the hotel, sir.
531
00:26:48,315 --> 00:26:50,817
There's one sort of cardinal direction
that we went in.
532
00:26:50,900 --> 00:26:54,279
More humor. The scene, for example,
where they're off to the opera,
533
00:26:54,362 --> 00:26:59,951
and he closes the jewelry box on her hand,
and she breaks out in gales of laughter.
534
00:27:00,035 --> 00:27:01,786
Oh!
535
00:27:01,870 --> 00:27:04,331
Richard came up with that
without telling Julia.
536
00:27:04,414 --> 00:27:08,835
That was supposed to be for the gag reel,
and it was so authentic and so adorable.
537
00:27:08,918 --> 00:27:12,339
And we kept it in the movie
because it was so perfect.
538
00:27:12,422 --> 00:27:13,882
It was just, like, so real.
539
00:27:13,965 --> 00:27:16,468
That wasn't the only prank.
540
00:27:16,551 --> 00:27:21,473
We left Julia in the bathtub, singing
with her headphones. The whole crew left.
541
00:27:21,556 --> 00:27:23,975
Garry said,
"Go underwater and come back up."
542
00:27:24,059 --> 00:27:27,437
We'd worked it out with Richard,
and she finally popped up,
543
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:28,938
and the set was empty.
544
00:27:29,022 --> 00:27:33,109
Gary believed in doing a lot of gags.
It made the actors feel comfortable.
545
00:27:33,193 --> 00:27:35,195
Everybody left, you!
546
00:27:35,278 --> 00:27:37,614
Once they started laughing
and became at ease,
547
00:27:37,697 --> 00:27:40,533
then they'd give him
the performance that he wanted.
548
00:27:40,617 --> 00:27:42,661
Yes.
549
00:27:42,744 --> 00:27:45,497
A take that should have been two minutes...
550
00:27:45,580 --> 00:27:48,708
What kind of a system is this?
Can you move these cars out of here?
551
00:27:48,792 --> 00:27:52,712
...would be five because there was
always more jokes and more ad-libs.
552
00:27:52,796 --> 00:27:54,297
Love this car.
I love it too.
553
00:27:54,381 --> 00:27:57,967
Look, you don't know where you're going.
You're gonna get lost in the dark!
554
00:27:58,051 --> 00:28:01,304
It was great fun.
But it was complete mayhem.
555
00:28:01,388 --> 00:28:05,183
But sometimes Garry Marshall's
sense of fun was a little, well,
556
00:28:05,266 --> 00:28:06,518
too much fun maybe.
557
00:28:06,601 --> 00:28:09,062
Garry was throwing the little escargot.
558
00:28:09,145 --> 00:28:12,816
I got a call from Steve Reuther.
"Garry's throwing food."
559
00:28:12,899 --> 00:28:14,693
I think there must have been 20 takes.
560
00:28:14,776 --> 00:28:17,195
Doesn't make any sense.
It's not logical.
561
00:28:17,278 --> 00:28:20,240
There was concern
that the show was out of control.
562
00:28:20,323 --> 00:28:22,450
Soon rumors began circulating.
563
00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:27,872
Were Garry Marshall's sitcom sensibilities
causing the film to jump the shark?
564
00:28:27,956 --> 00:28:31,626
I saw the late Laura Ziskin,
one of the producers on the film,
565
00:28:31,710 --> 00:28:34,337
yelling, "Where's the movie?
What are we doing?"
566
00:28:34,421 --> 00:28:35,422
What do you mean?
567
00:28:35,505 --> 00:28:41,219
People who had invested in Three Thousand
were getting these disjointed dailies.
568
00:28:41,302 --> 00:28:44,764
Disney exec Jeffrey Katzenberg
was forced to step in
569
00:28:44,848 --> 00:28:46,224
and find out for himself.
570
00:28:46,307 --> 00:28:50,770
Katzenberg had them edit together
the escargot scene.
571
00:28:50,854 --> 00:28:52,105
And the verdict...
572
00:28:54,524 --> 00:28:56,526
And he said, "It's funny. It's funny."
573
00:29:00,363 --> 00:29:01,948
Slippery little suckers.
574
00:29:02,031 --> 00:29:05,702
But despite appearances,
the story wasn't completely slipping away
575
00:29:05,785 --> 00:29:09,914
from Garry, perhaps in large part thanks
to the writer he trusted most.
