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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Bad Lieutenant
asktheages — 9 years ago(July 26, 2016 07:53 PM)
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According to Jonas Mekas, Lund's ex-boyfriend Edouard de Laurot was reported to have written most of the film's script.[6] David Scott Milton later vouched this claim.[7] Mekas even claims he has "scribbles and notes to prove it."[8]
Here are the sources provided:
http://www.thewhitereview.org/features/missing-footage/
http://www.dsmilton.com/2014/09/edouard-de-laurot-film-genius-lunatic/
http://www.webofstories.com/play/jonas.mekas/50;jsessionid=D70154EB77FEE517A237BEFA3043154F
What do you think? Anybody know anything about this? I mean, is there possibly any truth to this claim? I don't see why Jonas Mekas would lie about this, and to such an extent as to say he has documentation that provies it but I dunno, he might be a loony. Lots of great artists are.
I feel that it's definitely possible that the script was mostly Zoe's work, even Abel has acknowledged this on occasion, but to say it's actually mostly de Laurot's? Seems more likely that he'd be an influence on it as Zoe wrote, maybe throwing ideas out there, instead of him actually penning it. But who knows? I'm askin'.