Today my best friend came over and had an idea for a movie. So I figured what the hell, I'm stuck on my stuff, let me see if I can be open to working with my best friend on a cool idea and turning it into a screenplay.
Basically all day we were arguing about everything from the characters, to the set up, to structure...
About 4 hours later, with about a few light outlines and two pages of script written(which I think is good for a first day), we began REALLY FIGHTING.
Now, let me ask you all. Have you had experience trying your best working with people who have NEVER read a screenplay, or don't watch many movies, but SWEAR their idea is pretty much golden and it's not that hard to just write it?
I understood that he didn't have much experience, but he began to question my ability to just hurry up and write some pages, and that's when I lost it, because he has no idea what it takes to start a screenplay and actually finish one.
What got me more upset was he started saying why THIS is why I'm not making movies and living the Hollywood dream today because I worry too much about complicating a screenplay and just keeping it simple, to which I told him if it were THAT simple I'd have written 100 specs and sold them all. He didn't agree.
I tried my best to see where he was coming from with his idea, but he just couldn't comprehend what I was talking about, especially technically.
To top it off, my roommate gets into the argument defending him about why I put down his ideas for the story and how I think I'm a guru of Screenwriting, but I kept trying to explain to them that his short story is a complete 180 from a screenplay and that a screenplay had to be carefully written with so much attention, but they kept ganging up on me.
How possible is it to work with someone that wants to write a movie but doesn't feel they need to read ANY scripts at all, nor see films related to the story?
The argument basically from his side is that you don't need to learn anything, but do it your own way and not worry about that stuff and just write the story plain and simple. He feels there's no rules or principles to follow whatsoever because he's seen movies and know it can be done just like that.
Let the discussion begin...
Basically all day we were arguing about everything from the characters, to the set up, to structure...
About 4 hours later, with about a few light outlines and two pages of script written(which I think is good for a first day), we began REALLY FIGHTING.
Now, let me ask you all. Have you had experience trying your best working with people who have NEVER read a screenplay, or don't watch many movies, but SWEAR their idea is pretty much golden and it's not that hard to just write it?
I understood that he didn't have much experience, but he began to question my ability to just hurry up and write some pages, and that's when I lost it, because he has no idea what it takes to start a screenplay and actually finish one.
What got me more upset was he started saying why THIS is why I'm not making movies and living the Hollywood dream today because I worry too much about complicating a screenplay and just keeping it simple, to which I told him if it were THAT simple I'd have written 100 specs and sold them all. He didn't agree.
I tried my best to see where he was coming from with his idea, but he just couldn't comprehend what I was talking about, especially technically.
To top it off, my roommate gets into the argument defending him about why I put down his ideas for the story and how I think I'm a guru of Screenwriting, but I kept trying to explain to them that his short story is a complete 180 from a screenplay and that a screenplay had to be carefully written with so much attention, but they kept ganging up on me.
How possible is it to work with someone that wants to write a movie but doesn't feel they need to read ANY scripts at all, nor see films related to the story?
The argument basically from his side is that you don't need to learn anything, but do it your own way and not worry about that stuff and just write the story plain and simple. He feels there's no rules or principles to follow whatsoever because he's seen movies and know it can be done just like that.
Let the discussion begin...
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