576
00:29:09,998 --> 00:29:12,917
My mom was a nurse,
she had nothing to do with Hollywood,
577
00:29:13,001 --> 00:29:15,420
and she thought kissing was too personal.
578
00:29:17,672 --> 00:29:22,010
And she really believed that,
and then that became...
579
00:29:22,093 --> 00:29:23,803
I don't kiss on the mouth.
580
00:29:23,887 --> 00:29:27,766
...sort of the catalyst of how the movie
was gonna turn on them not kissing.
581
00:29:27,849 --> 00:29:30,685
Creating a simple
and compelling story arc.
582
00:29:31,436 --> 00:29:32,896
When they do pucker up,
583
00:29:32,979 --> 00:29:35,857
that's when you know
they're in love, of course.
584
00:29:38,943 --> 00:29:41,780
This is awkward.
Has anyone got the remote?
585
00:29:41,863 --> 00:29:42,989
Thank you for that.
586
00:29:43,072 --> 00:29:46,367
But perhaps the most transformative
and glamorous story arc
587
00:29:46,451 --> 00:29:50,371
of Three Thousand came from Marilyn Vance,
the costume designer.
588
00:29:50,455 --> 00:29:53,792
I want it to be right.
I want it to be believable.
589
00:29:54,375 --> 00:29:56,377
Work it, baby, work it.
590
00:29:56,461 --> 00:29:59,130
Everything had to be made to order.
591
00:29:59,214 --> 00:30:00,423
Women's clothing.
592
00:30:00,507 --> 00:30:06,554
She needs to come up with the concept how
Julia looks when she's on the street
593
00:30:06,638 --> 00:30:11,935
and the progression of how she ends up
looking by the end of the film.
594
00:30:12,018 --> 00:30:14,771
Starting with...
You're gonna go out? Dinner?
595
00:30:14,854 --> 00:30:17,273
Mm-hmm.
You'll need a cocktail dress then.
596
00:30:17,357 --> 00:30:19,984
Marilyn knew what she wanted.
She wanted black lace.
597
00:30:20,068 --> 00:30:23,196
I got a dress.
I'd rather hoped you'd be wearing it.
598
00:30:23,279 --> 00:30:26,449
And it does work a lot
'cause it is the first time you see her
599
00:30:26,533 --> 00:30:31,162
not as a streetwalker,
and the way they played the scene
600
00:30:31,246 --> 00:30:34,165
is Richard comes in,
and he doesn't recognize her.
601
00:30:34,249 --> 00:30:37,126
She has her back to him,
and he's looking for her.
602
00:30:37,210 --> 00:30:43,383
He was adorable. The whole idea was
that was the beginning of the build-up.
603
00:30:43,466 --> 00:30:45,510
You're late.
604
00:30:45,593 --> 00:30:46,803
You're stunning.
605
00:30:47,762 --> 00:30:48,680
You're forgiven.
606
00:30:48,763 --> 00:30:51,599
But if Julia got
escargot slime on that dress,
607
00:30:51,683 --> 00:30:54,143
she probably wouldn't have been forgiven.
608
00:30:54,227 --> 00:30:57,897
I don't think we made multiples
for any of the garments for that show.
609
00:30:57,981 --> 00:31:02,110
I don't think there was
enough fabric to make backups.
610
00:31:02,193 --> 00:31:05,154
What if someone recognizes me?
Not likely. They don't spend
611
00:31:05,238 --> 00:31:07,448
too much time on Hollywood Boulevard.
You did.
612
00:31:07,532 --> 00:31:11,494
Whatever it was, I was looking
for the color that matched her hair.
613
00:31:11,578 --> 00:31:16,499
I went to every fabric shop.
"Do you have... I'm looking for..."
614
00:31:16,583 --> 00:31:18,835
Are you
looking for something in particular?
615
00:31:18,918 --> 00:31:20,545
No. Well, yeah.
616
00:31:20,628 --> 00:31:24,465
I couldn't find anything
in any fabric store. It's my last chance.
617
00:31:24,549 --> 00:31:26,551
I go to Beverly Silks and Woolen.
618
00:31:26,634 --> 00:31:28,303
I don't think we have anything for you.
619
00:31:28,386 --> 00:31:32,974
"I wonder if you'd let me see
some of the things you don't put out."
620
00:31:33,057 --> 00:31:34,475
I begged him, actually.
621
00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:38,730
He let me go down to the basement,
and there was this polka dot
622
00:31:38,813 --> 00:31:41,024
with the auburn. It was beautiful.
