History Trivia / BeauIsAfraid

-->"...I would say that it’s the film I’m proudest of. I think it’s the best filmmaking that I’ve done. I love the film, and I really hope that people continue to find it."

** Grace and Roger's son doesn't exist in the script, so Toni doesn't have angst about her parents treating Beau as a ReplacementGoldfish. [[spoiler: Her death by drinking paint, which happens in the garage, is portrayed more as a self-destructive impulse than a suicide, since an early scene (that doesn't exist in the movie) shows her and her friend inhaling the fumes of a car's exhaust to "get fucked"]].

** Once at Roger and Grace's house, Beau is in no hurry to leave (since the funeral already happened) and he even calls his therapist, who advises him to stay with them. The script describes a few extra scenes, including a montage of Beau living with them as a happy family and Grace taking Beau to another therapist.

** In the script, the Orphans of the Forest are a murderous cult that brainwashes orphans by making them believe that certain celebrities killed their parents, turning them into assassins, unlike the movie where they are just a weird, but benevolent theater troupe.
** The ending in the script is more open and comedic, since there's no [[spoiler: trial]] and Beau gets into the ocean after taking the boat, coming across a cruise ship where Michelle Obama (the target the Orphans assigned to him) is conducting an exercise program for obese children. Beau screams in frustration and the screen cuts to black as he enter his ManchurianAgent mode.

** Grace and Roger's son doesn't exist in the script, so Toni doesn't has an angst about her parents treating Beau as a ReplacementGoldfish. [[spoiler: Her death by drinking paint, which happens in the garage, is portrayed more as a self-destructive impulse than a suicide, since an early scene (that doesn't exist in the movie) shows her and her friend inhaling the fumes of a car's exhaust to "get fucked"]].

** Once at Roger and Grace's house, Beau is in no hurry to leave (since the funeral already happened) and he even calls his therapist, how advises him to stay with them. The script describes a few extra scenes, including a montage of Beau living with them as a happy family and Grace taking Beau to another therapist.

** The ending in the script is more open and comedic, since there,s no [[spoiler: trial]] and Beau gets into the ocean after taking the boat, coming across a cruise ship where Michelle Obama (the target the Orphans assigned to him) is conducting an exercise program for obese children. Beau screams in frustration and the screen cuts to black as he enter his ManchurianAgent mode.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the 2014 script, the Orphans of the Forest were a murderous cult that brainwashes orphans by making them believe that certain celebrities killed their parents, turning them into assassins. In the movie they are just a weird, but benevolent theater troupe.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $35 million. Box office, $10.8 million. The budget Aster was granted for this long, deeply personal, and [[AudienceAlienatingPremise extremely weird]] movie would have likely required it to gross even more than ''Film/{{Midsommar}}'' in order to just break even; it failed to make a fourth of that film's gross by the end of its theatrical run, essentially making the film a total loss for A24, who lost $35 million. Though it was soon revealed that Creator/AriAster and Creator/{{A24}} both [[DoingItForTheArt expected this but didn't mind]].

* DoingItForTheArt: Both Creator/AriAster and Creator/{{A24}} knew that the film's bizarre concept and structure would not fare well for general audiences or even some of their audiences and very much expected it to bomb at the box office. Ari's main goal was sharing the full story of the film to the world.
* InMemoriam: The film is dedicated to Billy Mayo, who played Sidney in Ari Aster's short ''Film/TheStrangeThingAboutTheJohnsons'', and who originally played Beau in the 2011 short film. He passed away in 2019.