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...Harvard Crimson: Mr. Twohy, what kinds of changes did you make to the script and the production after you signed on to the project...
David Twohy: Interscope told me they had a script with an interesting concept-a ship crash lands on a planet, there doesn't appear to be any life at first, but then we find that the life is nocturnal. Actually, in the early drafts, we had a female convict. I was tired of movies like Lost in Space and Starship Troopers; they're basically just white guys in space. I like the Muslim contingent in the movie. They're devout Muslims, and they're not terrorists...
...threats to national security, one can only imagine the types of services--commerce, communications, the operations of government--that would be susceptible to attack in a year or five-years' time, when the Internet will be even more ubiquitous. If these attacks were accomplished by a few disaffected "script kiddies" or the proverbial 15-year-old in his parents' basement, one can only imagine what could be accomplished by concerted effort to undermine security--say, by a foreign government during wartime, or a company seeking to damage the reputation of its competitors...
Bush even suffered from the beauty of his speeches; even when they didn't say much, they said it well--so well that the words seemed not his own. Especially when his genetic estrangement from the language poked through the script. Bush liked to joke that anyone in the audience who planned on voting for one of what he called his "erstwhile opponents" should refrain from voting more than once. It took weeks before Bush figured out that he didn't mean to say "erstwhile" but "worthwhile." Then there were the "tacular weapons" and the worry that single moms have...
...Flies, Richard himself loses his tenuous grip on reality, plunging into a surreal world that embodies what he so desperately sought to escape in the first place. While the cinematic details of the film are breathtaking,and the scenery positively beautiful, serious discontinuities and leaps of logic in the script leave the audience with more questions than answers by the time the final credits roll. Richard's eroding grip on reality is questionable; it is unclear what exactly causes him to go over the edge. (Was it the island paradise or his beautiful girlfriend that did him in?) Perhaps...