tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67169785302921625402024-03-05T18:09:22.771-08:00LONO PUBLISHINGRichard Finney's Pit and the Pendulumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01765651977112405374noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6716978530292162540.post-73766460239184530822017-04-07T18:03:00.002-07:002017-04-07T18:03:55.012-07:00How Bad is the Movie Industry Hurting?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Anyone in the movie business who tells you they’re not scared stiff about the future is probably lying. There is mounting anxiety among theater owners, studio executives, filmmakers, and cinephiles that the lights may be starting to flicker. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-- Brent Lang - <i><span style="color: lime;">Variety</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the record, I don't disagree with the quote or the overall assessment in the article written by Brent Lang for <i>Variety</i>. I do wonder why his piece doesn't mention the huge factor of the aging population in the United States as one of the major causes for the decline of the domestic theatrical box office numbers. Perhaps this factor has been mentioned so many times </span><span style="font-size: large;">over the last decade</span><span style="font-size: large;">, it's no longer worth including as part of the summary. But setting that aside... </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">I agree. There's a problem. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">The theatrical movie business is in big trouble.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The good news for screenwriters (professional and aspiring) is that breaking through and working in TV is a totally different matter.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In the near future, I will be specifically addressing this difference with my posts and an upcoming book.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">However, with the difficulties of an ever-changing marketplace, there are many writers out there who are confused and unsure about this one issue -- </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What Should I Write Right Now?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided to put together a Core Checklist of what you should always consider before you begin your next writing effort. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This checklist doesn’t necessarily offer incredible insight or originality. Indeed, a few of the points are probably </span><span style="font-size: large;">a repeat of the same stuff most of you have read before over the years. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But I began writing the list by asking myself - what are the factors that have guided me over the years that has allowed me to maintain a professional screenwritering /filmmaking career for the last two decades?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My answer ended up being a long list. </span><span style="font-size: large;">But here are Six Core Principals for Screenwriters to think about when making a decision about -- </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">1) </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Write</span><span style="font-size: large;"> something that is not just of an interest to you, or your family and friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The goal in anything you write for the industry is to actually pursue a project that would be of interest to people motivated enough to pay to read (or watch) what you’ve written.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">2)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Write</span><span style="font-size: large;"> What You know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yeah, I know, obviously you've read this before. </span><span style="font-size: large;">So here is the next level to the phrase — write not only what you know about, but write in a way that the outside world will associate your subject/style/genre with you. It's one of the best ways if the goal is to get your work produced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">3)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Write</span><span style="font-size: large;"> what you are reasonably sure you can complete.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is especially true when you have a history of uncompleted projects. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Writing and stopping after the first draft only works when writing in a diary. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">4)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Write</span><span style="font-size: large;"> in a "timeless" way. Don't choose as subject or write in a way that attempts to be of the moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What you write can be a period piece… a project set in the present-day… or a project set in the future. The setting doesn't matter as much as making your creative effort timeless rather than "gimmicky" or an attempt to be "cutting edge." Content over Flash is always the way to go. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Think of your content being about what lies below the surface, not on what happens to be floating at that moment across the water. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We're talking about "calling card" here. Your script should be saying to those people in the industry who need a writer to work on their project -- <i>look what I can do</i>. <i>You should hire me to make your script as good as the one you're reading. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The best lessons in my creative life have come from challenges that were beyond what I had done before. Even when we fail to gain “success” from attempting such a challenge, often times the work post-challenge becomes noticeably better. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Back in 2009, author Richard Finney </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana"; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">(with D.L. Snell)</span> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana"; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">wrote the </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana"; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><i><b>DEMON DAYS</b></i></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana"; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"> Saga (Four Books / Over 1000 pages / 280,000 words). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana"; font-size: large;">Several chapters of Book Three take place in the city of Aleppo, Syria. Seven years later the city </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana"; font-size: large;">has become decimated by a civil war, which shockingly matches much of what is depicted in the Book written by Finney and Snell. show much of </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana"; font-size: large;">hocking</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana"; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana"; font-size: large;">the book became . </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana";">We're excited to share an excerpt from the paranormal thriller <i><b><span style="color: red;">DEMON DAYS</span></b></i> Saga so you can see for yourself how fiction can end up being </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana"; font-size: large;">sadly prophetic about </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana"; font-size: large;">current events. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">On the road</span><span style="font-size: large;"> out of the airport, Wolfenson’s team was delayed at a checkpoint. The Syrian military had formed an armed perimeter with roadblocks and hundreds of men. