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Re: Stranger Than Fiction
Yeah, Adam, that could have worked from a storyline standpoint, but it would have messed with the film's larger theme of destiny/fate vs. free will.
Basically, who's to say that events would or would not have enfolded the way they did had Karen finished the book or not? Or more importantly, whereas it appeared Karen was controlling Harold's life, who would/could be controlling Karen's? Did she have free will where Harold was controlled by destiny?
For me, theme was much more important than story in this film, and I loved it.
"If you write a story about a soldier going AWOL and kidnapping a pregnant woman and finally shooting her in the head, it's called searingly realistic, even though it's never happened in the history of mankind. Whereas if you write about two people falling in love, which happens about a million times a day all over the world, for some reason or another, you're accused of writing something unrealistic and sentimental."
-Richard Curtis, Screenwriter and Director
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