New technology creates challenges for writers

Yup, another technology blog.  And it's not that I'm complaining about technology.  It's just that creating a comprehensive arena for your characters to live in can be a real challenge.

Unless you're in steampunk land, the PAST is pretty much set.  But Hollywood calls that a "period piece" and doesn't want to fund those projects.  Too expensive, and they think kids don't look backward.

The future...  Creating that can be expensive too.  And might include stuff like this:

Accentuate the Positive

There's a sign hanging in my bathroom, something my wife found, that says, "What would you do if you know you could not fail." 

Inspirational, but it depends on the dream.  And when writing your script, it's imperative that the protagonist's external goal be POSITIVE. 

The False Piety of Entitlement

Screenwriting is full of reflection.  Writers must see through the surface, to delve into the true nature of humanity, regardless of the cost, and tell the truth.

I looked up from my current project directed at our culture of entitlement to find the following image is displayed across the fruited internet:

SOPA's gonna have a problem with this

It may be stealing intellectual property, but it's BECOME intellectual property.  And funny.  Beat that.

 

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A new window of technology

Why am I blogging this?  This isn't about screenwriting!

But it is. We imagine, and it becomes reality...  Some day.  Sometimes things exist only in theory or on the silver screen, like socialist utopias.  Other things are just a matter of time.  That, and the laws of physics, political bias or social acceptance. 

Star Trek came out with flip phones and now they're so 2005.  We have smarter phones now!

Script Cops: McKee Sting

These guys are starting to play hardball with writers.  But they did have it coming.  See the video here:

http://vimeo.com/7015951

Tragic really.  Writers so addicted to the rush of script seminars, to some guru's biting analytical approach, willing to sit through hours of frame-by-frame deconstruction of movies for what seems like educational purposes. 

German Guy deconstructs "fish in a barrel"

This kind of comedy is NOT like shooting fish in a barrel.  But it is funny.

And yeah, he was trying to make techno music at 5AM. Don't even talk to me at 5AM. I don't think I even speak English then.

Is Jesus-porn Blasphemy?

Yes.

Whew, that was easy.

Wait, are we talking about the phrase, or that storytelling crutch and addiction I talked about the other day?

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