I’d like to see a story with two protagonists filmed then edited into two separate movies, one from each protagonist’s point of view, and released simultaneously. For example, a romantic comedy where one film is from the guy’s POV, the other from the girl’s POV. Major characters in one would be minor characters in the other. There would be some common scenes but edited differently to reflect the two characters experience (sort of like how Pulp Fiction handles overlapping scenes), and some that are unique to each film. I think this could be quite clever if done right. I’ve heard there was a two-part TV movie about 30 years ago starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton along these lines, it would be interesting to see a theatrical release try it.
Another one would be for a movie with alternate endings to be released to theaters, with different theaters getting different endings. That’s more of a PR gimmick though, good for generating a lot of publicity if nothing else. I can imagine the internet buzz: Which theaters are showing which endings? Have you seen them all? Which is the ending the director considers the “real” one?
He Said, She Said
It was one movie, but each half from different perspectives, with a male director for the one half and a female director for the other.
Clue
3 endings, shown differently at different theaters.
There were a few crossover nights when all the characters on NBC’s Thursday night sitcoms would bumb into each other on each other’s shows.
Law & Order has crossed over with Homicide: Life on the Street too. Both crime procedurals, but the two shows couldn’t be more different in terms of style and atmosphere. It was fun to see each show’s characters thrown into the milieu of the other.
Cool. I’ve only seen it on TV and knew about the triple ending as shown in the broadcast version. I didn’t know that theaters got only one, random ending.
Yeah. He had the bends and didn’t feel up to doing doing the scene and suggested he just shoot the swordsman… Temple of Doom has a great call back to this scene where Indy is again confronted with a swordsman. He smirks and reaches for his gun…only to find it fell out of the holster.
I want a scene in a procedural where a character is brought in for interrogation. He’s the exboyfriend, the exstalker, etc. He’s really the prime suspect. When they confront him, instead of being all “What! I didn’t do it! How dare you!” he flatly says, “Listen, I understand that I’m the number one suspect. I had every reason to kill “X” but I didn’t do it. I will cooperate fully. I will answer any of your questions. I will help in any way I can. Because I didn’t do it.”
