First Blood and Brainstorming Exercise

8 Março 2017, 10:00 • David Alan Prescott

Demonstration of how First Blood goes from being a novel in 1972 to being a movie in 1982. The first script is written in 1972 but then goes through many changes until the final shooting script, including going from Johnny Rambo being a violent killer who is killed at the end to being a violent killer who commits suicide at the end and then, with Sylvester Stallone now working on the final script, becomes a sympathetic character who is not directly responsible for killing anyone and who survives at the end.
Brainstorming exercise: the class has to imagine a good, kind doctor going from waking up in the morning to arriving at hospital to receive his first patient. The class decided he: wakes up at 05:28, before the alarm, turns off the alarm so as not to wake his wife and returns to bring her a cup of coffee before he leaves for work. At the hospital he talks to a cleaning lady, knowing her name, and asks about her young son's work at school. The receptionist comments that he is early as usual and he goes to wait for his first patient, a young child.
Changes to make him a "bad" person involved, according to the class; he wakes up to the sound of the alarm at 09;00. His wife's space has been slept in but she is not there. At the hospital he ignores the cleaning lady, walking across her wet floor. The receptionist looks at her watch and says that his first patient, Mrs Smith and little Johnny are waiting, yet he still goes off for a coffee, which he carries with him to his office.