623
00:31:41,107 --> 00:31:43,610
But sometimes,
beauty is a rare commodity.
624
00:31:43,693 --> 00:31:45,987
Four yards. That's all he had.
625
00:31:47,030 --> 00:31:48,573
Well done!
626
00:31:48,656 --> 00:31:50,783
Well done!
627
00:31:50,867 --> 00:31:54,078
It left me enough fabric
to put around the hat.
628
00:31:54,162 --> 00:31:55,038
I like this hat.
629
00:31:55,121 --> 00:32:01,085
She looked spectacular, but the whole idea
was building her to that hair-do,
630
00:32:01,169 --> 00:32:04,005
all up for the gown and the necklace.
631
00:32:04,088 --> 00:32:07,467
When she comes out in the red dress...
That red dress!
632
00:32:07,550 --> 00:32:09,677
The red dress became a whole other thing.
633
00:32:09,761 --> 00:32:12,889
To get it made,
it really was a whole other thing.
634
00:32:12,972 --> 00:32:16,017
These guys wanted her in a black gown.
635
00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:19,228
In fact, the studio
actually slipped Marilyn a note.
636
00:32:19,312 --> 00:32:23,024
Oh, no. Not a Post-it note.
No, that was earlier. Just a regular note.
637
00:32:23,107 --> 00:32:26,945
Guys love sexy black.
To which Marilyn replied...
638
00:32:27,028 --> 00:32:31,407
No, no, no, no. It... Yeah. No, no, no,
can't be a black dress. It has to be red.
639
00:32:31,491 --> 00:32:33,534
And soon,
everyone was seeing red.
640
00:32:33,618 --> 00:32:37,121
Julia gets in the dress,
and everybody's breath just escapes.
641
00:32:37,205 --> 00:32:40,291
She walks out,
and it's like, "Oh, my God!"
642
00:32:41,125 --> 00:32:44,879
We all... there was a long shot of us
reacting to how beautiful she looked
643
00:32:44,963 --> 00:32:46,756
and how lovely they looked together.
644
00:32:46,839 --> 00:32:49,842
That's a caterpillar
that's come out of the cocoon,
645
00:32:49,926 --> 00:32:54,514
and this is the butterfly, but yet Julia
plays it so well, her insecurity.
646
00:32:55,098 --> 00:33:00,770
The red dress symbolized the dream
come true. The red dress was a fairy tale.
647
00:33:00,853 --> 00:33:03,248
But like all fairy tales...
It's been a pleasure.
648
00:33:03,272 --> 00:33:05,250
...they end...
Come and visit us again.
649
00:33:05,274 --> 00:33:07,920
...as did principal photography.
At the end of shooting,
650
00:33:07,944 --> 00:33:10,989
we went to our wrap party going,
"This will never see the light of day."
651
00:33:11,072 --> 00:33:14,242
They probably thought that
about this wrap party footage too.
652
00:33:14,325 --> 00:33:18,329
And despite these genuine Three Thousand
crew jackets as a wrap present...
653
00:33:18,413 --> 00:33:21,708
The general feeling,
certainly to Richard and Hector,
654
00:33:21,791 --> 00:33:25,962
was, "Well, this will be
straight to video or something."
655
00:33:26,045 --> 00:33:29,841
It's not gonna be a major release
because nobody was confident
656
00:33:29,924 --> 00:33:31,634
that we had gotten the story.
657
00:33:31,718 --> 00:33:34,804
Well, enter movie editor
Priscilla Nedd-Friendly.
658
00:33:34,887 --> 00:33:36,556
She'd find the story.
Okay.
659
00:33:36,639 --> 00:33:38,867
The Three Thousand
script she'd signed on for...
660
00:33:38,891 --> 00:33:40,852
Kind of a very dark story.
661
00:33:40,935 --> 00:33:43,146
...would be no problem.
I've got a little problem.
662
00:33:43,229 --> 00:33:46,107
Problem-solving is
a great big part of what I do.
663
00:33:46,190 --> 00:33:48,735
That's very lucky
because she had a massive one.
664
00:33:48,818 --> 00:33:52,739
The dailies that I got
did not match the script. At all.
665
00:33:52,822 --> 00:33:57,035
Wading into the multiple
options of every single scene...
666
00:33:57,118 --> 00:34:03,458
Do it, like, angry. Now do it, like,
funnier. Say something about his shoes.
667
00:34:03,541 --> 00:34:05,793
Priscilla and Gary
worked tirelessly.
