#and this comes from a person who made a post about loving litleshit!nicky like two days before the script dropped!

[wickedpact]

I liked script Nicky a lot but Luca really captured a serene 1000 year old cryptoid soul so perfectly that I appreciate the choices he made even more now. Script Nicky almost seems like a younger Nicky to me.

yeah tbh a lot of what the script is doing is fun & charming, but a lot of it is just 'this is funny, but i like the movie more'. (excluding the quynh stuff, a lot of that was just Good)

ive seen a few people say smth to the effect of 'the script feels like fanfiction! (complimentary)' and yeah... it does. which that isnt an insult, im not saying fanfic is bad (its not) but the script, in terms of tone & usage of humor, doesnt. . .. quite feel like the movie, therefore it feels a little fanfic-y.

i mean when you look at how tog does humor, its generally more subtle, banter-y stuff, rather than 'nicky and book brawl over salt' or 'booker makes c4 animals fuck'. which... suits the movie, bc it has such a melancholy tone and such serious themes to explore. theres levity, but its not overly silly, you know

(and as much as i find booker and nicky playfighting over salt EXTREMELY COMEDIC, i do have a bit of a grudge against the idea of that scene bc im not a fan of the trope where 'all the men in the group are manbabies and the women/woman in the group are the mature one(s)/their mom'. i mean

'like schoolboys'... one of my 10 million things i love abt tog is that the maturity of the men matches the women. andy is just as Gold Of Heart, Dumb Of Ass as the rest of the boys, she's not their keeper.)

and like, yeah, theres a lot of little comedic things which are definitely funny and definitely fun to read in a script, but i definitely prefer what we got (and it varies too. 'booker making c4 animals fuck' isnt the same as 'nicky pretends to fight book over salt' which isnt the same as 'andy suffers as a random lady rambles to her about the size of her head' which isnt the same as 'joe and nicky banter about copley's shoe pile')

however in terms of the examples of these things ^ we do see in the movie (the selfie lady, joe's reaction to the shoes, etc) i like how theyre done in the movie more, theyre a little more mature/serious. which. gina's influence, probably.

#and this comes from a person who made a post about loving litleshit!nicky like two days before the script dropped! #i just think they went a little too ham on the funny bits & i agree w you anon i like the nicky we got more #as much as the confirmation that he Is a lil shit is Hashtag VALIDATIOOOOOOON #so yeah tldr loved to see it but i love the movie more. also give us the deleted scenes #i mean its a draft of the final product. and it feels like one! and thats fine! its abt the serotonin <3