Posted by Vincent at ac9c75d5.ipt.aol.com on May 13, 2001 at 15:03:42:
In Reply to: Yes- posted by Vincent on May 13, 2001 at 15:00:30:
The version of the script I have doesn't BEGIN with the funeral- it begins as the film does with the recruits having their head's shaved. The funeral is a coda at the very end.
: - it's quite powerfully written too, cutting back and forth between Joker in Vietnam and Joker as a child playing war games and ending with him being riddled with bullets. There's also a coda with his funeral.
: I don't know if any of that was shot though, but the decapitation supposedly was.
: The script also lacks Gustav Hasford's name as a screenwriter. He only got credit after he threatened legal action.
: Vincent
: : ...where Joker dies (physically) towards the end? same friend mentioned this from the same book. apparently the film would begin some time after Joker's death and then go back to the start of training.
: : thanks for this info. some day i'll read up on this stuff myself.
: : Rob xx