What you're describing is why I never had any desire to write screenplays.
I was in the Greensboro fiction writing program. Fred Chappell was my advisor, and everyone knew about the financial sacrifices involved in writing what you WANT to write, and accepted them.
Did you ever see a rather short-lived animated show called THE CRITIC? (it had Jon Lovitz doing the main character's voice.) My husband is a film critic, so we were two of perhaps ten people in this country who watched it regularly when it was on. One of the best episodes had The Critic trying to sell a screenplay in Hollywood, and at one point being shown a Hollywood Executive's (Billy Crystal's voice) secret stash of brilliant screenplays That-Must-NEVER-be filmed. The prize of the collection was a witty, beautifully written, incisive lesbian love story kept in an underground vault and surrounded by motion detectors.
Does Ms. Kessler have any statistics at all to back up her thesis?
I mean, REALLY. She threw away a promising career in Hollywood because her professors kept telling her that the audience is timid, stupid, racist, sexist, and homophobic -- which is patently obvious to anyone who attended public school by the time s/he reached sophomore year? Would she still fly in the face of what her professors told her if she was making a film with her own money? I don't mean to be rude, but her rant was one of the most unintentionally funny things I've read in a coon's age.
Well, what would you accept as "statistics?" Statistics on what? The number of scenes in movies where two women talk about something other than the male lead? Do you know of a study that exists?
How many films can you name that include two women talking about something other than the male lead?
Paft, this guy left a similar comment on the site, addressing me directly as "Miss" in what we could only interpret as an attempt to belittle me. We sent his comment straight to the spam folder, as it matched the pattern of many trollish comments we've received over the years.
Given that he is allowed to assert that it's "patently obvious" how awful the audience is without providing statistics to back this up, you may be wasting your time trying to reason with him. ;)
Oh, dear.therealstainSeptember 3 2008, 07:12:40 UTC
So you've decided to (a) accuse me of being rude by floating this idea that addressing you as "miss" is "belittling", (b) label me a "troll", (c) duck the question, and (d) do your best to destroy all evidence that your thesis was ever questioned in the first place.
If I wanted to belittle you, I could do a much better job of it, miss. :-)
Given that he is allowed to assert that it's "patently obvious" how awful the audience is without providing statistics to back this up, you may be wasting your time trying to reason with him. ;)
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I was in the Greensboro fiction writing program. Fred Chappell was my advisor, and everyone knew about the financial sacrifices involved in writing what you WANT to write, and accepted them.
Did you ever see a rather short-lived animated show called THE CRITIC? (it had Jon Lovitz doing the main character's voice.) My husband is a film critic, so we were two of perhaps ten people in this country who watched it regularly when it was on. One of the best episodes had The Critic trying to sell a screenplay in Hollywood, and at one point being shown a Hollywood Executive's (Billy Crystal's voice) secret stash of brilliant screenplays That-Must-NEVER-be filmed. The prize of the collection was a witty, beautifully written, incisive lesbian love story kept in an underground vault and surrounded by motion detectors.
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I mean, REALLY. She threw away a promising career in Hollywood because her professors kept telling her that the audience is timid, stupid, racist, sexist, and homophobic -- which is patently obvious to anyone who attended public school by the time s/he reached sophomore year? Would she still fly in the face of what her professors told her if she was making a film with her own money? I don't mean to be rude, but her rant was one of the most unintentionally funny things I've read in a coon's age.
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How many films can you name that include two women talking about something other than the male lead?
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Given that he is allowed to assert that it's "patently obvious" how awful the audience is without providing statistics to back this up, you may be wasting your time trying to reason with him. ;)
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If I wanted to belittle you, I could do a much better job of it, miss. :-)
Given that he is allowed to assert that it's "patently obvious" how awful the audience is without providing statistics to back this up, you may be wasting your time trying to reason with him. ;)
Ah, ah, ah. I asked you for proof first.
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