This afternoon, I opened up a recently-created Final Draft script in TextMate, to see how easily I could pull out the text. As one would expect, there was a lot of incomprehensible goobledygook. But there was also a surprising amount of detritus left over from previous projects — notably Big Fish.
It’s a little troubling that words and phrases from projects more than five years old are still showing up in new script files. My hunch is that it has something to do with the spell-checker, since these are unusual words (or August-isms) that the program might have flagged.
I’ve cleaned up the formatting, but these are the words:
- CROSSFADE
- Mmm
- Enchanté
- Buick
- Jesus-down-at-the-carwash
- Pinnochio?
- Frankensteinian
- lawnmowers
- nightstand
- WHIRR
- co-signed
- Gainsville
- handbrake
- Rockwell-esque
- SQUISHING
- AP
- payphone
- Hmm
- notepad
- Oldsmobile
- Calloway
- GRAVESIDE
- WINSLOW
- Grampa’s
- Grampa?
- thataway
- Chevrolet
- Chevy
- missus
- Soggybottoms
- Winslow
- ya!
- Atari
- Hawkin’s
- uncatchable
- UNIV
- ça va?
- funeral-goers
- rainsoaked
- Allo oui?
- Crap
- Uh-huh
- chemo
- babysitting
- treehouse
- TREEHOUSE
- gonna
- crap
- twisty croc
- hafta
- wanna!
- Gimme
- unamused
- McHibbon
- IV
- ‘ssmooshing
- Johansen
- JOHANSEN
- POV
- ‘im!
- SHEPHARD
- ‘Cuz
- gotta
- improvin’
- hun’erd
- WINN-DIXIE
- checkstands
- WHIRRS
- Grampspopsicle
- FIREBREATHERS
- Soggybottom
- shit
- Hickville
- antsier
- Cadillac
- Samford
- babysit
- Skynard-loving
- pissed
- Unfazed
- ass-whupping
- FLASHFORWARD
- unshittable
- AHH! OHH!
- USO
- vampy
What’s more, this entire list showed up twice. Good job, Final Draft.