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it's obviously as you know just such a
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huge comedy it's there's never been
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anything quite like it I don't think I'd
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never seen a comedy like it's also like
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a huge I mean without any jokes it was a
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huge movie meaning just as far as like
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visual I mean a fact to shoot oh yeah it
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was a yet explosive it was as big as any
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war movie you know we we I mean as far
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as the look I mean been such I mean he's
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obviously you know does get the credit
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you know um but he's often not credited
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enough I think with how great a director
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he is you know he is like a real camera
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mover who knows how to where was it oh
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yeah where'd you shoot it Hawaii
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we didn't need the authentic background
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why we needed to see a couple trees
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cast happy there's two there's
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a thing about a movie in comedies uh
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probably dramas too it's just these uh
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whatever you call them word packages
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that just are Transcendent that are
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funnier as time goes on you know and I I
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think one of them that's less
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controversial would be the Tom Cruise
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Les Grossman I want you to take one step
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back and literally [ __ ] your face or
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your own face yeah which one was it I'm
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not sure but that's the that's the kind
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of thing and again like Monty Python I
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don't know where that influence came
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from but those type of lines that
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nonsensical thing
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um I assume it wasn't a guy alone in a
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room or you're together at that point
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where you're kind of riffing what that
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character say or character uh came out
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of you know we
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you know we wanted Tom to be in the
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movie very badly and he it was kind of
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um he was like well I read the script
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and there's he's like there's no like
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Studio presence like why don't we create
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like a studio uh character you know and
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I just had a really bad experience
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working for Harvey Weinstein and so
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um on a movie that I directed and I I
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thought shocker and whatever happened to
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that guy go ahead
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um I and I just wanted to like I just
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wanted to um I wanted to somehow
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memorialize that bad experience and
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um and so that's how I got that
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character you know wow
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it's even funny just that like that Ray
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I remember Joel Silver one time he goes
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hey was that character based on me and I
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go no he goes damn it okay I wanted it
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to be based oh funny well the Popeye
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forearms and the hands and then the Tom
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Cruise uh which you know everyone loved
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the new Top Gun I mean he gets shinier
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and brighter when I look back and I see
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him now and I look at him in that movie
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when he's doing the dance slapping the
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ass at the end it's like yeah the guy is
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really funny he's so funny and he's so
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committed you know um yeah and I
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remember kind of
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because he has some really hard charging
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lines in that in that movie
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um
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writing him these lines he's gonna say
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Tom Cruise is gonna say this like yeah
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it is before we had seen him in any of
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the tests and hair and makeup and stuff
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well without saying the line which were
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the ones that were the most scary or you
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really couldn't use it was too far no
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maybe you can't you know we had sort of
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like Ben's a really smart director we
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you know if if we were to sort of pile
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the script up in all the pages that were
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written it would probably look like a
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phone book or a three phone book stacked
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on top of each other Ben is really good
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at um we would always sort of shoot like
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sort of you know an A B and C category
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of jokes within the scene and then
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alternates alternates alternates we had
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sort of these alternate scripts that we
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would go okay now we're gonna do one
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where you say this and so in the edit
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you know when we could you know when Ben
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was sort of testing the movie uh he was
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able to see you know oh this this you
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know went a little too far let's dial it
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back and you know that could be
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something simple just like too many
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f-bombs in a row or something