to you that the top three grossing movies right now are original material?
Is it encouraging
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Re: Is it encouraging
Considering that some of my favorite movies are adaptations, I'm not sure I would call it encouraging. I have a pretty long list of books, novellas, short stories and such I'd like to adapt -- a list that's almost as long as the list of original ideas I'm planning to write at some point.
So, unlike most of my screenwriting pals, I'm kinda neutral on this whole sequels, remakes and adaptations vs. original material issue.
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I'm all for recycling, but Hollywood has been taking it to extremes in recent times, so I find it very encouraging.TimeStorm & Blurred Vision Book info & blog: https://stormingtime.com//
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Originally posted by NatachaVonBraun View Postto you that the top three grossing movies right now are original material?"Only nothing is impossible."
- Grant Morrison
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Originally posted by Gwai Lo View PostCOUNT CHOCULA is just waiting for his shot
Unlucky Charms
Years of stereotyping finally take their toll, causing genuine leprechaun Sheamus O'Shaunessy to snap and take revenge on the consumers of Lucky Charms cereal.
O'Shaunessy uses his magic plant a bunch of genuine magical charms within random boxes of cereal. The recipients of these magical gifts are thankful for them at first, but slowly the charms begin to turn on them.
The lonely spinster whose heart shaped charm led to her dating her long term crush discovers all too late that Mr Perfect is in fact a violent, abusive psycho.
The relief of the drought hit farmer whose crops were saved when the rainbow charm brought rain for the first time in weeks, slowly turns to despair as the rain just keeps coming and coming, eventually flooding away his fields.
An amateur astronomer whose shooting star charm sets him on a hot streak of discovering new comets in the solar system has his joy cut short when he realizes that the largest one he has discovered is on a direct course to crash into Earth.
As reports of these and other ill favoured charms get back to General Mills food company, they liaise with the famous FBI Elite Cereal Crimes Unit to track down O'Shaunessy in order to force him to reverse his magic before the comet impacts and wipes out mankind.
20 years from now. OscarsĀ®. See you there."Only nothing is impossible."
- Grant Morrison
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In all seriousness, this past weekend's box office is a very small victory, if it is in fact a victory at all. It's just one weekend out of many. Despite the griping of critics and a handful of vocal internet users, which I'm sure the suits are aware of, the sequels/remakes/adaptations still make buttloads of money. There is very little incentive for Hollywood to change the business model, which will always be to favor a sure thing with a built-in market over a creative risk that needs to be marketed and promoted from the ground up. Besides, the original material is only half the battle. We wouldn't be complaining as much if Hollywood took the time and care to develop the story potential of all of these sequels/remakes/adaptations. A large part of the problem is that the tickets sell themselves with some of these properties, so there is also very little incentive to actually tell a compelling story that will earn its buck through positive word of mouth. It's all about the wham bam of the opening weekend, pulling a fast one on the audience before they realize they've been suckered into watching something utterly disposable.
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I'm pretty sure its just a glitch in the matrix...
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Do not be concerned, this current moment of originality will not affect the bell curve of mediocrity. Please return your your seats to the lowered positions and assume an expression of bovine calm. Do not be alarmed, normal service will resume shortly. .
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Shemale LadyboyLast edited by Southern_land; 05-13-2011, 07:05 AM.I heard the starting gun
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