Another change he made was the way the very beginning opens--the script starts with the couple in the cabin, which gives us a question right off the bat: who are these people? That question gets bigger and louder at the end of the first page when the camera pulls back out to the car. Then it's ok, wait. Why is there a guy alone in the woods, drunk, watching and listening to these people have sex? This isn't normal...But then the question gets even more important and extremely interesting when we see Andy pull the gun out of the glove box, which happens on page 2. And then we know guns, alcohol, two other people having sex, jealous lovers? Revenge? Something is about to happen and we're paying attention.

The movie version skips to the biggest question right off the bat--the sound of the couple having sex does all the work that the visuals do, and we get right to the biggest hook: drunk guy, with gun, listening to people having sex, obviously not pleased: WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN?

So he took a pretty fantastic opening sequence and made it great by moving the biggest question for the audience to the first 20 seconds of the movie (and then showed everything together, letting the voice over, the aftermath and the events as they happened all go at once. Maximizing the drama of that sequence, I'd say).

Hm. He seems to be good at this writing stuff.

My all-time favorite movie. I loved the short story, loved the script, LOVE the movie. Thanks for posting!