When Liza got the script to this movie, she sent it her mother in London.
Judy was quoted as sayng "Liza, why do you want to play this crazy mixed up girl?"
There is a lot of Pookie in that script that never made it to the screen. The scripted Pookie is a dangerously emotionally disturbed young woman, not the pathetic, heartbroken coed you see in the movie. Lots of editing and reinterpretation of the script occurred in the making of TSC. The characters undergo a substantial "transformation" (as one writer put it) from the novel to the script, and then again to the screen.
More pertinent perhaps: the
feeling of each of these efforts is different. The novel says "I am putting all this behind me." The Sargent/Pakula script (April, 1968) says "I sure am glad I survived all that!" The movie says "I live with this every day..."
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vanityfair_713
16 years ago
Interesting...I'd heard Judy's reaction, but never knew about the differences in "Pookie"s.
Personally, I think I have too much bloom. Maybe that's the trouble with me.
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