668
00:34:05,877 --> 00:34:08,504
Do you mind leaving us?
Especially Gary.
669
00:34:08,588 --> 00:34:11,632
We had a screening,
and I looked over at Garry,
670
00:34:11,716 --> 00:34:15,303
and I see him... sleeping!
671
00:34:16,220 --> 00:34:18,848
And I thought,
"Oh, God, that's so awkward."
672
00:34:18,931 --> 00:34:22,685
And the next day, I said to him, you know,
"Garry, I think you missed a little bit."
673
00:34:22,769 --> 00:34:25,229
"I looked over,
and your eyes were closed."
674
00:34:25,313 --> 00:34:27,690
He's like, "Are you kidding?"
675
00:34:28,441 --> 00:34:32,695
"I wasn't sleeping. I was counting
the beats between the jokes, my dear."
676
00:34:32,779 --> 00:34:35,615
"We've gotta get the jokes
closer together."
677
00:34:35,698 --> 00:34:39,285
Clearly, a master of timing,
Garry and Priscilla banged out
678
00:34:39,368 --> 00:34:40,203
the first cut.
679
00:34:40,286 --> 00:34:43,331
And about ten weeks later, he called
a small group of us together
680
00:34:43,414 --> 00:34:46,459
to come to Disney and see
his first cut of the film.
681
00:34:46,542 --> 00:34:48,753
This is a very important week
for me.
682
00:34:48,836 --> 00:34:51,380
With comedy, you have to preview.
683
00:34:51,464 --> 00:34:55,134
I picked her up in Hollywood Boulevard.
And they previewed a lot.
684
00:34:55,218 --> 00:34:58,137
It's what the audience tells you
that is the key.
685
00:34:58,221 --> 00:34:59,305
What's your dream?
686
00:34:59,388 --> 00:35:01,849
And the audience unequivocally told them...
687
00:35:01,933 --> 00:35:02,850
This is great.
688
00:35:02,934 --> 00:35:04,018
Well done!
689
00:35:04,685 --> 00:35:05,603
Well done!
690
00:35:05,686 --> 00:35:07,605
People were in awe,
they couldn't believe it.
691
00:35:07,688 --> 00:35:11,234
I kept sitting there going...
"Were we there for this film?"
692
00:35:11,317 --> 00:35:14,112
"That wasn't in the script. That wasn't.
When did we do that?"
693
00:35:14,195 --> 00:35:16,322
The whole thing all came together.
694
00:35:17,532 --> 00:35:20,368
Now, they knew for sure.
We got something here.
695
00:35:20,451 --> 00:35:23,246
Immediately, any doubt
about how it should end
696
00:35:23,329 --> 00:35:25,331
or what it was just disappeared.
697
00:35:25,414 --> 00:35:31,129
I think that was one of the reasons
why the name change took place.
698
00:35:31,212 --> 00:35:32,972
Hang about. Name change?
Yeah.
699
00:35:33,047 --> 00:35:36,151
Oh come one, what's wrong
with Three Thousand? It's a romantic name.
700
00:35:36,175 --> 00:35:39,720
Three Thousand, either
because it sounds like a sci-fi movie
701
00:35:39,804 --> 00:35:42,181
or because it just
doesn't really tell you much
702
00:35:42,265 --> 00:35:44,767
about the story
you're about to experience.
703
00:35:44,851 --> 00:35:47,311
It's not a big hook to get people
into a theater,
704
00:35:47,395 --> 00:35:49,147
and so, we were in search of a title.
705
00:35:49,230 --> 00:35:52,316
What's your name?
A lot of people didthrow names at it.
706
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,112
What do you want it to be?
But only one name would stick.
707
00:35:56,195 --> 00:36:00,950
Disney's idea was to try to find a song
that would also double as the title.
708
00:36:01,033 --> 00:36:03,661
But as is the case
in situations like this...
709
00:36:03,744 --> 00:36:06,789
It came filtered through
as Jeffrey Katzenberg's idea.
710
00:36:06,873 --> 00:36:08,916
The guy in charge
will take the credit.
711
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,877
He wanted to rename the film Pretty Woman.
712
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,922
"Pretty Woman? Pretty Woman."
That's what we're gonna call this movie?
713
00:36:15,923 --> 00:36:17,633
Okay, we're dead.
714
00:36:18,301 --> 00:36:20,511
Actually, dead right.
715
00:36:20,595 --> 00:36:24,390
Because when Pretty Woman opened
on March 23, 1990...
