Editing Indecent Proposal (section)

===Writing===
Of the script, screenwriter [[Amy Holden Jones]] said there were multiple third-act changes to the script, made primarily by men.<ref name="NYPost">{{cite news |last1=Stewart |first1=Sara |title=The truth behind the sexy scenes of '90s thriller 'Indecent Proposal' |url=https://nypost.com/2023/04/05/indecent-proposal-popular-1990s-erotic-thriller-turns-30/ |access-date=15 June 2023 |work=[[New York Post]] |date=April 5, 2023 |archive-date=August 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805100056/https://nypost.com/2023/04/05/indecent-proposal-popular-1990s-erotic-thriller-turns-30/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Jones initially wrote the ending with Diana leaving Gage of her own accord, without prompting from Gage.<ref name=Short>{{Cite news |last=Kempley |first=Rita |date=April 18, 1993 |title=Selling Women Short |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1993/04/18/selling-women-short/c98de2f9-4c9b-472a-87dd-d68ce34d8671/ |access-date=June 15, 2023 |archive-date=November 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171106193216/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1993/04/18/selling-women-short/c98de2f9-4c9b-472a-87dd-d68ce34d8671/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Jones said: "I always had a lot of trouble with the movie after [David and Diana] split up. The men in charge, and particularly Redford, decided to make [Gage] very sympathetic. In the original script, it was a clear journey where she came to realize that she was his next acquisition. There were four or five people that Redford cycled through to work on his character. In my draft, what she said to him was that you can’t buy love, and then she left him. He had that changed, because Robert Redford couldn’t be left."<ref name=NYPost/>

Jones added: "I thought [Diana] should leave both men at the end. I brought it up several times [in studio meetings], including once the movie was [[greenlit]]. And that was basically laughed at. No one would consider it, really."<ref name=NYPost/>

[[William Goldman]] says he was brought in to work on the script after [[John Cusack]] had turned it down. "They couldn’t get anyone to do it," he said. "I wrote a draft and I don’t think they changed anything. I don’t know why the actors decided to do it or didn’t do it, but it was an enormous success so that’s good for me."<ref>{{cite book|last=Cleese|first= John|title=Professor at Large: the Cornell Years|publisher=Cornell University Press|year= 2018|chapter=Screenwriting Seminar: John Cleese and Bill Goldman October 14, 2000}}</ref>