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fishwax

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3. well yeah, obviously

Reply to bathroommonkey76 (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 11, 2012, 03:54 PM

Mar 2012

But it wouldn't have been a significantly longer trailer if they'd kept the opening line "after my wife and I split up" instead of "after my father died." So, as I said, I'm curious why they changed it, because it doesn't yet seem to me to serve a purpose. (And, as I said, maybe the voiceover was specific to the trailer, and they won't use the same lines in the actual film.)

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it's weird how they changed the opening line of the book fishwax Mar 2012 #1

A two hour movie isn't going to fit in a 1:45 trailer. bathroommonkey76 Mar 2012 #2

well yeah, obviously fishwax Mar 2012 #3

Remember that Kerouac revised the book bathroommonkey76 Mar 2012 #4

you're right -- the original scroll version was different from the published book fishwax Mar 2012 #5

They probably used the line b/c the movie is based in bathroommonkey76 Mar 2012 #6