I saw a screening of The Raven tonight. I thought it was great! I gushed over John Cusack with the woman running the screenings who said that she met him! Ugh.

I saw a screening of The Raven tonight. I thought it was great! I gushed over John Cusack with the woman running the screenings who said that she met him! Ugh.


The original screenplay had a different ending in which Veronica kills J.D. by shooting him and then straps the bomb (a much larger and more complicated piece of equipment, described as being “a cylinder as large as a television set”) to herself, blowing up as J.D. does in the final ending. What is placed in the final ending as JD’s boiler-room speech about “imagine I blew up the school, imagine I blew up all the schools” is contained in a suicide note found in Veronica’s locker by Heather McNamara and Betty Finn. The movie ends with an eerie prom sequence set in Heaven, tying into JD’s assertion that the only place everyone will truly get along is in Heaven. The prom begins with students dancing within their social cliques, then switching partners in odd pairings like metalheads dancing with Heathers and one of the murdered jocks getting his prom picture taken with a tipped cow; the punch being served is the drain cleaner used in the first murder scene, and “Dumptruck” is singing onstage as the entertainment for the evening. This was intended to be shot but the studio thought it was too dark for the target teenage crowd and opted for a lighter ending.

The original screenplay had a different ending in which Veronica kills J.D. by shooting him and then straps the bomb (a much larger and more complicated piece of equipment, described as being “a cylinder as large as a television set”) to herself, blowing up as J.D. does in the final ending. What is placed in the final ending as JD’s boiler-room speech about “imagine I blew up the school, imagine I blew up all the schools” is contained in a suicide note found in Veronica’s locker by Heather McNamara and Betty Finn. The movie ends with an eerie prom sequence set in Heaven, tying into JD’s assertion that the only place everyone will truly get along is in Heaven. The prom begins with students dancing within their social cliques, then switching partners in odd pairings like metalheads dancing with Heathers and one of the murdered jocks getting his prom picture taken with a tipped cow; the punch being served is the drain cleaner used in the first murder scene, and “Dumptruck” is singing onstage as the entertainment for the evening. This was intended to be shot but the studio thought it was too dark for the target teenage crowd and opted for a lighter ending.

(Source: filmtrivia)

One of my favorite movies. DDL is flawless in it.

One of my favorite movies. DDL is flawless in it.