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Are screenwriters getting the short end of the stick or are just plain whiners? Here's an article by the A.V. Club about the importance of scribes. Without a screenwriter and therefore without a script, I'd say screenwriters are pretty damn important (to say the least)...but that's just me.
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Screenwriters at the most important people in the film industry. -
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The writer is the centre of the universe, quite literally.Comment
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screenwriters suck!
a bunch of useless talentless leaches.
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Without screenwriters, directors would have to put all of their focus on stealing credit for the editor's work instead.Comment
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He who has the camera has the vision. He who has the money has the power.Comment
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Without a script money + power + vision = politics, not film.
That said though, the screenwriter is just one piece in the puzzle. He's the first piece to be connected, and without him you can't have a movie, but then again without a actors, a director, and producer(s) a screenplay is just useless paper. Every part of the puzzle is necessary.Comment
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And by the time the DVD comes out, we exist in name only.Originally posted by whistlelock View PostComment
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Originally posted by TheKeenGuy View Post
If you're lucky!
But thank the Lord for residuals.Comment
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A half billion?!
Alright, who's got it and why aren't you sharing?!Comment
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When was the last time the Screenwriter "opened" a film at the box office, though?
Writers need to change the HW paradigm. Change the language of the Bizness.
I suggest ... start sticking illustrations in your specs.
(It's like ... Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. flooding the jails in Alabama: overload the system, ignore the outdated expectations, and the system and the expectations break down, open up, become free.)sigpic
"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -
that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves."
-Mahatma Gandhi.Comment
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I don't look at myself as "just" a screenwriter. I look at myself as a typist and a word processer.
So. I'm a triple threat.Comment
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i'm an idiot. =|Last edited by habronic; 11-19-2006, 06:10 AM.Aiming for mediocrity and falling well short =)
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And the rest of us crawl beneath the proverbial table, waiting for a crumb to fall off.
Advice from writer, Kelly Sue DeConnick. "Try this: if you can replace your female character with a sexy lamp and the story still basically works, maybe you need another draft.-Comment
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