The other night, I finished rewriting the script taking into account the various notes I've received on Alpha 77. Ben is still probably going to feel that there is much more narration than necessary. I leave him with this story from Mike Figgis' book...
"When I was making One Night Stand I had a confrontation with Wesley Snipes. He questioned the substance of a scene and said that he found it hard to believe that he would do what was in the script. It was a scene where he spills ink on his shirt and Nastassja Kinski offers him her room in which to change. Wesley—quite correctly—said that he wouldn't go upstairs with a strange blonde woman to change a shirt. His body was in great shape, and he'd change right there in the lobby. 'So why am I going upstairs with her?' Again, this was a very public debate in front of the crew and the actors. I thought for a while and then said the following. "Wesley, you are entirely correct, the scene is not particularly well conceived and I hope, will occupy only a short amount of time in the film, so that the audience doesn't come to the same conclusion as you. However, without the scene, the film will not work—there will be no romance. So I rely on your amazing ability as an actor to get us through this moment convincingly and quickly.' He was happy with this response and did just that. The mistake would have been to argue the point."
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