Re: Picking Right Idea
the way I approach it, it's more of a building process... as you get better at writing you'll learn [or be told] what people want to sell or buy or read or go to a theater to watch... maybe their daughter, girlfriend, best friend, son-in-law dragged them to the theater and when they filled out a card that explained why the movie was so amazing and moved up the ladder to and into the offices where it finds it's way into the hot little hands of a studio executive, who exclaims "see I've told you this is what they want!" and everyone claps in a boardroom and all of them make their assistants tell everyone that we're sailing that ship to the new horizon where we'll be rich with pirate booty.
-also maybe-
I might fall in love with a character and situation, but I need the right elements around them to get the right theme
thinking about it, I do wonder if a situation like 'Adaptation' could be the 'wrong idea' in some ways, that required the writer to reach within themselves to create an even better screenplay
I'm sure Kaufman is a big Hemingway fan, just as the Coen brothers are...
the way I approach it, it's more of a building process... as you get better at writing you'll learn [or be told] what people want to sell or buy or read or go to a theater to watch... maybe their daughter, girlfriend, best friend, son-in-law dragged them to the theater and when they filled out a card that explained why the movie was so amazing and moved up the ladder to and into the offices where it finds it's way into the hot little hands of a studio executive, who exclaims "see I've told you this is what they want!" and everyone claps in a boardroom and all of them make their assistants tell everyone that we're sailing that ship to the new horizon where we'll be rich with pirate booty.
-also maybe-
I might fall in love with a character and situation, but I need the right elements around them to get the right theme
thinking about it, I do wonder if a situation like 'Adaptation' could be the 'wrong idea' in some ways, that required the writer to reach within themselves to create an even better screenplay
I'm sure Kaufman is a big Hemingway fan, just as the Coen brothers are...
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