Re: Write the Right Script by Chris Lockhart
yes, you read right. i don't love rom-coms and i don't enjoy sophomoric humor. i understand i am alone in this respect. haha.
i did love How To Lose a Guy in Ten Days, My Best Friend's Wedding, Knight n Day, and Pretty Woman back in the day, but by and large i don't enjoy most rom-coms, but i had an idea, a concept i liked and most of it is turning out pretty okay.
i don't get Bridesmaids, read the script, not interested in seeing the film. read You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, and When Harry met Sally. don't feel i need to watch them again anytime soon. i understand the story from reading the script just fine.
I did like Train Wreck, at least most of it, so i guess i like some rom-coms, with really ****ed up people. but i've never "paid" a theater to watch one. i'd rather binge on all Mission Impossibles instead.
and yes, as part of my research ahead of time, i read and watched rom-coms. the structure is easily understood. i'm not a mushy, lovey dovey type. i love sci-fi action. i love thrillers.
but sometimes you have an idea that you know you can execute, so , well, you go for it. that's what i'm doing. i don't want to be known as a rom-com writer, i prefer when people get excited because i'm a female writer that can write high octane action sequences and thrillers that spook you.
and i'm a world builder. it's one of my strengths. that's my passion. writing about the human condition and how our past leads us to our future. how we make the same mistakes over and over again. inequality. justice. guilt. hope. retribution. identity. insecurity. fear. self-actualization. themes that come out of my stories.
i don't know how to explain it. i like my rom-com, but i'm pretty sure one is enough for me to do on spec.
it's a curious thing.
that, or i've had one to many margaritas tonight.
Originally posted by Bono
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i did love How To Lose a Guy in Ten Days, My Best Friend's Wedding, Knight n Day, and Pretty Woman back in the day, but by and large i don't enjoy most rom-coms, but i had an idea, a concept i liked and most of it is turning out pretty okay.
i don't get Bridesmaids, read the script, not interested in seeing the film. read You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, and When Harry met Sally. don't feel i need to watch them again anytime soon. i understand the story from reading the script just fine.
I did like Train Wreck, at least most of it, so i guess i like some rom-coms, with really ****ed up people. but i've never "paid" a theater to watch one. i'd rather binge on all Mission Impossibles instead.
and yes, as part of my research ahead of time, i read and watched rom-coms. the structure is easily understood. i'm not a mushy, lovey dovey type. i love sci-fi action. i love thrillers.
but sometimes you have an idea that you know you can execute, so , well, you go for it. that's what i'm doing. i don't want to be known as a rom-com writer, i prefer when people get excited because i'm a female writer that can write high octane action sequences and thrillers that spook you.
and i'm a world builder. it's one of my strengths. that's my passion. writing about the human condition and how our past leads us to our future. how we make the same mistakes over and over again. inequality. justice. guilt. hope. retribution. identity. insecurity. fear. self-actualization. themes that come out of my stories.
i don't know how to explain it. i like my rom-com, but i'm pretty sure one is enough for me to do on spec.
it's a curious thing.
that, or i've had one to many margaritas tonight.
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