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Ha, I've been at the re-write most of the day now and I'm not far from done.  I'm actually quite pleased with myself...I hate re-writes!

Anthony

Let me know when you're finished with the re-write.

Mark

Me too. I'll read the revised version. That'll be my baby shower gift.

Gabe

Cheers guys.  I'm done with the re-write but as I blitz it yesterday I want to let it settle and read through it again tomorrow.  No major big changes just a few tweaks and a few scene changes.  Oh and Henry appears earlier now as this was suggested by a few readers.

New draft is up.

Hey Anthony

Finished with the redraft.

I didn't notice too many significant changes from the original. You cleaned up the grammar and typos.

As far as the story

I see Henry involved a lot more and entered the script a little earlier than before. Still page 41 for me, is still not early enough as he is basically the catalyst for the story.

I would also like to see his son Tony walking him to his grave along with Billy, a last chance to say goodbye.

My previous post:

Quoted Text The story itself was not as strong as your last feature, I realise some of the tension that was set up between Billy and his brother and Billy and Tony, but I was kinda hoping Henry would be dead again after smoking the pot, when Tony found him. That way, it would have opened up and Tony would have been enraged at Billy. But in the end it just flowed very safely, Tony said he was sorry to his dad and everyone lived happily ever after... I think it's just missing that little kick... maybe Henry wanders off stoned and Degsey knows nothing as he fell asleep and so now there is a hunt for him, all why Tony feels he's been taken for a ride and he's gonna kill Billy.

As this hasn't changed, my opinion is still the same and of course it's only my opinion. I just feel there isn't a great challenge, there's no twist. The audience knows Tony is going over to Billy's house to see if he is bullshitting him... and behold there's his father and an apology later everything is fine... just kinda cheesy, but that's my opinion.

You have a lot of funny lines in there and some standout characters... Degsey and Agatha

I still enjoyed it

good job

Mark

Cheers Mark.  I still haven't finished with this and I like your idea of having Tony walk with Billy and Henry at the end.  I'm finding it very hard to sit down and do any writing at the moment, which is why I thought I'd submit this draft for a few more pointers.

Having Henry introduced earlier helped with a few more funny situations but I'm struggling to get him in earlier still.  My main problem was running time as I could have easily added another 20 pages but over 100 isn't great for a comedy in my mind.

Thanks again Mark and I will get back to this at some point.  Is there anything I can 'try' and read for you?