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Luckily one of the guards recognized the envoy from his talk show appearances. “You were funny, sir,” the guard said in plain English.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Shukran,” Wolfenson replied. He had rolled down his window so he could talk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The guard gestured into the other back seat next to Wolfenson. “What is that?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“It is bread.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The guard nodded again, as if in perfect understanding. He pointed to the far fields, where hundreds of lights flickered and flagged. “Be careful out there. Some of them are dangerous.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Are they refugees?” Reitz asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before the guard could answer, Wolfenson said, “If you don’t mind me asking, soldier, do you have a wife and children?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Yes, sir.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Excellent. Do you have a picture?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The soldier paused, surprised by the question. He dug a photograph out of his wallet and handed it to Wolfenson, who studied the image thoughtfully.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Your little one,” he said. “What’s her name?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Aisha.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wolfenson nodded. “And is she safe?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Her name means ‘alive and well,’ sir,” the guard said with proud relief. Wolfenson laughed, and the soldier smiled at having entertained a great man. “My wife says her name’s a sign from Allah.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wolfenson nodded and handed back the picture. “Your wife is right. Mashallah, soldier. She’s beautiful.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Mashallah,” the guard said. “Fe Aman Allah.” He let them pass, let them out toward the flickers in the field. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“So, Reitz,” Fincher said as they travelled. “I haven’t had a chance to talk to Carl—how is he doing?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“He appears to be fine, sir.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“And his family?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I’m afraid I can’t say.” Ahead, road barrels reflected in Reitz’s headlights. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Yes, I understand. Your relationship is strictly professional.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Not exactly,” Reitz replied. “Mr. Saracen is a private man, so I don’t know much about his family. But we’ve been through a lot together and he’s more than earned my undying loyalty. So things are more than professional between us.” He squinted at the road barrels ahead. “Overpass is out.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Guided by GPS, Reitz took an off-ramp, and then an on-ramp, bypassing the whole mess. In a minute they were back on the main road. “Eyes sharp,” he said, pointing at the flickers in the field, which were fires.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Immediately, a loose squad of men spilled out of the night, waving. Some could have been mistaken for Westerners by dress, while others, Muslims, wore red-and-white checkered headdresses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reitz slowed and swerved around them, but Fincher told him to speed up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Don’t give them a chance to get in front of us.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The men in the road had come from makeshift camps where children and women, veiled to the eyes, huddled around burning trashcans. Thousands of Syrians inhabited the dark farmland, naturally segregated by Muslims and minorities, like Christians, but also naturally brought together by the quake. They had migrated from the city knowing that aid would come by air. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“So where are we headed, sir?” Reitz asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“To the trade market in Khan al-Shouneh.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reitz glanced at him in the rearview mirror. “Sir, surely you’ve seen the satellite pictures of that area. It’s devastated.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Sadly, that is the case. But it’s the survivors we need to speak to, not the dead.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“And I must warn you,” Dr. Fincher said to Reitz. “These people we’re going to see, they’ll be spooked by a U.S. soldier carrying a weapon.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I haven’t been a soldier since my tour in Baghdad, sir. I’m a private employee now, have been for years.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Just the same, we’ll need you to hold your position outside. Can we count on you to make that happen?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reitz addressed Wolfenson in the rearview, as if the envoy had asked the question and not Dr. Fincher. “Sir, that request makes me very uncomfortable. I’ve never lost a client. I refuse to start with you.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wolfenson unbuckled his seatbelt and leaned forward to squeeze Reitz’s shoulder. “That’s very commendable, soldier. I can see why Carl holds you in such high esteem. But trust me, behaving rashly is the one thing that could get us killed.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Out of the darkness, a roadblock materialized, a building collapsed into the road. And in the desert directly before it, several eyes shined. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“What in the hell?” Reitz slowed down and looked through a pair of night vision binoculars. “Canines of some sort. Three of them, just standing there by the side of the road.” He zoomed in and then lowered his binoculars as the beasts resolved in the headlights. “I think they might be coyotes.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Impossible,” Fincher said, squinting. “There are no coyotes in Syria.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“They could have escaped from the zoo,” Reitz suggested.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Aleppo doesn’t have a zoo.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“And yet,” Wolfenson interjected, “Reitz is correct. They are coyotes.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The animals weren’t moving, even as the Humvee roared near and spewed its exhaust. They stood as monuments unshaken, even by the faults of the land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since he was a boy, the hairs at the nape of Fincher’s neck had been sensitive. He had always thought of the hairs as an extrasensory organ, feelers that bristled cold against a very specific stimulus. Out here, at the edge of catastrophe, his hairs should have been on end—he knew that. But they weren’t.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Pull over,” the envoy said to Reitz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Please.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Yes, sir.” Reitz parked on the shoulder of the road, but kept the engine running. Wolfenson threw open his door and got out. With the confidence of an accomplished man, he strode toward the feral trinity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Sir!” Reitz shouted, scrambling for his submachine gun, an HK MP 5. He turned to Dr. Fincher and said, “What’s he doing?!” