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Hi. I'm currently working on an edit of Rat Race (my first fanedit). I have five goals with this edit:
- change the terrible, terrible ending and get rid of Smash Mouth
- remove unnecessary exposition at the beginning - the characters should be revealed by their actions, not by meaningless talk at the beginning that never comes up again later (e.g. Meryl and Vera having never met; for the whole movie they act like any normal daughter and mother, not strangers).
- bring this movie a little closer to it's inspiration, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, by doing a new Saul Bass-inspired animated intro and incorporating music from IAMMMMW throughout
- get rid of some of the more over-the-top moments that take the viewer out of the movie
- fix some technical glitches that are present in the original and make a few other minor edits
I'd love to hear comments/suggestions/questions from you all!
Changes I've already made:
- cut the opening song/animation and begun planning a new saul bass-inspired intro
- cut the opening scene to eliminate some dialogue between nick and the hotel clerk and just start on "afro whores"
- reedited owen's referee scene to avoid jump cuts
- cut out all but about 10 frames of first gloria allred appearance
- cut down/reedited scene of vera and meryl meeting scene so they're just a little estranged, not meeting for first time
- cut nick talking to his friend
- started work on a new introduction + coin-finding for pollini (since he's the only main character who doesn't really get one)
- reordered the "finding the gold coin" scenes to accommodate previous cuts and to make timing of reception arrivals make more sense
- cut out vera taking a picture with owen, and the bit about the commemorative coin
- cut meryl calling vera "vera" as she tries to drag her out of the reception
- changed sinclair's "one throw of the dice" to "one throw of the die"
- cut out "who let the dogs out" in stairwell scene, and started working on changes to other music throughout
- cut out weird shot of someone's foot (stepping on glass in front of the camera?) in stairwell
- cut out meryl calling vera "vera" in stairwell and while running for cab
- cut out second gloria allred scene
- cut out stupid and poorly-performed "i'm wigging out back here" by jason and one of bev's lines from car trip and tried to fix bad audio edit present in original
- cut out heart beating gag
- added two deleted shots / one deleted line ("you people are worse than the lucys") while bus is chasing balloon and slightly reedited scene to accommodate
- started working on new ending for donald sinclair and the high rollers
- added two new bus shots and one new balloon shot to ease transition from day to night
- started working on new ending for the rest of the main cast
Changes I'd still like to make:
- finish above bits that are still a work in progress: new opening, new pollini introduction, new ending, new music
- add in a couple bits from the DVD's gag reel. this might not happen, as the whole thing has music running underneath the dialogue that will be more or less impossible to remove.
- check for any more instances where meryl is acting weirdly distant from vera, e.g. calling her "vera" instead of "mom"
- replace the bit with the soapy lucys with a deleted scene of the lucys reciting a scene from the show
- possibly add in a deleted scene of a bus full of rickys
- redo (some of) the credits, maybe with some animation like i'm having at the beginning
