Famous Unscripted Lines That Will Make You Look At These Classic Movie Scenes In An Entirely Different Way
“You Can’t Handle the Truth!”- Jack Nicholson As Colonel Nathan R. Jessup in A Few Good Men
The screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is one of Hollywood’s best, but one of the most famous lines in his 1992 drama “A Few Good Men” was cooked on the spot by Jack Nicholson. Portraying the spiteful ‘Colonel Nathan R. Jessup,’ Nicholson decided to change the original line in the screenplay—”You already have the truth”—to a more impactful “I want the truth!”
In the end, the improvised edit made for a more tense, memorable, and fitting scene. Known for “The West Wing” and “The Social Network,” we’re pretty sure Sorkin enjoyed the way Nicholson took his well-written scene to a whole another level with a brilliant bit of acting ingenuity.
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