![]() ![]() The moment we see Joel driving home right before he gets the procedure done is when Clementine asks him to call her once he gets home. You know that scene when Joel and Clementine lie and stargaze in the frozen Charles River? Instead of the beginning, Kaufman makes it happen towards the end, making it chronologically correct. Moving forward, the changes in the script are mostly minor, with characters, in general, getting a few extra lines in scenes.īut the biggest changes come at the beginning. Later on, when Joel is trying to figure out why and how Clementine erased him from her memory, their friend Carrie says that Clementine learned about Lacuna (the memory-erasing company) from a woman at the supermarket. ![]() In the diner, when he meets Clementine, she gets a little dialogue with the waitress. Joel’s voice overs also have a few extra lines, especially about him thinking of getting back to Naomi, his ex-girlfriend. ![]() His dialogue on the phone with his boss is also longer. But instead of taking the audience through Joel’s sad morning routine, it opens on the commuter train station, with Joel rushing to catch the train Montauk. We’ll also be talking about some of the earlier drafts available online and how they differ. The main reference for this article will be the shooting script published by Newmarket from their The Shooting Script series. He decides to do the same, but during the process, he becomes conscious and regrets it, so he begins to turn it around. Not only did it get him his first (and only, so far) Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, but also it’s his most commercially successful movie with a $70 million worldwide gross.įor those of you who have not watched the movie, it tells the story of Joel Barish, a down-on-his-luck artist, who realizes his ex-girlfriend Clementine has erased him from his memory. With the release of Charlie Kaufman’s new movie Anomalisa in select theaters on December 20, everywhere at an unspecified date in January, it’s a good idea to start off this series with the screenplay that became perhaps Kaufman’s most famous film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. ![]()
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