I have recently managed to get a respected Hollywood screenwriter to check out my psychological horror script.
His feedback was... tough.... some of the fixes I saw and were easy but
he believed that taking the film in an entirely other direction would be better.
The plot would change so much that only the very basic impetus of the script would remain.
If I'd written 'The Fly' it would be like, 'Hey I'd get rid of the boring repetetive stuff of her going to visit Brundle and seeing whats happened to him...,
instead have him going out night after night killing innocent people to feed his new appetites and him having to deal with that and the morality that
comes along with it, that's a real character arc.
Basically criticism that so fundamentally alters the style of the film it's now a different film entirely.
The notes I got were almost if you don't do it this way it's crap, rather than try and fix the version you've got and keep the vision you have, etc.
I wonder what everyone's thoughts were on this kind of feeback.
Thankyou
His feedback was... tough.... some of the fixes I saw and were easy but
he believed that taking the film in an entirely other direction would be better.
The plot would change so much that only the very basic impetus of the script would remain.
If I'd written 'The Fly' it would be like, 'Hey I'd get rid of the boring repetetive stuff of her going to visit Brundle and seeing whats happened to him...,
instead have him going out night after night killing innocent people to feed his new appetites and him having to deal with that and the morality that
comes along with it, that's a real character arc.
Basically criticism that so fundamentally alters the style of the film it's now a different film entirely.
The notes I got were almost if you don't do it this way it's crap, rather than try and fix the version you've got and keep the vision you have, etc.
I wonder what everyone's thoughts were on this kind of feeback.
Thankyou
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