I've been trying to find the script for this film for a long, long time!
I especially want to have the part when the character played by Will Smith gives his thesis on the Salinger novel.
If anyone knows where i can find it, please tell me :)
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thanks
david gray
I don't know if you've found it by now, but I know you can find the play in bookstores/online. It would probably be worth checking out to see if his Catcher in the Rye speech in the play is similar (if not the same) as the one in the film.
shareI am an actor currently playing the role of Paul on stage in Washington, DC. The speech is in the script of the play. In fact, the film is an almost word for word copy of the play script (both written by Guare). I was surprised how much the film stuck to the original stage script. I wondered how the film would deal with the interludes where (in the play) Flan and Ouisa address the audience and liked how the film took care of this issue by having people at the wedding, in restaurants, at art galleries, etc listening to their story. You can watch the film and follow about 97% of it by reading the play. The Catcher in the Rye speech is word for word.
shareJust in case anyone's wondering in the future, Ouisa's "Six Degrees" monologue is incredibly close to word-for-word as well; I use it for most auditions so I recognized that pretty much everything was the same when I watched the movie version today. I think the only difference is that there's a sort of cut-in at one point of a few words, it almost seems improvisational...and it fit better with the movie anyway.
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