I recently saw This Is 40, and I was kind of baffled. I have a friend who works for Judd Apatow. This friend did a little poking around at my request, and managed to find Apatow’s original notes for the film. I persuaded this friend to send them to me in an email. And now I’m passing them on to you. Obviously I’m not going to name my source, but what follows are Judd Apatow’s original notes when he came up with the idea for the movie This Is 40. I think they shed some light on the film.
“I want to deal with someone turning 40, and the problems
associated with that age. So, let’s see, I’ll start with a husband and a wife.
I’m not sure which one is turning 40, so for now let’s make it both of them,
and I’ll figure it out later. They should be having some sort of marital
problems, but I’m not sure just yet what sort. Maybe financial, maybe
communication problems, maybe problems at work, or with the kids. I’ll just
include all of those, and sort it out later.
Oh, maybe problems with their parents. Perhaps a parent has remarried and
has much younger children. I’m not sure if it should be the wife’s father or
the husband’s father who does this, so for now let’s make it both and I’ll sort
it out later. Either the husband or the wife owns a business, and it’s in
trouble somehow. Wait, better make them both own businesses, and both
businesses are in trouble, and I’ll figure it out later. Maybe someone at the
wife’s business is stealing from her. I’ll put a hot girl in the store, so
people will think it’s her, but it’s really the other girl. I’m not sure how to
resolve this, and right now all I can think of is that the other girl is Asian
and she just acts crazy at the end. That’s believable because all Asian women
are completely fucking bonkers. Seriously. Why is that? I don’t know. But I’m
not going to get into it with this film. How do we make people think it’s the
hot girl? I know – she has new clothes and a new car that she could never
afford on her salary. But how can she afford that stuff then? Of course! She
also works as a prostitute. That’s the only way a woman would get that stuff.
That’s where she makes her real money. So why does she bother working at the
store? I don’t know. Do I need a reason? Maybe I’ll come up with one
later. Oh, by the way, the wife is
having trouble coping with turning 40, so she lies about her age. That is brilliant
and original. So she doesn’t want a party. But the husband does. Also, the
husband likes cupcakes. That just came to me. Just now. He loves them. Can’t
get enough of them. Maybe I can show him eating an old cupcake that’s been in
the sink. That would be a really funny scene. The wife hates that he eats
cupcakes. So who keeps buying them – him? Does he do the grocery shopping? I
don’t know. It doesn’t matter. There are just lots of cupcakes. Fuck, I’m a
genius. I feel like the script is almost
done. But we need some sort of chase scene or someone should be in danger
somehow for some reason. I almost got in
an accident yesterday. I almost hit someone on a bicycle. Fucker kept swerving
out of the bike lane. I’ve got it – the husband loves riding his bicycle, and
he goes for a really fast ride on his birthday, and ends up in the hospital.
That way the husband and wife can tell each other they love each other. Scenes
like that always work in hospitals. Hospitals, hospitals. I have an idea! Let’s have an early scene
where the husband or wife is getting a check-up, and it’s really embarrassing.
Turn and cough, finger in the butt, all that stuff. Should it be the wife? I’ll just have them
both go to the doctor, and I’ll figure it out later. This is going to be a
great movie. I just need to work in some fart jokes somehow. Doesn’t matter
how, or when. Yes, I’m ready to cash my paycheck for this one. Fuck it, you
know what, I’m just going to use these notes as the script. Done, done, done.
Now time to go order lunch.”
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