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"If you’re writing The Girls’ Movie, replace “explosions” with “kisses” and “saving the world” with “settling for a man slightly less handsome but nicer than that finance guy.”

" And I will only exploit innocent, stupid people’s dreams for pussy."

This is golden article. You can read wordplay columns where same thing is said in a more polite way
 
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victortiti89 said:
http://delicioustacos.com/2013/03/07/how-to-be-a-screenwriter-in-hollywood/
Just found it by chance...
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My first impression? The writer seems arrogant. He seems like a loudmouth who needs to feel significant; hence why he thinks so highly of his opinion. He also seems to be a bit un-cool. This is a hard vibe to describe. The only thing I can put my finger on is the fact that he's (likely) a 40+ blog writer who uses excessive swearing to sound cool and badass

That's just my opinion though. As for the advice, he makes some good points, but nothing special really. I already knew most of the information, and I'm guessing most screenwriters who have taken some minimal time to read up on the subject would too. Obviously his million dollar formula doesn't work very well though, or else he'd be writing movies instead of blog posts

I mean, come on. This guy isn't fooling anyone. Saying "I've given substantial creative input to probably some of your favorite movies" is BS! If he can't even give us a few notable names, what's the point in even bragging? That's like me saying "I've directed a number of good movies" (first of all, good is subjective, and second, zero is technically a number)
 
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Liv said:
My first impression? The writer seems arrogant. He seems like a loudmouth who needs to feel significant; hence why he thinks so highly of his opinion. He also seems to be a bit un-cool. This is a hard vibe to describe. The only thing I can put my finger on is the fact that he's (likely) a 40+ blog writer who uses excessive swearing to sound cool and badass

That's just my opinion though. As for the advice, he makes some good points, but nothing special really. I already knew most of the information, and I'm guessing most screenwriters who have taken some minimal time to read up on the subject would too. Obviously his million dollar formula doesn't work very well though, or else he'd be writing movies instead of blog posts

I mean, come on. This guy isn't fooling anyone. Saying "I've given substantial creative input to probably some of your favorite movies" is BS! If he can't even give us a few notable names, what's the point in even bragging? That's like me saying "I've directed a number of good movies" (first of all, good is subjective, and second, zero is technically a number)
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First off, he's a development executive.

Hollywood is brutal. Thousands, millions of scripts get rejected every year. There are many young writers who send in their script hopeful, and wait by the phone for a long time. They either get their idea stolen, don't get their script read, or just get rejected. Sure, there are movies like No Country for Old Men and Inception that break rules, but that's because those writer/directors are already in the system.

I think it's a great (cynical but honest) article. But there were a few over the top parts to me:

Or you could go to FILM SCHOOL and enter CONTESTS. The grandaddy of these is the Nicholl Fellowship, which is judged by old white liberals with too much time on their hands and tends to be weighted toward stuff like I WAS MOLESTED DURING THE HOLOCAUST and CANCER MCALCOHOLIC’S HEARTWARMING REDEMPTION AT THE HANDS OF A PRECOCIOUS ETHNIC CHILD. If you make it to the semifinals, miserable underpaid assistants will be forced to read your script before passing because it’s “too small” and “too dark.’'
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:hmm:

He probably isn't giving film names so that people can look him up and find out who he is.
 
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He says in the comments section he doesn't really want to say who he is given that he's slandered a number of people.

I don’t want to give specifics about projects that I worked on. I don’t want people figuring out who my old boss is, because I’ve written that he should be raped by hyenas with dicks of fire.
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He comes across as more human in the comments.

What do I think? Brutal, depressing, cynically written, and probably accurate.
 
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Interesting read. It had some easy to understand (incredibly dumbed down) examples of structure, etc... but then it lost me at the last line.

You are not trying to make good movies, you are trying to make Hollywood movies.
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Nope, I don't give a crap about Hollywood, I just want to make good movies. So clearly this article wasn't aimed at readers like me.
 
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GuerrillaAngel said:
And is this a good or bad thing?
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I wasn't referencing his age in that way. I made a small comment about how (I think) it's a bit awkward for 40+ year olds to be dropping F-bombs in an attempt to be hip. It's at least understandable when immature kids, teens, and young adults to do it. But like I said, it was a small comment; just a tiny thing that threw off my reading experience

I actually thinks its awesome when older people set an example by writing later in life. It shows that it's never too late to make a change (which is good, because I sometimes fall prey to the thinking "if I don't make it before I'm 30, it's all over!") :rolleyes:
 
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Liv, you'll be 40+ (and older people yourself) much sooner than you now realize. And since when are F-bombs age restricted? =)

And by the way, it is all over after 30.

Just kidding.

We 30+ grandmas and grandpas are still way hip. Why, we play the latest Nintendo 64 games, and most of us now have color televisions, cable, and MTV.
 
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