Teenagers, geeze.. (I have 2.5 of them at home !)
to any grownup, that is a rather naive thing to say
Lets assume that your a prodigy on the order of a Mozart. Your life would look like this:
- Between 4 and 7 years old your family toured around Europe with you as part of a Child Prodigy show, where you dazzled everyone with your brilliant ability to direct screenplays.
- At 8 years old, your write your first screenplay.
- More touring and practice..
- At 17 your were hired by a Government run film board to write and direct screenplays
- At age 19 you should still be employed as a writer\director? Is that your current situation?
At 19 Mozart still worked for the Salzburg court as a "court" musician.
So, unless your claiming to be a prodigy on the order of Mozart, I don't quite think you have enough experience to qualify as a Master. (Which is a ranking by the way that qualifies you to TEACH journeymen)
That said, you have some great points, but they are all a bit naive..
Oh by the way, any psychologist will tell you that your attitude is completely developmentally appropriate, most 19 year old kids feel this same way.
Psychologist, my
therapist believes I've lived an extensive life style, that many adults won't see until their later hours. It is simply a difference of opinions, the key fuel for a forum, no?
To point out a phrase that is to suggest i am naive within the context of the conversation that was purely for me to respond, again, the basis of any conversation, is a common cliche of
adult to child. To say i am not naive, maybe from the mouth of a high school student, tiring his parents to lure the onslaught of old-age, if that guy says, 'I am a young adult, i am not naive', then yes, he's naive as hell.
'Your life would look like this'
Explain this, is there also a template on how to become a
prodigy? Or a string of tales and recognition that would suggest somebody is? Or is it merely impossible to excellerate knowledge and life experience as young as nineteen? If this is so, we're now entering the debate of intelligence, and what era has progressed the most within it's time. To quote to me the lifestyle of Mozart, is quite defensive, i didn't suggest i was a 'Master', but the craft of screenwriting is to posses the power to allude, to create that illusion of life, no? It is more an interpretation of life than it is to relentlessly follow a template, and precariously live through a life printed on a page, from somebody who has already lived. But to say as an adult, that the value of living as fuel for inspiration is ill-important besides templates, and 'screenwriting for dummies'. Is, and always will be beyond me.
'And in screenwriting you must learn to paint pictures and illicit emotions with words and write dialogue that rings true'
You learn to master that through communication, through living, I applaud you if the pages you study speak back to you in golden tongue.
What would i say to somebody writing their first screenplay, firstly, learn the structure of writing a screenplay to a necessary standard through either method you see fit, reading screenplays as i have done in the hundreds, guarantee the standard is professional enough that it is eligible to distribute to possible funders, cast and crew. What would i say next, continue to pursue a fourth, fifth, sixth, screenplay aid?
Let me ask you this, if you where 19 again, would you live, absorbing the world, knowing and trusting in your capabilities as a screenwriter, or would you simply read a 'How to write a screenplay'?
@Wheatgrinder, i am thankful to debate with you.
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and we can jam...Just to clarify my Gibson isn't named Mel. I do have some degree of pride.
And your presumption that I have not yet mastered the craft is exactly right. It is an ongoing process of study and practice, success and failure. And I've been writing longer than you have been alive. I wrote my first feature script before you were born.
