[Editor’s note: The following interviews contain spoilers for “The Naked Gun.”]
It is a scene that comes out of nowhere, and about the people who want to talk about after seeing the new film “Naked Gun”. In the middle of the film, Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) and Beth (Pamela Anderson) fell in love and got a installation of the 80s style of installation, who followed the new couple to a winter cabin on the short vacation of a lover.
In the remote cabin, a book with magic Frank and Beth's cheerful snowman brings to life. First of all, the snowman is part of the silly, intimate games of the couple, but finally becomes a third bike, which leads to murder rage and love assembly, which is more similar to a horror film.
The snowman is so out of the wall, brazen and hysterical-die perfect mix of “The Naked Gun” and the lonely island style of humor and it is also the best example of how co-author Akiva Schaffer put his own stamp on the franchise.
As a Schaffer in the filmmaker Toolkit PodcastHe discussed the Snowman scene and how careful he had to make the “fan fiction” of the original. “No insult to other restarts, redos and legacy continuations out there, but many of them are so firm to reproduce the stuff that the original did,” said Schaffer. “You see you and are very happy, but it's like empty calories, and when it is done, you hardly remember that you have seen it because at least my theory is not really a new film. You are fanfiction of the old film.”
This fear of making a “color according to Mad Libs” of the original. “We have to do in our script, we said:” Wow, this love story deserves an assembly, “said Schaffer.” The original 'naked weapon' has a very famous, very good assembly set for 'I'm in something good.' “
The original Love Montage of 1988 is really a classic – the Hermit 1964 hit by Hermans Hermit 1964 is clever when Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley laugh through a first date to see “Train” is still funny and who can be able to forget it The Börsenkordom? The original had done it all so well, but others too.
“We knew that it had to be different,” said Schaffer. “And then there were also 30 years in which it made fun of assembly whether it was 'Team America', or whatever, there is not much space in assembly. We did not discuss assembly and had a few other ideas.”
Schaffer said he was aware of “Jack Frost”, but only saw the trailer of the 1998 Killer Snowman film. It was not a subgenre (if you could call it that), he had deliberately thought that he fake, but one night when he got up at four in the morning to use the bathroom, the snowman scene began to play in his head.
“When I came back to bed, it was noted in the author's room that day, and I just saw the whole thing and wrote it in Bullet Point Notes and then wrote it to Dan and Doug,” said Schaeffer. “The next morning I came to the writer's room and they said: 'Yes. To be honest, it only changed from the teen bits for reasons of production, a cabin instead of a house, but it never really changed.”
This does not mean that everyone who is connected to the restart of “The Naked Gun” first understood the brilliance of the scene. “It was polarizing in screenplay reads. People who really respect, like Andy Sandberg when he read it for me, he said:” Snowman is the best. Don't let them cut it because he knows that it would be tutable, “said Schaeffer.” It makes sense when you see the film, but at some point I had to threaten to leave. “
Schaffer is clear that he felt supported to make the film he wanted to make, but because of the opposition, he reacted the snowman so that it could be removed from the film without leaving a hole. For example, there were drafts of the script, in which the snowman reappeared at the end of the film – was able to reconstitute after the climatic action scene from the fountain that were never turned.
“After the first test screen it was number one in the film,” said Schaffer. “The people who really fought me after eating a lot of crow without asking myself. I tried to let them get off and go, 'that's okay', but they said: 'No, age, we were wrong.'”
“The Naked Gun” publishes a Paramount pictures, now in the cinemas.
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