Re: Veronica Mars Movie (Kickstarter Fund)
This was exactly my thinking when I first heard about the VM fundraising effort. Craig pretty much said the same thing in the latest Scriptnotes podcast.
In a world where executives are bragging about nickel-and-diming screenwriters with the race-to-the-bottom practice of one-step deals in order to save a few extra dollars in development costs, it doesn't take a genius to see those same executives grinning evilly at the success of this Kickstarter campaign and deciding to employ the same tactics with every future project as a litmus test to see if they can skirt any initial investment on their part.
But since this is the Neo Dark Ages where average citizens have allowed themselves to be talked out of the very unions that protected their financial interests and have yet to storm Wall Street by the millions to demand the return of the money stolen from their Treasury, sure, why not, let's make donations to mega-corporations so they don't have to pay a nickel or dime in development because in the end we get a T-shirt.
The internet has given the average citizen access to vast amounts of information that we've never had before, but it sure hasn't made us smarter as a species.
Originally posted by scripto80
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In a world where executives are bragging about nickel-and-diming screenwriters with the race-to-the-bottom practice of one-step deals in order to save a few extra dollars in development costs, it doesn't take a genius to see those same executives grinning evilly at the success of this Kickstarter campaign and deciding to employ the same tactics with every future project as a litmus test to see if they can skirt any initial investment on their part.
But since this is the Neo Dark Ages where average citizens have allowed themselves to be talked out of the very unions that protected their financial interests and have yet to storm Wall Street by the millions to demand the return of the money stolen from their Treasury, sure, why not, let's make donations to mega-corporations so they don't have to pay a nickel or dime in development because in the end we get a T-shirt.
The internet has given the average citizen access to vast amounts of information that we've never had before, but it sure hasn't made us smarter as a species.
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