716
00:36:24,473 --> 00:36:26,976
I remember, we just went around
to different theaters.
717
00:36:27,059 --> 00:36:31,647
And didn't even watch the movie, but we'd
buy tickets and wait to see the crowds.
718
00:36:31,731 --> 00:36:33,399
And judging by those crowds...
719
00:36:33,482 --> 00:36:34,901
The reaction was overwhelming.
720
00:36:34,984 --> 00:36:37,713
...and goodness, the laughter!
So much laughter.
721
00:36:37,737 --> 00:36:39,822
So good, I almost peed my pants.
722
00:36:39,906 --> 00:36:42,176
But Touchstone laughed
all the way to the bank.
723
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,828
That weekend, I'm getting calls saying,
"The box office will be incredible."
724
00:36:45,912 --> 00:36:50,750
For the record, it was,
an over-$11 million opening weekend.
725
00:36:50,833 --> 00:36:52,919
Not bad for a film that cost 14.
726
00:36:53,002 --> 00:36:54,462
Second week, it went up.
727
00:36:54,545 --> 00:36:57,232
That's another 12 million,
and it went one way from there.
728
00:36:57,256 --> 00:37:00,259
Week after week, you'd see
the box office numbers going up.
729
00:37:00,343 --> 00:37:01,719
It just kept going.
730
00:37:01,802 --> 00:37:04,847
So I'd open my New York Times
and go, "We're still here."
731
00:37:04,931 --> 00:37:08,059
"They got an ad in the Friday Times.
We'll run through the weekend."
732
00:37:08,142 --> 00:37:12,813
Four total weeks at number one,
16 consecutive weeks in the top ten.
733
00:37:12,897 --> 00:37:15,775
Before you know it,
we're over $100 million.
734
00:37:15,858 --> 00:37:17,693
It was a huge number.
735
00:37:17,777 --> 00:37:19,570
That kept getting huger.
736
00:37:19,654 --> 00:37:22,031
The movie played for like a year!
737
00:37:22,114 --> 00:37:26,244
Pretty Woman would eventually
rake in over 400 million dollars globally
738
00:37:26,327 --> 00:37:29,872
and become the third
highest-grossing film of 1990.
739
00:37:29,956 --> 00:37:31,040
Holy!
740
00:37:31,123 --> 00:37:31,958
In live-action,
741
00:37:32,041 --> 00:37:35,294
we were the highest-grossing film
ever in Disney's history at that time.
742
00:37:35,378 --> 00:37:40,299
And it still remains to this day
the highest-grossing romantic comedy ever.
743
00:37:44,011 --> 00:37:49,267
But perhaps Pretty Woman's lasting legacy
is Julia Roberts herself.
744
00:37:49,350 --> 00:37:53,020
Watching Julia, watch her star explode.
745
00:37:53,104 --> 00:37:54,689
And the winner is Julia Roberts
746
00:37:54,772 --> 00:37:56,649
for Pretty Woman.
747
00:37:56,732 --> 00:37:59,277
I'd like to thank Garry Marshall
and Richard...
748
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,946
As for Richard Gere...
I like him so much.
749
00:38:02,029 --> 00:38:05,491
...no one knows what became of him.
Joking! He's Richard Gere.
750
00:38:05,574 --> 00:38:06,867
And as for the movie...
751
00:38:06,951 --> 00:38:12,164
It went on into the zeitgeist
of, like, a movie that everyone knows.
752
00:38:12,248 --> 00:38:16,043
You can't find anybody that doesn't
know this movie and love this movie.
753
00:38:16,127 --> 00:38:18,546
People would quote lines like,
"Big mistake."
754
00:38:18,629 --> 00:38:19,880
Big. Huge.
755
00:38:19,964 --> 00:38:21,299
"Cinder-ing-rella."
756
00:38:21,382 --> 00:38:23,175
Or...
Fifty bucks, Grandpa.
757
00:38:23,259 --> 00:38:25,177
"For 75, the wife can watch."
758
00:38:25,261 --> 00:38:28,347
And it wasn't just the dialogue
making an impression.
759
00:38:28,431 --> 00:38:31,684
Turns out that red dress
probably was the right choice.
760
00:38:31,767 --> 00:38:35,938
I started getting calls from girls
all over the country
761
00:38:36,022 --> 00:38:38,983
who wanted to go
to their prom in the red dress.
762
00:38:39,066 --> 00:38:42,820
The brown and white polka dot dress
is copied today!
