DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN MOVIE
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Studio execs had never heard of her, so Ed Lachman and I went to Union Square to shoot her audition reel. I pulled for Madonna - I knew her from living downtown. When Susan was restyled as a New Wave/punk figure, we considered Melanie Griffith, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ellen Barkin, and Kelly McGillis. During the first casting talks, Keaton and Goldie Hawn were considered. The downtown Susan story, pyramid jacket, and Nefertiti earrings came later. Susan was more of a hippie traveler - Diane Keaton in an embroidered shirt. When I first got involved, the characters were of a different generation. I knew I could have fun and deal with themes that were important to me, namely: living and exploring the person you want to be and changing your lifestyle to something more interesting and fulfilling. When Susan came to me, obviously, I loved the title. What about those pictures Herb Ritts took of Madonna and Rosanna? A marketing guy looked at the slide and said, вЂњIf you put two women on a poster, people will think itвЂ™s a lesbian movie.вЂќ All the people in the room were middle-aged men who didnвЂ™t get the movie. Another had MadonnaвЂ™s face reflected on a toaster and RosannaвЂ™s on a piece of toast popping out. OrionвЂ™s idea for posters included one with Madonna standing in front of a brick wall and Rosanna peeping over it. SheвЂ™s a clever con artist and doesnвЂ™t let you know when youвЂ™re being conned. She borrows their clothes and trades and swaps and barters. She charms her way into every situation, gets guys to take her to dinner and girlfriends to let her stay in their apartments. I liked the fact that Roberta had a character arc, that she changed and grew. I loved the idea that the producers, director, screenwriter, and studio executive all were women. вЂ¦ Each is drawn to look beyond her own world and experience the world of the other. the two women from different realms are curious about each other. I liked the way plays with reality in an offhanded, barely perceptible way.

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DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN MOVIE

Last week, in anticipation of the 30th anniversary of the filmвЂ™s release on March 29, 2015, Carrie spoke again with everyone but Madonna вЂ“ вЂњwhoвЂ™s busy with her new tourвЂќ, Carrie explains вЂ“ about the movie and their memories of two young women out to take a much grittier Manhattan. It was actually a groundbreaking female force at the time.Carrie Rickey from Yahoo! Movies was on the Desperately Seeking Susan set in 1984 and interviewed the producers, director Susan Seidelman, and the movie stars Rosanna Arquette and Madonna.

The whole thing was women, and it was groundbreaking at the time. вЂњNow, this movie, Desperately Seeking Susan, it had a woman director, written by a woman, women producers, and the studio had Barbara Boyle at Orion, Mike Medavoy's company at the time. Still, despite not getting the female-centric ending she wanted, Arquette has dear memories of working on such a female-driven project, in an age when this was exceedingly rare. In fact, many audience members got up and left after that scene - so it was obvious that the movie needed to wrap up earlier.

However, there was one deleted scene that featured Susan and Roberta riding off into the sunset together - on camels! Thirty-five years later, Arquette tells Yahoo Entertainment/ SiriusXM Volume sheвЂ™s disappointed that the scene was dropped.Дesperately Seeking SusanвЂ™s alternate ending can be seen starting at the 4:25 mark below:ДЄ still of the deleted alternate ending to 'Desperately Seeking Susan.' (Photo: Orion Pictures)ДЄrquette says she fought to keep the original desert-pilgrimage finale intact, but when Desperately Seeking Susan was previewed at screenings, test audiences thought the film ended with the cinema/City Hall вЂњgood going, stranger!вЂќ sequence. Desperately Seeking Susan, which came out on April 12, 1985, was the ultimate вЂ80s female rock вЂn roll buddy comedy, with two of the decadeвЂ™s most glamorous women, Madonna and Rosanna Arquette, posing on one of the decadeвЂ™s most glamorous movie posters in their matching Santo Loquasto pyramid jackets.Д«ut the two arenвЂ™t buddies throughout most of the movie, and actually have hardly any scenes together - since, due the filmвЂ™s somewhat belief-suspending plot, ArquetteвЂ™s character, amnesia-stricken Fort Lee housewife Roberta Glass, spends most of the film accidentally impersonating MadonnaвЂ™s free-spirited, armpit-airdrying East Villager Susan Thomas, before their worlds finally collide.

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