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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 2461574" data-attributes="member: 515">Now you are the one who seems to be extremely uninformed. In Hollywood, a "name" director (and Michael Bay, for better or for worse, is a "name" director) has much greater influence over what ends up in the final product than the writer does. The writer does the original script, yes, but if the director wants it changed, it gets changed. The studio will even bring in other people to rewrite the script. The director sometimes does his own rewriting of certain scenes. It's entirely possible that the original script for The Island did explore more fully the sci-fi parable aspects of the movie. Then Bay might have said, "I don't want to film this crap, let's cut it out in favor of more explosions and chases and stuff." And the studio would probably say, "OK, whatever you want. Explosions and chases appeal to more people than stuff that actually makes them think." So it got cut. Or it could have been filmed, then cut in the editing room, for length or because Bay didn't like how it flowed or fit with the rest of the movie. Movies can be tremendously changed in the editing process. The main story that made it into Annie Hall, for example, was just a subplot of the original film. They cut out all the rest of the stuff and changed the focus of the movie in editing. There also were several attempts to make movie musicals in the 80s and 90s that didn't score well with test audiences, so all of the songs were cut out and they were released as non-musicals. Even "name" actors have more power over what gets into the finished version of the movie than the screenwriter does.</blockquote>

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