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Knocked Up: The Shooting Script
The official screenplay book tie-in to the hilarious slacker comedy from Universal Pictures by Judd Apatow ( The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Freaks and Geeks ) about a very unexpected pregnancy.
They say that opposites attract. For slacker Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) and career girl Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl), that'scertainly the case—at least for one intoxicated evening. Two months and several pregnancy tests later, Ben and Alison go through a hysterically funny, anxious, and heartwarming journey that leads to huge laughs.
Featuring the complete script, plus commentary by filmmaker Judd Apatow and actress Charlyne Yi (who plays Jodi in the movie), stills from the film, full cast and crew credits, and an article by Sarah Vance that appeared in Script magazine, this Newmarket Shooting Script® book will be irresistible to the growing legion of Judd Apatow fans.
They say that opposites attract. For slacker Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) and career girl Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl), that'scertainly the case—at least for one intoxicated evening. Two months and several pregnancy tests later, Ben and Alison go through a hysterically funny, anxious, and heartwarming journey that leads to huge laughs.
Featuring the complete script, plus commentary by filmmaker Judd Apatow and actress Charlyne Yi (who plays Jodi in the movie), stills from the film, full cast and crew credits, and an article by Sarah Vance that appeared in Script magazine, this Newmarket Shooting Script® book will be irresistible to the growing legion of Judd Apatow fans.
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176 pages, Paperback
First published November 12, 2007
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Judd Apatow
22 books285 followersJudd Apatow is an Emmy Award-winning American film producer, screenwriter, director and former stand-up comedian. He is best known for producing a distinct series of critically and commercially successful comedy-style films, including Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Talladega Nights, Knocked Up, Superbad, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Step Brothers, Pineapple Express, and Funny People. He is the founder of Apatow Productions, a film production company that also developed the critically acclaimed cult television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared.
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June 25, 2025
Knocked Up written and directed by Judd Apatow, a very good director and writer, and an excellent human being, as far as I know, although Knocked Up is not one of the best comedies you will have seen – not on the same level with Life of Brian, King of Comedy, Withnail and I, or a number of other magnum opera about which you can read on my blogs https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... -it is quite good entertainment and I must say I have enjoyed it to the end, lately, I drop out before the middle
8 out of 10
Seth Rogen is very good in the leading role of Ben Stone, the name has been chosen on purpose, for this character uses marijuana, I think his father said to him, when he was a teenager that he must not use pills, what else, maybe shots, but if it grows from the earth, it is fine, words to that effect, ergo, smoking joints is ok
- Alas, I have never had the chance, so I have no idea what being stone is like
In fact, I did once, this fellow from the club had some left, gave it to me, but ignorant as I have been, I could not make ‘joints’ good enough to be smoked, they had no impact, so I am still a (more than) 40 Year Old Virgin https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... in regards to any drugs
Ben Stone is a nerd, he is part of a funny group: thespians that we like Jonah Hill (in the days when he was overweight, now I think he is very thin) Jason Segel, and they work on site that is focused on the nudity from main stream movies, and they offer cinephiles, or perverts, data on where they can see Meg Ryan and others au naturel
It will turn out that others had made the same thing, and had launched it earlier, nevertheless, the point is that Ben is not the most intrepid, successful young man, funny and kind as he is, he had received about 15,000 dollars as compensation for being hit by a Canada Post truck, but he has only a few hundred left
- With his math, he calculates he has a couple of years left, a good joke
One night, he meets this stupendous woman, Alison Scott aka Katherine Heigl, who is out celebrating a promotion at the media network Entertainment or E!, with her sister, Debbie played by Leslie Mann (who is the real-life spouse of Judd Apatow, just like her kids in the movie are their real children) perhaps too much
Debbie is married to Pete aka Paul Rudd, and their side story will be developed in This Is 40 https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... where Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd are married on the screen, where they have the same (real for Apatow and wife) children and face some issues
Alison and Ben dance in the club where they meet, they get drunk, then she calls him at her house, where they have sex, she wants him to put a condom, but then, when he takes too long to fit it, she says ‘get on with it’, or something of the kind, which he interprets as ‘forget about it’ and so no protection results in the title
‘Forget about it’ was cliché in Donnie Brasco https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... wherein Johnny Depp aka the hero & under cover agent explains how the mobsters use this catch word for everything, in the case of Ben and Alison forgetting about the rubber has consequences
Somehow, notwithstanding their major differences – you could even think of that silly, but then they all are, proverb with ‘opposites attract’ – the two try to have a decent, close relationship, once the young woman decides to keep the baby, abortion was mentioned, for back then, it was still legal and protected in America, with MAGA, things change
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
8 out of 10
Seth Rogen is very good in the leading role of Ben Stone, the name has been chosen on purpose, for this character uses marijuana, I think his father said to him, when he was a teenager that he must not use pills, what else, maybe shots, but if it grows from the earth, it is fine, words to that effect, ergo, smoking joints is ok
- Alas, I have never had the chance, so I have no idea what being stone is like
In fact, I did once, this fellow from the club had some left, gave it to me, but ignorant as I have been, I could not make ‘joints’ good enough to be smoked, they had no impact, so I am still a (more than) 40 Year Old Virgin https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... in regards to any drugs
Ben Stone is a nerd, he is part of a funny group: thespians that we like Jonah Hill (in the days when he was overweight, now I think he is very thin) Jason Segel, and they work on site that is focused on the nudity from main stream movies, and they offer cinephiles, or perverts, data on where they can see Meg Ryan and others au naturel
It will turn out that others had made the same thing, and had launched it earlier, nevertheless, the point is that Ben is not the most intrepid, successful young man, funny and kind as he is, he had received about 15,000 dollars as compensation for being hit by a Canada Post truck, but he has only a few hundred left
- With his math, he calculates he has a couple of years left, a good joke
One night, he meets this stupendous woman, Alison Scott aka Katherine Heigl, who is out celebrating a promotion at the media network Entertainment or E!, with her sister, Debbie played by Leslie Mann (who is the real-life spouse of Judd Apatow, just like her kids in the movie are their real children) perhaps too much
Debbie is married to Pete aka Paul Rudd, and their side story will be developed in This Is 40 https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... where Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd are married on the screen, where they have the same (real for Apatow and wife) children and face some issues
Alison and Ben dance in the club where they meet, they get drunk, then she calls him at her house, where they have sex, she wants him to put a condom, but then, when he takes too long to fit it, she says ‘get on with it’, or something of the kind, which he interprets as ‘forget about it’ and so no protection results in the title
‘Forget about it’ was cliché in Donnie Brasco https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... wherein Johnny Depp aka the hero & under cover agent explains how the mobsters use this catch word for everything, in the case of Ben and Alison forgetting about the rubber has consequences
Somehow, notwithstanding their major differences – you could even think of that silly, but then they all are, proverb with ‘opposites attract’ – the two try to have a decent, close relationship, once the young woman decides to keep the baby, abortion was mentioned, for back then, it was still legal and protected in America, with MAGA, things change
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
June 12, 2012
One of the perks of getting an MFA in screenwriting is that one gets to read literary works like this and one calls it research.
About the script itself. I found it funny but most of the jokes worked better in screen than on these pages (e.g. the DeNiro impersonation dinner).
About the script itself. I found it funny but most of the jokes worked better in screen than on these pages (e.g. the DeNiro impersonation dinner).
July 9, 2015
This is ridiculous, in a good way. The premise of this story is so real time with the loser druggy turned accidental father and how he grows as a person to move beyond just himself to having take care of someone else. Funny story, realistic, and good concept.
August 24, 2015
Really hate the man-baby character of Ben.
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