Alpecino was in contention for the roll of edward, which would have made a very different film. Cameron diars didn't want to shoot it and Ben stilla thought it was implausible. It's one of the most famous film moments of the 19 nineties. So it's almost as if the genre is two bounded. It's not evolving enough somehow to match what people really want.
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