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Article: DE PALMA HONES HIS HIGH-WIRE ACT.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- August 7, 1998
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Byline: Joshua Mooney Entertainment News Wire
LOS ANGELES -- Even Brian De Palma, 30-year filmmaking veteran and maestro of thrillers like Carrie, Dressed To Kill and Mission: Impossible, makes mistakes. Like the climactic ``wave scene'' in his latest film, Snake Eyes.
De Palma shot the scene of a storm-fueled flood for a pivotal moment in the movie. Problem is, the scene is now gone - the last-minute victim of test screenings that convinced De Palma that the sequence hurt instead of helped his film.
``The big wave took people out of the story,'' De Palma says. ``It was too big for the story. It was my mistake. I thought we needed the storm to ...