After the commercial disappointment of his second feature film
Singles, director Cameron Crowe couldn't help but notice
how many fair weather friends were disappearing now that he was no
longer the hot new kid in town. That realization lit the spark for
what would become his next project - Jerry Maguire.
It took several years before the initial idea evolved into a
finished script and there were a lot of interesting changes along
the way. We explore how a filmmaker with no interest in
professional sports turned that into the perfect backdrop for this
story.
Topics include: the other A-list movie star Crowe wrote the title
role for, the decision to start this film where any other movie
about this guy would have ended, how shocked they were that "show
me the money" became a catchphrase, the line they thought
was going to be the most quoted, the difference between this era of
Cameron Crowe's work and his more recent output, how much plot gets
crammed into the third act, why the iconic climactic scene might be
the wrong ending for this movie, and much more!
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