Director Brian DePalma hated the finale speech "The Decency Speech" that Tom Wolfe had originally included in the Rolling Stone version of this story. He found it completely boring, but everyone including the studio wanted it since without it, the film had no real ending or conclusion. Michael Cristofer had to hastily reincorporate it into his screenplay primarily because the big "Sword of Justice" sequence that takes place outside the courtroom after Sherman is freed and takes a sword from the statue and starts swinging it at the press reporters was twas filmed and deleted from the final cut of the film. This scene acted as the resolution and gave Morgan Freeman's role a little more power than what was in Wolf's novel.

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