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Apparently there's quite a bit of room between the two factions in this thread, because I can easily agree with many of the arguments of the more "pro-piracy" side without going so far as to assert that piracy is good for Hollywood. It's clearly not good for Hollywood. I don't see IP piracy as...

Yes and no. The little secret content distributors don't want you to know is that in many ways, torrents are a technically superior method of distribution. In short, it's more convenient. You download a small file from a website with one click. A few hours or a couple days later, and the...

Just some thoughts here. 1) think of piracy/anti-piracy as an arms race, because it is. There is no "so I can sleep at night" fix here. It's an ongoing battle. Episodic content has an advantage here, because distributors can change their protection measures on the fly, and take advantage of...

Thanks. My "to buy" books list is getting loooooong. :)

Okay, you got me. It's the evil man conspiracy keeping the sisters down. But don't cry to me when some scientist discovers that men have x more cc's of grey matter in the area MRIs show is crucial to directing. Or whatever. And certainly don't wonder aloud why the scientist was looking for...

Because anyone with a non-nihilistic attitude hates it when crap succeeds?

Discouraging is in the eye of the beholder. One man's downer is another man's reality check. I tend to need reality checks. :)

I was kind of thinking of coaches as a given. I mean that in the theoretical sense, btw. This is all just me wondering about this and that, I won't be making any movies for a long time yet. Again, good advice no doubt, but I'm talking theory atm. E.g., assume you can pay people, even better...

I read the opposite of what Gonzo said; that they offered him the chance to surrender and he refused. The good news is, he's dead. The bad news is, Pakistan's been hiding him all this time. He was like a mile from Pakistan's version of West Point, right in the heart of one of their biggest...

Wikiquotes is what you need. But take them with a grain of salt, just glancing over the first few Bond films I see loads of small errors. The World Is Not Enough: Christmas Jones: I don't know..but the world's greatest terrorist running around with 6 kilos of weapons-grade plutonium can't be...

If memory serves, Lloyd meets his unrequited love's ex-husband and enters a dream sequence where he pulls out a gun and blows the ex-husband away. The best in the movie of course is the Kung-Fu waiter and the heart in the doggie bag sequence. My favorite is the one in True Lies where Arnold...

I'm curious about what it takes to train actors. Imagine you had to use "real" people and train them yourself. Say, you were limited to using only real rodeo stars for your rodeo film, real firefighters for your firefighter film, whatever. I know, it makes way more sense to use actors, but...

One of my favorite generalizations is that they almost always break down at the personal level. I wish they taught more logic in schools because people are trained to respond to generalization with anecdotes, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense (not talking about you here, just making...

Thanks. :)

Er, yes, I think it's okay, you having to put up with what the vast majority of taxpayers have to put up with. I see no reason government employees should have it better than the private sector when they're on our dime.

Man, learning the littlest thing here gives me gooseflesh. What is it about movies? Let's talk about hooking the viewer. I'm only thinking of the obvious - compelling stories. Big motivations. Life and Death, or big stakes. One thing I do remember is a piece I read somewhere that...

Just kidding. Thanks for the tips.

Unions are great in theory. Gives labor the organization they need to get leverage on capital and management. But in practice... I read somewhere that unions have had the best success with labor pools that are hardassed and skilled. Like miners. They can go underground and work all day in...

Sorry if this is too far OT, but, does SAG have any teeth? Do they punish "rogue actors" or anything? Sorry for the dumb question but I have no clue why anyone would involve SAG if they didn't have to. Never mind, I should have read the thread first.

Try comic books. You can get digital versions and cut and paste shots around. Check for artists who know their narrative art, like Frank Miller. A good narrative artist can practically storyboard your whole movie for you if you have enough material. You'll learn how to frame shots - or at...