8426. HABITUAL CAR THIEVES AND HIGHLAND PLOTTERS

HABITUAL CAR THIEVES AND

HIGHLAND PLOTTERS

The situation with elation is always

like this  -  the prettiest girl gets the

worse guy, characters are mixed up,

someone always starts doing the 

God-damned Fandango or Tango

and foolscap errands begin to clap 

while the band refuses to stop.

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When first this film was plotted, we

threw away the script and started

backwards; figuring the lion's share

of credit would go to a heroin anyway.

One gratuitous sex scene later, she's

wiping it all off her grand ballroom

dress. Boy, did we screw that scene up.

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Out front, the gangster comes rushing

to the scene. We had to get two '36 Buicks,

exactly alike for that  -  to show different

angles of the scene, but we didn't have time

to do it twice so we did it all once. Same

action, but in two different angles with 

different sets of dark-clad people. None

of the audience idiots ever notice.

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We wanted to title the film 'Life Goes On.'

But then, at the end, we realized so many

people were dead that it really doesn't.

So that's where we got 'Habitual Car

Thieves and Highland Plotters.'