Would this be a good time to write a spec kidnapping screenplay or just the opposite? Considering all of the ones being written or sent out recently (Prisoners, Kidnap, etc.)?
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Originally posted by briking View PostWould this be a good time to write a spec kidnapping screenplay or just the opposite? Considering all of the ones being written or sent out recently (Prisoners, Kidnap, etc.)?QUESTICLES -- It's about balls on a mission.
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Now is the time to think one step ahead.
Kidnapping has been hot the last year or so -- but what's next?ScreenQuery.com | $5.50 Query Blast Service
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Originally posted by ScreenQuery View PostNow is the time to think one step ahead.
Kidnapping has been hot the last year or so -- but what's next?
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Originally posted by ScreenQuery View PostNow is the time to think one step ahead.
Kidnapping has been hot the last year or so -- but what's next?
May not be that directional.
What's next has more to do with chaos theory than with something lying ahead.
It could be happening behind our back. Or under our feet.Last edited by Ulysses; 06-04-2009, 08:43 PM."Ecco il grande Zampano!"
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Originally posted by briking View PostWould this be a good time to write a spec kidnapping screenplay or just the opposite? Considering all of the ones being written or sent out recently (Prisoners, Kidnap, etc.)?
Whenever a grenade hit, all soldiers threw themselves into the crater that last shell made.
Those old guns never hit the same spot twice. So, jumping into the crater of the last impact was proper survival tactics. The next impact would be anywhere else but in that newest crater.
Film success fires as imprecise as those WWI cannons.
If you jump into the crater of the most recent success, you'll be safe from being hit by success yourself."Ecco il grande Zampano!"
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As the next big thing may happen anywhere, I write what fascinates me and what I think may be a good movie.
The rest is...
1. to the gods...
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2. to the universe...
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3. to the supreme powers...
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4. to a coffee-addicted, nineteen year-old script reader (who just had a break-up with his girl-friend)...
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5. to an agent, crashing his car into a lamp post and getting hit by your script, which was on his back seat because he wrapped his sandwich in it...
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6. to a producer, who missed a meeting, fired his assistant, had to answer his own phones, used the back of a script lying around for notes, takes it home because he needs the notes, accidentally turns it around, accidentally reads it, accidentally likes it, intentionally greenlights it, and, of course, it happens to be one of your scripts, and, furthermore...
(more chances lying ahead, which are, like all chances, unpredictable. Which is why second-guessing the market place is unlikely to work)"Ecco il grande Zampano!"
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Someone kidnaps a baby goat! That's sleeping dutring the day!Free Script Tips:
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If you've already mapped out a good story and are excited about it, then you should definitely go with it. But if you're thinking to yourself, "Hey there are a lot of kidnapping movies being bought. Maybe I should start thinking about one of those..." don't waste your time. Hollywood constantly suffers from over-saturation, and as a result, elements in scripts that were once red-hot become the script's albatross. I'll always steer people away from zombie scripts and vampire scripts right now for the same reason.
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Originally posted by Ulysses View PostAs the next big thing may happen anywhere, I write what fascinates me and what I think may be a good movie.
The rest is...
1. to the gods...
or
2. to the universe...
or
3. to the supreme powers...
or
4. to a coffee-addicted, nineteen year-old script reader (who just had a break-up with his girl-friend)...
or
5. to an agent, crashing his car into a lamp post and getting hit by your script, which was on his back seat because he wrapped his sandwich in it...
or
6. to a producer, who missed a meeting, fired his assistant, had to answer his own phones, used the back of a script lying around for notes, takes it home because he needs the notes, accidentally turns it around, accidentally reads it, accidentally likes it, intentionally greenlights it, and, of course, it happens to be one of your scripts, and, furthermore...
(more chances lying ahead, which are, like all chances, unpredictable. Which is why second-guessing the market place is unlikely to work)
"Artificial Intelligence will never match the efficiency of Natural Stupidity"
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