tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4706282221761427996.post4392060226158663186..comments2024-03-07T20:15:45.996-08:00Comments on The Bitter Script Reader: Reader questions: Day 3The Bitter Script Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575166527272639709noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4706282221761427996.post-30625834196572176652009-12-03T01:43:14.830-08:002009-12-03T01:43:14.830-08:00I read a review on Scriptshadow of a script about ...I read a review on Scriptshadow of a script about white farmers in Mugabe's Zimbabwe, and the reviewer dismissed the whole concept as hopelessly uncommercial - a "competition script". That disappointed me: I would have thought that topic had enough inherent drama to make it viable. So my question is, are there any settings or situations that you can't make a commercially successful movie from, and how do you know what the audience will tolerate?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4706282221761427996.post-22701309637689545062009-12-02T12:44:42.462-08:002009-12-02T12:44:42.462-08:00Thanks for your thoughts Zuul.
The opening v.o. ...Thanks for your thoughts Zuul. <br /><br />The opening v.o. is from the protagonist, i.e. American Beauty (not that I'm comparing my stuff to Ball)<br /><br />By blatant exposition I mean "I was born in 1959, the son of a sheepherder...". Mine is more tonal, the protagonist giving his thoughts on urban decay (yeah it isn't a comedy).<br /><br />Deaf Indian, I live in NYC and know a few writers more established than me (agent, manager, etc) who also live here so it can work. But many of them got their careers off the ground in LA then moved east.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04257817732413406147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4706282221761427996.post-30181304719217652942009-12-02T08:27:24.684-08:002009-12-02T08:27:24.684-08:00What about living in NYC, though? It's even bi...What about living in NYC, though? It's even bigger than L.A! Yeah, I want to move to L.A, but it doesn't seem possible anytime soon, but I might be able to move to the east coast next year, hopefully.<br /><br />So, do screenwriters still have a shot if they live in New York?Sabina E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14679639206346030919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4706282221761427996.post-48643090311506652882009-12-02T00:37:57.286-08:002009-12-02T00:37:57.286-08:00I'm dumbfounded at how point-of-view can be us...I'm dumbfounded at how point-of-view can be used in film through narration devices that violate all the basic physics of the story. Presumably if a person is telling us a story they are either God (Morgan Freeman usually) or someone involved in the events that took place in which case they have to have been around to have a reason to know why everything happened as well as have a purpose for having been chosen by the writer as the character best used to tell the story. And in some movies the narrator opens the story but never closes it. Did the narrator pass out as he was telling the story? Fall asleep? Die? Then how is the movie continuing? Who's telling us the story?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com