Vince Vaughn credited as playing...
Alan
- Scott: It is very clear that this guy is beyond lost and has no clue how to navigate his own actions.
- Sam: Uh...
- Scott: And what I like is he doesn't understand how the real world works...
- Alan: Right.
- Scott: ...and he's too afraid to show himself to the real world, and these are the seeds of his own undoing.
- Sam: Oh, I don't...
- Scott: He's a child. He's wandering alone in the woods... right?... Lost in the ether of his own neuroses. And this is powerful stuff.
- Alan: Yeah. He's saying you wrote the perfect pussy.
- Sam: The perfect pussy?
- Alan: Yeah, the perfect pussy.
- Scott: Now, around chapter 12... and I'm sorry to interrupt... but it's at this point in the story that it's pretty obvious that I completely side with the girl.
- Alan: See, for me, it's more around chapters 10 and 11.
- Sam: How can you say that? There's no real connection between them. It's not his fault.
- Alan: They were in love. He just wasn't cognizant enough to see it.
- Scott: Exactly, and now all she can do is accept the fact that he's completely inept.
- Alan: That's right. He had it. He lost it because he suffocated her with his own fear. In the end, I mean, it's obvious that it can only be one thing, and that's that he's destined to be alone. It's really honest, and it's really simple.
- Scott: Uh-huh.
- Alan: He's cut everyone out. He's gonna continue to do that. He's gonna get over his issues with his mom and all that stuff.
- Scott: He's gonna spend the rest of his life crippled by the fact that he wasn't able to show her love.
- Alan: And if he did wake up, it would be a lot of substances and a lot of years later.
- Scott: Mm-hmm.
- Alan: And at that point, she would have banged half of Manhattan, so he wouldn't want her anyway, so romance or no romance, it's... it's over with.
- Scott: Yeah.