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![]() "The Blues Brothers" and "Trading Places" are two of my favorite comedies of all time. And let's not forget he directed "Thriller"!
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![]() I'm certainly not bashing John Landis - I love the guy's movies. Who doesn't? I and others were simply saying that the Landis last name isn't enough (in 2016) to cause studios to go into a feeding frenzy and buy a script from his son they normally wouldn't buy, let alone for a whopping 4 million bucks.
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I think for his 4 smaller scripts that haven't made back their budgets -- to even get some of those read to begin with or considered as viable projects, or to have reps decide to push those into the marketplace -- yes, I think his name helps. Simply because others' reps don't seem to make this happen or even remotely try to. I could be wrong -- for those here that have reps, are your reps doing this for you? Pushing scripts that are maybe not the "biggest" or "best" or "have heat" for you? So you, too, can get the paychecks, and the hype in deadline, and start to have a name? It doesn't seem to be that way for other writers. So in that regard, I believe his last name had a lot to do with those particular scripts getting sold. Anyway, the whole point of the original question was not to see if people think Landis is "worthy" of his success -- sure, why not -- but if his gain of influence trickles down to other writers in general. I guess it doesn't, though? |
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So for those in the back, HIS NAME DID HELP. I'm not saying it didn't. But it doesn't get you repeated, continued, sustained success. Coming up with good ideas and marketing the sh*t out of yourself does. As for the original question... to be honest, I don't even remember what it was. I entered this discussion in response to negativity that was being directed toward a fellow writer for reasons I felt weren't necessarily deserved, and that he was being held to a possibly-unfair standard by some. "Writer X wrote a hit movie right out of the gate and has been successful ever since - good for him!!" "Max Landis wrote a hit movie right out of the gate and has been successful ever since - pff, it's his name." Last edited by ProfessorChomp : 05-28-2016 at 11:58 AM. |
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Your writing is getting increasingly irrational. |
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Since you don't seem to understand the concept of what a quantifiable fact is, it's pointless for us to discuss this further. |
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I know how many scripts he has written. I know how many he has sold. I know how many were turned into movies. I know how difficult this is, and how much it demands from a writer, on the page, and in the room. I know what kind of personality Max has. It's hard to escape him nowadays. I know how he has built his network. If you bother to google, you can find answers to all of those things. If you are too lazy to do it, I'm not going to do the work for you. You are acting as if Max Landis is some mysterious figure we know nothing about, when the extreme opposite is true. |
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People with their own vanity YouTube channel use it to make themselves appear how they want themselves to appear. It's all controlled. If Max wants to appear as someone who is a self made genius who wasn't born into success, then that's the persona he's going to create for himself on YouTube. Also people from privileged backgrounds rarely publicize ways in which their privileged status helped them when they are trying to make themselves look more awesome, which is probably why you don't see anything online about how John Landis helped Max get where he is. And since you don't see it online, John's helping Max sustain himself and his career must not exist? Is that the logic? Gtfoh You can google and see that Max has movies produced, but it doesn't tell you HOW he wrote them or HOW he got them made, nor does it tell WHO helped him in ways that don't show up in the credits. 1) never believe everything you read online 2) you can read about a person online, but that doesn't mean you know them or know how they do what they do. 3) just because something appears on Google doesn't mean it's factual. |
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