Dedicated to Charles B Griffith “your work has always ‘Rocked all night’, Daddy-O” – but surely Griffith would have written it shorter. (But then maybe not – his unfilmed script for The Golden Bug went for over 180 pages) This goes on and on: why have a scene of Arlene going to the toilet? Why so much talk about getting pot and then ordering pot, going out with some guy the night before, setting up a lap dancing “subplot”, all the text messaging and phone calls, and talk, talk, talk? Talk worked in Pulp Fiction because something cool would happen every couple of minutes. Here it takes 71 pages for something decent to happen – 71!!! Most of the famous Griffith features didn’t even go for 71 minutes.
There’s a terrific killing scene – but then things slow down with more talk and talk and talk with a fresh bunch of girls (I can’t imagine any script which referred more to girl’s feet – they’re sticking out the window, or there’s talk of massages, etc from everyone. There’s also quite a few references to women urinating, and having sex with directors.). Things liven up with an action sequence at the end, but this is a really boring, dull screenplay. It should have gone for twenty minutes, not nearly two hours. And he mis-spells "Auckland".
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