- published: 13 Oct 2011
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Brent White is an American film editor with over 10 editing credits on feature films dating from 1993. Since 2004, White has worked on six successive comedy films produced or co-produced by Judd Apatow, and directed by Apatow or Adam McKay.
White's work as an editor on the films directed by Apatow and McKay is unusual because of the importance of the actors' improvisations. Eric Melin's review of the film Talladega Nights (2006) focuses on this aspect of White's editing, "the MVP of the movie is most definitely editor Brent White. Just as he did with 2004's "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," White had to choose the best scenes from hours and hours of wildly different takes to fashion together something with a narrative arc that resembles a movie. It can't be easy work, but he had a little more story to work with than he did in the uneven "Anchorman." Minor continuity errors be damned, "Talladega Nights" is one funny film."
The editing of Knocked Up (2007) was described in a feature article by Stephen Rodrick in The New York Times. Rodrick emphasizes the many different versions of the film that were created before deciding on the version that was released, "By the end of last month, when the final edit was done, I had seen five or six versions of Knocked Up. While the arc of the film remained the same, seemingly every line had been traded in and out..."
I lost everything that’s good, When I walked away from you
Did I go and do the wrong thing this time,
Tryin' hard just to bite my tongue, So I’m gonna turn and run,
I'm Gonna go out the door, won't come back no more
I guess it's over
I don’t want to fake it anymore
So I'll just keep walking out the door
I drive away now I'm all alone, 'Cause I had to be the one
the one who just could not be wrong.
Walking in to this empty house, 'Cause Inside I'm empty now.
I see you smilin' back at me through that frame
And I guess it's over
Nothing will ever feel the same
And I am the only one to blame
(Bridge)
But tomorrow is a lonely day, there may be another way around it
If you'd come back to me,
We don't need a reason why or some alibi, You know I'm sorry
I lost everything that’s good, When I walked away from you
Did I go and do the wrong thing this time,