So his life is a charade, yet a scenario he willingly plays out. But if you live in this sort of imaginary world and your 'ideal' falls apart, you're left with absolutely no foundation and you get really blown." In contrast, Denholm Elliott as Uncle Elliot Templeton is a man who knows just what he is doing: living in a dream world, mixing only with the very grand society people in order to give himself an equally grand sense of importance and security. He thinks that by living up to some sort of ideal, then he'll be happy. Catherine 's character is someone you fall in love with who returns that love but to the extent that it makes you miserable." Murray continued: "Gray Haturin, played by James Keach, is someone whose life is pretty much planned for him and there are certain things he's been told to want: a pretty wife, kids, a nice house, money. You can really love her but you know not to expect much in return because she's not capable of giving back what she gets. He said: "Theresa 's character is the self-destructive aspect.
In Bill Murray's estimation, the four characters around his Larry Darrell character, who function largely to give him focus, are all aspects of the same person. It was important that this script not be written within the sterile confines of a four-walled office." We went on a kind of search ourselves, not unlike that which Larry Darrell experienced. Given the nature of this film, we wanted to go out and meet people so we'd be constantly reminded of why we were making this film and who was ultimately going to see it.'' Byrum continued: "This film is about rejecting comfort, rejecting materialism, looking for self-definition. That works fine for them but we wanted to find a different process. I believe that good things come from difficult conditions and no matter how the script turned out, at least we'd have the experience of trying to concentrate on one thing while being distracted all the time." Byrum agreed: "We thought too many films today are written by guys sitting in air-conditioned offices with bronze windows and directors who look at story boards and video tapes of other guy's films. We drove across the country from one coast to the other and saw some amazing stuff. "So we decided to start working under the most difficult conditions we could find: bars, street corners, places where there was a lot of activity. "I was very flattered when John said he wanted me to work with him on the script because he has a reputation of not letting anyone touch his stuff," said Murray. Because 'The Razor's Edge' is the story of a man on an epic search, actor Bill Murray and director John Byrum decided that they, too, should be mobile while they wrote the script.
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