I mean, the 3rd chapter with James Van Der Beek actually exists, or was just made up?
I've been checking the Storytelling script on the net, and it goes exactly as the movie. Since the script was written before shooting, it's odd the third chapter's not there.
Any thoughts?
I found this here:-
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250081/board/flat/58195023?p=2#94226559
Posted by Henry1234
itching to break away from the clean-cut image he cultivated on "Dawson's Creek," Van Der Beek didn't blink when he signed on to star in the "Fiction" segment of Todd Solondz's fourth film as a sexually confused high school jock in the 1980s who, according to those who saw the original NC-17 cut, was a little less confused after an explicit "Brown Bunny"-esque scene with another man. Heather Matarazzo and Emmanuelle Chriqui were also casualties of the editing down of the two-and-a-half-hour film to the 87 minute, R-rated affair it became. When Van Der Beek made the rounds with "The Rules of Attraction, " which finally did earn him some indie cred, he ended his self-imposed gag order about "Storytelling" on Moviehole, saying, "I remember saying to Todd [Solondz] the director, when I was doing ADR, that 'even if I get cut from this movie, I just want to say what a fabulous time I've had on this.' I will never say that to a director again!"
http://www.ifc.com/news/article?aId=21915
Hm, so he was a part of Fiction.
I always heard Storytelling was supposed to have 3 chapters: Fiction, Non-Fiction and Autobiography, and Van Der Beek would be the center of Autobiography.
I also think it's odd how I keep reading that Heather Matarazzo was cut out of this movie, since Todd Slodonz said he approached her twice asking her to reprise her role as Dawn, one time for this movie, the second for Palindromes, and she declined, saying she would never play Dawn again.
Maybe she played a different character here, or maybe it's just not true.
"I remember saying to Todd [Solondz] the director, when I was doing ADR, that 'even if I get cut from this movie, I just want to say what a fabulous time I've had on this.' I will never say that to a director again!"
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Interesting quotation