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The Deleted "Spectacular Now" Scene That Was Too Extreme To Put On Screen

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BuzzFeed - You might be disturbed by how charmed you still are by Miles Teller. View Video › In adapting Tim Tharp's hit novel The Spectacular Now for the screen, the biggest challenge was turning its unreliable and flawed (though sympathetic) high-school narrator, Sutter Keely, into a protagonist that audiences could really get behind. Having the ever-charming 26-year-old Miles Teller in the role was a huge help, but it was still a difficult needle to thread."If we did our job, then the reasons you love Sutter when the story begins are not why you love him at the end," Michael Weber, The Spectacular Now's co-screenwriter told BuzzFeed. "He goes from being the class clown and the life of the party to a thoughtful young adult, more cognizant of the repercussions of his actions."Between the film's critical praise — a 92% score on Rotten Tomatoes — and the fact that Weber and co-writer Scott Neustadter were nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, it seems they pulle

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