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Jennifer M. Wood<\/b> and Mental_Floss<\/a> <\/b>present 14 Empowering Facts About 9 to 5<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. <\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n Though it\u2019s ranked number 74 on the American Film Institute\u2019s list of the 100 Funniest American Movies of All Time, 9 to 5<\/em> didn\u2019t start out as a comedy. “At first we were going to make a drama,\u201d Fonda explained. \u201cBut any way we did it, it seemed too preachy, too much of a feminist line. I’d wanted to work with Lily [Tomlin] for some time, and it suddenly occurred to [producer] Bruce [Gilbert] and me that we should make it a comedy. It remains a \u2018labor film,\u2019 but I hope of a new kind, different from The Grapes of Wrath<\/em> or Salt of the Earth<\/em>. We took out a lot of stuff that was filmed, even stuff the director, Colin Higgins, thought worked but which I asked to have taken out. I’m just super-sensitive to anything that smacks of the soapbox or lecturing the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI had written a very dark comedy in which the secretaries actually tried to kill the boss, although they tried to kill him in sort of funny ways,\u201d screenwriter Patricia Resnick told Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cOriginally, Jane had been concerned that would be too dark. I screened an old Charlie Chaplin film called Monsieur Verdoux<\/em> for her. In it, Chaplin’s wife is blind and he has a child. He’s kind of a Blackbeard, he romances a series of woman through the course of the movie and murders them in order to get money and support his family. It is a comedy, but at the end they hang him. I turned to Jane at the end of the movie and tears were rolling down her cheeks\u2014but she was concerned the women wouldn’t be sympathetic enough. I said, \u2018He really killed all these women and you’re crying. I just want them to try! They won’t be successful.\u2019 And she said OK. But then when Colin came in, he was very influenced by Warner Bros. cartoons and things like that, and so their attempts to kill him became the fantasy scenes, and he made it a much broader comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n Parton may have been a Hollywood newcomer, but she was savvy. She agreed to take the part in 9 to 5<\/em>, but only if she could write the theme song as well. Fonda agreed, and Parton wrote the song while the movie was filming. In 1981, she earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song for \u201c9 to 5.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jennifer M. Wood and Mental_Floss present 14 Empowering Facts About 9 to 5. Here are three of my favorites… 2. IT WAS ORIGINALLY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14103,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101\/revisions\/14103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
2. IT WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO BE A DRAMA.<\/span><\/h4>\n
3. IT WAS A BLACK COMEDY BEFORE IT WAS A BROAD COMEDY.<\/span><\/h4>\n
8. PARTON WOULD ONLY STAR IN THE FILM IF SHE COULD WRITE THE THEME SONG.<\/span><\/h4>\n