763
00:38:43,362 --> 00:38:46,615
You see it all the time. I lost track.
764
00:38:46,699 --> 00:38:49,368
Pretty Woman changed everything
for everyone,
765
00:38:49,452 --> 00:38:52,496
not least, the comedy TV sitcom guy...
766
00:38:52,580 --> 00:38:53,414
Hey!
767
00:38:53,497 --> 00:38:58,169
...who coolly transitioned from the Fonz
to mega-blockbuster hit director.
768
00:38:58,252 --> 00:38:59,837
Excluding, of course...
769
00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:00,796
I'm out, baby!
770
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:04,759
...this contribution
to global sitcom television history.
771
00:39:04,842 --> 00:39:09,013
Just worked for Garry Marshall.
Garry wound up being a great fan of mine.
772
00:39:09,096 --> 00:39:13,225
Word went down, "There's this young guy
that we just used in Pretty Woman."
773
00:39:13,309 --> 00:39:16,729
"He might be good. Give him a look."
That's how I got Seinfeld.
774
00:39:16,812 --> 00:39:21,400
From the Fonz to the anti-Fonz,
Garry Marshall could do it all.
775
00:39:21,484 --> 00:39:24,111
He got more offers,
more work, more scripts,
776
00:39:24,195 --> 00:39:28,407
and then Julia did four movies
with my dad. He just kept working.
777
00:39:28,491 --> 00:39:29,575
Thank you very much!
778
00:39:29,658 --> 00:39:32,203
Pretty Woman is
Garry Marshall's thumbprint.
779
00:39:32,286 --> 00:39:33,286
Thank you, Garry.
780
00:39:33,329 --> 00:39:38,959
It is his DNA. It was not supposed
to come out the way it came out,
781
00:39:39,043 --> 00:39:41,504
and it's only the movie that we know
782
00:39:41,587 --> 00:39:43,631
because Garry Marshall
was behind that camera.
783
00:39:45,132 --> 00:39:48,928
Nobody else could've directed
and turned it into what it ended up being
784
00:39:49,762 --> 00:39:51,806
from what it was on the page.
785
00:39:52,723 --> 00:39:55,267
A page that was started
by one writer
786
00:39:55,351 --> 00:39:57,978
and then turned over
and finished by another.
787
00:39:58,062 --> 00:40:01,482
But in the years that followed
the success of Pretty Woman,
788
00:40:01,565 --> 00:40:04,819
Garry thought that J.F.'s story
of Hollywood Boulevard
789
00:40:04,902 --> 00:40:08,614
might also be well-suited to 42nd Street.
790
00:40:08,697 --> 00:40:11,117
Garry came to me ten years
after the film was made
791
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,577
and said, "I want to make it
into a musical."
792
00:40:13,661 --> 00:40:18,040
He absolutely only ever wanted
to write the musical with J.F. Lawton.
793
00:40:19,834 --> 00:40:24,088
But Garry didn't live to see
the curtain come up on Broadway.
794
00:40:24,171 --> 00:40:29,093
I had done a reading of the musical
version of Pretty Woman for Garry.
795
00:40:30,553 --> 00:40:34,473
Even at the reading, I went,
"Oh, yeah, he's... Something's not right."
796
00:40:34,557 --> 00:40:37,768
I could see... Garry always looked so hale.
797
00:40:38,352 --> 00:40:42,940
And, um, a few days later,
I heard that he was in the hospital.
798
00:40:44,191 --> 00:40:48,237
I was with him, basically.
I was with him in the hospital room.
799
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,949
Julia was actually there in the morning,
and then I was there,
800
00:40:52,032 --> 00:40:55,995
and... some other close friends
were there and... and then...
801
00:40:57,329 --> 00:40:59,290
And then, then he was gone.
802
00:41:00,124 --> 00:41:04,837
With the loss of Garry Marshall
on July 19, 2016,
803
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,966
it's J.F. Lawton that now holds
the torch for Pretty Woman.
804
00:41:09,049 --> 00:41:10,676
When we did the musical together,
805
00:41:10,759 --> 00:41:13,179
we really became friends,
we really spent time together.
806
00:41:13,262 --> 00:41:16,015
Hello, how are you? What a thrill, huh?
807
00:41:16,098 --> 00:41:20,561
It was nice to have had the opportunity
to really get to know this person,
808
00:41:20,644 --> 00:41:25,816
who did loom over my life, and we were
bound together by this crazy movie.
