The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Tropper about staying true to the beloved book, deciding against the use of voiceover and converting the entire family to Judaism to further humiliate his heartbroken protagonist. I feel very free to go off and try different things.” You’re not limited the way you are in screenwriting. That’s something that isn’t in the movie at all, because it was tonally askew for what we were doing in the movie,” Tropper says of the sections that reveal how Paul stayed in his hometown instead of going to college on an athletic scholarship after he’s horribly injured while helping Judd.Īnd of the hilarious and heartbreaking chapters that take place completely in Judd’s mind, Tropper says, “One of the fun things about book writing, which is why I’ll never stop, is because you can indulge in all the flights of fancy and take on a dream sequence if you want to have a three-chapter tangent. “It was hard to get that right, tonally, to hit all the right emotional notes without being too dark.
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