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Wait - who wrote the dialogue in that movie?


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So I'm binge watching season 2 (so far) of Blindspot.  Yes, I have a TV addiction.  No, I'm not going to reform.  While watching an episode this morning before my weekly trip to my weight watchers cult meeting an episode dropped in the tidbit that Joss Whedon wrote 'the good parts' of the movie Speed. 

Say what?

Now Speed is a movie I've seen eleventy times.  I've used it for 20+ years to study plot structure.  And Joss Whedon is not who got the credit (Graham Yost did). 

So I took to google and found an interview at Huffington Post about this with Whedon.    I think I'm going to have to watch Speed again. 


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/10/joss-whedon-speed_n_5473795.html
 

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WhatWouldJohnCrichtonDo?

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I've never actually watched Speed all the way through, just a few scenes here and there. I guess I have a good reason to see it, now that I know Joss Whedon wrote some of it. I love his style of dialogue. :)

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