"Seven Days in May" - the movie - Is being shown on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM-TV) in one hour

[Jan Klimkowski]

P.S. -- Rutger Hauer is acknowledged by Ridley Scott and screenwriter David Peoples to be the author Roy's final speech.

Peoples's original, which Hauer later characterized as "opera talk" and "high tech speech," pales by comparison:

"I've known adventures, seen places you people will never see, I've been Offworld and back... frontiers! I've stood on the back deck of a blinker bound for the Plutition Camps with sweat in my eyes watching the stars fight on the shoulder of Orion...I've felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the black galaxies and seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear. I've seen it, felt it...!"

Indeed.

The dove soaring heavenwards is allegedly stolen from the rushes of one of his brother Tony Scott's films, just as the end sequence contains rushes lifted from Kubrick's The Shining.

Movies are absolutely creative collaborations.

However, directors can choose whether to make films or not.

After the grisly murder of Sharon Tate and their unborn child, Polanski chose to make a film of Macbeth, heavily adapting Shakespeare's text.

Here's the notorious and highly graphic assassination scene, filmed in 1971, two years after Sharon Tate was mercilessly sliced up.