809
00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:31,614
My dad knew that J.F. would...
810
00:41:31,697 --> 00:41:35,493
honor his story
and the story that they created.
811
00:41:37,286 --> 00:41:42,458
A story that, for J.F.,
is a window into a life he once lived.
812
00:41:42,541 --> 00:41:47,171
In the 1980s, this was kind of
the red light district of Hollywood.
813
00:41:47,254 --> 00:41:52,551
I lived in an apartment not too far
from here, and I would walk around here,
814
00:41:52,635 --> 00:41:57,223
and I would head toward Winchell's
over there, and that was my daily routine.
815
00:41:57,306 --> 00:42:02,645
Now, crispy pork fills the hole
left by what was once a doughnut shop.
816
00:42:02,728 --> 00:42:06,857
This was one of the only places
open 24 hours, you could get coffee.
817
00:42:06,941 --> 00:42:09,568
And J.F.'s love
for daily doughnuts
818
00:42:09,652 --> 00:42:14,240
led to a movie that changed lives
and even Hollywood Boulevard itself.
819
00:42:14,323 --> 00:42:17,117
In the film,
it's on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
820
00:42:17,201 --> 00:42:20,913
We work the Ritz Brothers, Fred Astaire,
all the way to Ella Fitzgerald.
821
00:42:20,996 --> 00:42:24,208
There wasn't a lot of streetwalkers
on the Walk of Fame
822
00:42:24,291 --> 00:42:25,709
at least until the film came out.
823
00:42:25,793 --> 00:42:30,172
But around the corner where
J.F. lived, it was a different story.
824
00:42:30,256 --> 00:42:32,216
A story that began here.
825
00:42:32,299 --> 00:42:35,344
That's where, in my head,
826
00:42:35,427 --> 00:42:38,430
Edward had really picked
Vivian up in the original script.
827
00:42:38,514 --> 00:42:40,599
The original dark
and gritty script
828
00:42:40,683 --> 00:42:43,852
with an ending that, obviously,
Disney could never make.
829
00:42:43,936 --> 00:42:45,896
It was, like, in a street like this.
830
00:42:45,980 --> 00:42:49,608
But what was it
about this ending that was so dark?
831
00:42:49,692 --> 00:42:50,943
Don't say it was Kit.
832
00:42:51,026 --> 00:42:52,570
She doesn't find Kit dead.
833
00:42:52,653 --> 00:42:54,863
Definitely no.
What, then? Overdose?
834
00:42:54,947 --> 00:42:57,241
Nobody overdoses of drugs, nobody...
835
00:42:57,324 --> 00:43:00,119
Okay, we could do this all day.
What happened?
836
00:43:00,202 --> 00:43:03,664
Edward drives her back to the same place,
to where he picked her up,
837
00:43:03,747 --> 00:43:06,166
and they get into a fight in the car.
838
00:43:06,250 --> 00:43:10,087
And Vivian is very upset.
She's emotional. She starts crying.
839
00:43:10,170 --> 00:43:13,382
He doesn't like that she's crying.
He doesn't know why she's crying.
840
00:43:13,465 --> 00:43:16,802
He pulls her out of the car,
onto the sidewalk.
841
00:43:16,885 --> 00:43:22,016
Sometimes you don't realize at the moment
how important something is for you.
842
00:43:22,099 --> 00:43:24,476
I mean, I was just working hard.
843
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:29,231
And I was trying to figure out the movie,
and I was trying to impress Garry.
844
00:43:29,315 --> 00:43:32,901
I wanted Garry to know that he had
the right man for the job.
845
00:43:33,694 --> 00:43:35,904
And then he says,
"Here's the money."
846
00:43:35,988 --> 00:43:39,700
He gives her the $3,000 in an envelope.
"Here's the money. Take it."
847
00:43:39,783 --> 00:43:42,536
She won't take it. She said,
"I don't want your money."
848
00:43:42,620 --> 00:43:46,498
I'm so glad I was part of something
that could make so many people happy.
849
00:43:47,875 --> 00:43:51,837
In some cases and instances,
people have told me it changed their life.
850
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,756
I didn't want to know the details.
851
00:43:54,757 --> 00:43:58,969
And he's like, "Take it. You'll regret it
the second I drive off. Take the money."
852
00:43:59,053 --> 00:44:00,429
She will not take it.
853
00:44:01,013 --> 00:44:05,601
What a joyful thing it is
to be a part of something
854
00:44:05,684 --> 00:44:09,313
that hits people the way
this movie did and does.
