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Farrelly MethodPeter Farrelly (one half of Hollywood's famous Farrelly Brothers) once told fellow screenwriter William Goldman that he and Bobby often deliberately wrote themselves into a corner. "We think if we can go into a corner where there's no way out, and then we take a week or a few days or a month even, and find a reasonable way out without making it absurd, then nobody in the audience is going to sit there and get it within a minute and get ahead of us," he explained. And what, Goldman asked, did they do in that "week or a few days or a month even"? "We just drive," Peter replied. You know, it frees everything up. We just get in the car and drive. I drove across the country fifteen times..."
[At the time of this interview, the Farrellys had made only a handful of films.]
[Trivia: In 1990, Peter wrote the "Virgin" episode for "Seinfeld."]
Farrelly, Peter John (1956- ) American writer, director, and producer [noted for such
films as
Stuck On You (2004),
Shallow Hal (2001),
Me, Myself & Irene (2000),
Outside Providence (1999),
There's Something About Mary (1998), and
Dumb & Dumber (1994)]
[Sources: William Goldman, Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade]More Peter Farrelly anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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