re: How much improvisation takes place with movie scripts?

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The scene where they are older and standing on a crate of bottles as punishment for one of them stealing the pie, was written as a single shot with the camera just circling both actors speaking the lines. Martin's toe fell in one of the bottles and the rest was adlibbed, even their laughing at the line. They kept it in and didn't reshoot because it worked.

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