855
00:44:11,607 --> 00:44:13,776
He sets the money
down on the curb.
856
00:44:13,859 --> 00:44:15,944
He just gets in the car and drives off.
857
00:44:16,028 --> 00:44:17,780
She throws the money,
858
00:44:17,863 --> 00:44:20,658
then she sees homeless people
are seeing all this money and cash
859
00:44:20,741 --> 00:44:22,501
and she starts picking it up
from the gutter.
860
00:44:22,576 --> 00:44:26,872
And then, the real reason
Disney probably didn't like the ending,
861
00:44:26,955 --> 00:44:29,583
well, it involves... them.
862
00:44:29,667 --> 00:44:31,794
Because with that 3,000 dollars...
863
00:44:31,877 --> 00:44:34,254
She promised Kit
she'd take her to Disneyland.
864
00:44:34,963 --> 00:44:36,423
And so, then Kit says,
865
00:44:37,007 --> 00:44:40,469
"Hey, can I get one of those balloons
with the ears?"
866
00:44:40,552 --> 00:44:43,764
And, uh, Vivian doesn't say anything.
867
00:44:43,847 --> 00:44:46,684
Kit says, "Oh, that's silly.
Those are for kids."
868
00:44:46,767 --> 00:44:50,479
And then Vivian looks over and says,
"No, babe. You can have a balloon."
869
00:44:50,562 --> 00:44:51,855
"One with the ears."
870
00:44:51,939 --> 00:44:57,194
And then Vivian looks off,
and the bus is going on and, uh,
871
00:44:57,277 --> 00:44:59,321
I'm tearing up thinking about it.
872
00:44:59,405 --> 00:45:03,617
You know, 'cause it brings back
the memories of writing it
873
00:45:03,701 --> 00:45:08,372
and... and, uh, what I was going through,
what I was feeling at the time.
874
00:45:09,039 --> 00:45:11,500
So despite it
being a Disney movie,
875
00:45:11,583 --> 00:45:15,879
it was J.F.'s original script
that had the true Disney ending.
876
00:45:15,963 --> 00:45:19,883
But I think that's good marketing.
It's like, "Hey, we got 3,000 dollars."
877
00:45:19,967 --> 00:45:21,510
"Let's go to Disneyland."
878
00:45:21,593 --> 00:45:25,597
But maybe, in some ways,
they all went to Disneyland.
879
00:45:25,681 --> 00:45:30,269
It is kind of this ideal Touchstone movie.
880
00:45:30,352 --> 00:45:32,896
And weirdly enough,
it is a perfect Disney movie.
881
00:45:32,980 --> 00:45:36,024
For everyone who was involved
with Pretty Woman...
882
00:45:36,108 --> 00:45:37,609
I was pretty lucky.
883
00:45:37,693 --> 00:45:39,945
...it was fairy-tale endings all around.
884
00:45:40,028 --> 00:45:41,655
I... I think I was lucky.
885
00:45:42,781 --> 00:45:44,742
It was... it was the luckiest thing,
886
00:45:44,825 --> 00:45:48,078
next to finding my husband
and having my two children,
887
00:45:48,162 --> 00:45:50,831
the luckiest thing
that's ever happened to me.
888
00:45:50,914 --> 00:45:55,210
So for our Hollywood story
and the people who made it,
889
00:45:55,294 --> 00:45:57,546
they all had a happy ending
890
00:45:58,255 --> 00:46:02,426
fit for Cinder--rella herself.
891
00:46:05,053 --> 00:46:08,682
Except for J.F. He'll never hear
the end of his version of the ending.
892
00:46:08,766 --> 00:46:09,850
I go to Iceland.
893
00:46:10,642 --> 00:46:14,605
And I'm at the top of this big glacier
in the middle of nothing,
894
00:46:14,688 --> 00:46:18,233
and the guide says through the translator,
"What do you do?"
895
00:46:18,317 --> 00:46:20,194
I say, "Well, I wrote Pretty Woman."
896
00:46:20,277 --> 00:46:22,437
And then, through the translator,
he says, "Which one?"
897
00:46:22,488 --> 00:46:25,824
Even a guy who lives in a shack
898
00:46:25,908 --> 00:46:29,119
knows that there were
two versions of this story,
899
00:46:29,203 --> 00:46:31,038
and I didn't write one of them, you know?
900
00:46:32,305 --> 00:47:32,297
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