Editing Boxing Helena (section)

==Production==
Producer Philippe Caland came up with the idea, but wanted a woman to write it, and so approached Lynch after she gave a poetry reading.<ref name="Vice">{{cite web|last1=Webber|first1=Jason|title=More Than David's Daughter: An Interview with Jennifer Lynch|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/more-than-davids-daughter-an-interview-with-jennifer-lynch/|website=Vice|date=September 25, 2012 |access-date=18 November 2016}}</ref> At first, Lynch declined to get involved, reportedly telling him "Well, that sounds kind of terrible."<ref name="Vice"/> But Caland was eventually able to convince her to work on it. In writing, Lynch was inspired by some elements from her own childhood, telling ''Vice'' that being born with [[club feet]], and her grandmother owning a ''[[Venus de Milo]]'' replica, influenced her insight into the characters:<ref name="Vice"/>

<blockquote>It always struck me the way people looked at the Venus. They didn't see her as broken, they saw her as beautiful. And it really made a huge impact on me. I thought I was broken and that maybe someday someone would find me beautiful. So this idea of a damaged boy who was in an obsessive situation who would try to recreate from his own view the one thing that didn't hit him or abandon him was this armless, beautiful woman. And therefore in a dream recreate this obsessive thing where we take from one another until we are the size and shape that we think the other person should be for us.<ref name="Vice"/></blockquote>

[[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] was slated to play Helena, but shortly before filming was to begin in January 1991 she dropped out, halting the production.<ref name="Insandout">{{cite news|last1=Thompson|first1=Anne|title=FILM; The Ins and Outs of 'Boxing Helena'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/05/movies/film-the-ins-and-outs-of-boxing-helena.html |website=The New York Times|date=July 5, 1992|access-date=18 November 2016}}</ref> The next month, in an attempt to salvage the film, Lynch met with [[Kim Basinger]] about playing Helena. Basinger agreed, but closer to the new filming date she began requesting what ''The New York Times'' called "major script revisions", which according to producer Mazzocone amounted to making Helena "less of a bitch". After the production failed to make the changes to Basinger's satisfaction she also quit the picture.<ref name="Insandout"/>

Legal battles involving both stars then ensued.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Unarmed And Dangerous: Jennifer Lynch loses Madonna, Basinger, gains Fenn for ''Boxing Helena'' |author=Jane Birnbaum |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=May 22, 1992 |url=https://ew.com/article/1992/05/22/boxing-helena-experiences-star-dropouts/ |access-date=November 1, 2010 |archive-date=April 21, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421055154/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,310562,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Eventually Basinger was the subject of an adverse jury verdict for over $8.1 million,<ref>{{cite news |title= Basinger Tells Court Why She Refused Script |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 9, 1993 |url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-09-me-896-story.html |access-date=October 24, 2010 |first=Robert W. |last=Welkos}}</ref> which bankrupted her. The verdict was set aside on appeal in 1994,<ref>{{cite court |litigants=Main Line Pictures, Inc. v. Basinger |vol= |reporter= |opinion=No. B077508 |court=[[California Courts of Appeal|2 Dist.]] |date=1994-09-22 |url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1852173.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Basinger Bankruptcy Puts Georgia Bank on the Block |agency= Bloomberg Business News |work=Chicago Tribune |date=September 20, 1994 |url= https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/09/20/basinger-bankruptcy-puts-georgia-bank-on-the-block/|access-date=October 24, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= Damages Against Kim Basinger in Film Suit Voided: Courts: Appellate justices find the judge gave ambiguous instructions to jury in 'Boxing Helena' case. Verdict of $8.1&nbsp;million threw film star into bankruptcy |work=Los Angeles Times |date=September 23, 1994 |url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-23-me-42074-story.html |access-date=October 24, 2010 |first1=Judy |last1=Brennan |first2=Edward J. |last2=Boyer}}</ref> but Basinger later settled for $3.8 million.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://amarillo.com/stories/100997/kim.html |title=For Kim Basinger, the 'fire ball' is out – and Veronica Lake is in |access-date=November 23, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820201944/http://amarillo.com/stories/100997/kim.html |archive-date=August 20, 2017 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="latimes" />

Meanwhile, Fenn, who had previously worked with Lynch's father on ''[[Twin Peaks]]'', was cast as Helena in December 1991.<ref name="Insandout"/> By this time a third major star, [[Ed Harris]], had also backed out of the film due to the ever-increasing delays, telling ''The New York Times'', "I needed to get on with my life."<ref name="Insandout"/>

===Music===
The score heard during the scene where Helena showers in a fountain while a party crowd watches was originally composed by [[Graeme Revell]] and based on the "Love Theme" used sparsely elsewhere in the film, with vocals by Bobbi Page. At the producers' request, "The Fountain Song", written and performed by Wendy Levy, replaced Revell's score in the DVD and subsequent releases.