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fincher, ignoring him, got out too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Damn it!” Reitz jumped out of the driver’s side and chased after them, breathing in the smoke and the night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This close to the threat, Fincher still didn’t feel the chill down his neck, the one that told him which instinct to follow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Slowly, calmly, Wolfenson took another step forward. The coyotes crouched in unison, moving as one beast with three heads. It growled, six eyes flashing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reitz stepped between Wolfenson and the predators, aiming his weapon. The eyes looked right past him to the envoy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Sir, if you would, please back up toward the Hummer. Slowly...”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Yes,” Fincher said, and began to back up himself. “Excellent idea.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A second later, Wolfenson backed up too, and the coyotes began to bark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When they could talk privately near the rumble of the Humvee, Wolfenson leaned toward the doctor. “Where are we at with acquiring those pages?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fincher hesitated, embarrassed. “We’re working on it.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The envoy didn’t react to the news. He was too fixated on the coyotes, which Reitz seemed to be holding back with his weapon. “Canis latrans,” Wolfenson finally remarked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fincher furrowed his brow. “Latin for... barking dog?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">“Yes, the coyote. They have a gift of making the howls of a few sound like the howls of the many.” He looked toward the roadblock of brick and mortar. “I believe that’s why the Landlord chose them as his messengers.” </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">Fincher glanced at him and noticed that, for the first time, The Angel of Light’s look of fixed confidence had disappeared. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The doctor opened his mouth to say something—but then Reitz fired his submachine gun into the air. The coyotes no longer barked at Wolfenson. They growled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Should I shoot them?” Reitz asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“No, let them be!” the envoy shouted over the sound of the Hummer. “Time to move out! We need to find a way around!” He and Dr. Fincher got into the vehicle, and Reitz started to retreat slowly from the beasts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Taking advantage of the brief privacy, Fincher turned to the envoy, who sat beside the bread. “Messengers. For what?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wolfenson stared out at the roadblock, resting his elbow on the door rest, resting his hand over his mouth. “To issue a warning,” he said. “A final caveat about my plan.”</span></div>
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Richard Finney's Pit and the Pendulumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01765651977112405374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6716978530292162540.post-54174685793165219242015-11-24T17:01:00.001-08:002015-11-24T17:01:35.684-08:00THE AUTHOR OF THE PROFESSIONAL SCREENWRITER BOOKS POSTED A BLOG WE THINK IS IMPORTANT... <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfwcOsOBCVfcQl40AoD-K9Wo3pfXBTvlWpwGwOa4RK8rGRHtTfKr-edW9eaQc-iw-p7JMM7Y4wbGh8o7bE22u-PbMwKztYuvbgftSVqQn9SfyRGkP7Wog6DzqKCbaaZgU4Vm7PHPGes3_h/s1600/our-brand-is-crisis-satur.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfwcOsOBCVfcQl40AoD-K9Wo3pfXBTvlWpwGwOa4RK8rGRHtTfKr-edW9eaQc-iw-p7JMM7Y4wbGh8o7bE22u-PbMwKztYuvbgftSVqQn9SfyRGkP7Wog6DzqKCbaaZgU4Vm7PHPGes3_h/s200/our-brand-is-crisis-satur.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">On November 19th, </span><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large;"><i><b><a href="http://variety.com/2015/voices/columns/why-good-films-fail-at-box-office-in-awards-season-1201643917/">Variety</a></b></i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://variety.com/2015/voices/columns/why-good-films-fail-at-box-office-in-awards-season-1201643917/"> published a piece </a>by the former editor and chief, </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Peter Bart</span><span style="font-size: large;">, in which he attempts to come up with some meaningful reasons to explain the recent poor box office performance of what he considers “good movies” and what the rest of the industry had generally considered to be potential Oscar nominees. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Personally, I spoke with Peter Bart twice in my life....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana";"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Sutter’s only previous effort as the main show runner of a TV series was <i>The Sons of Anarchy</i>, a ground breaking series that ran for seven years on FX. </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana"; line-height: 22px;">Is it possible Sutter didn’t re-calibrate his artistic sensibilities when unfolding the overall story arc in the first year of a brand-new series? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana"; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">I’m certainly simplifying the creative reasons for the cancellation of a well-produced TV series, but I think there are possible cautionary lessons that can still be learned from <i>TBE</i>’s cancellation. </span></span></div>
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smart, complicated and strong female main characters. Sandy Travis and Jenna
Grant are modern professional women who end up confronting the deadly
conspiracy while going about their professional and personal lives. And both
use their professional expertise in an attempt to save the people they love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES</span> all over the world be leading to a dark plot to usher in the </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">End Days</span><span style="font-size: large;">? <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The entertainment Industry has a </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">sorry past</span><span style="font-size: large;"> of taking the </span><span style="font-size: large;">hip catch-phrase/ memorable gesture in </span><span style="font-size: large;">produced movies and recycling the moment as a weapon to use against someone who has hit an Entertainment Career Detour. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the purpose of giving back to the industry, I’ve collected some commonly used phrases used today in Hollywood so the younger generation coming up through the ranks will better understand that there are often times in this Industry when </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-style: italic;">“Hello”</b> actually means</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">“Goodbye”</span></b></i><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b>--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Poster Compressed",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A big problem is the apocalyptic-like title he employs for his post. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Poster Compressed",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the one level he probably intended, he has succeeded -- <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/grp/post/1151907-5999726835896766464">people have made comments.</a> And I'm now </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT Poster Compressed', serif; font-size: large;">posting my reaction to a blog that lured me in with a provocative title.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Poster Compressed",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately, after digesting the content of his post, there is no level the title of his post truthfully resonates except as an exploitative tease.</span></span></div>
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