Is There Will Be Blood good or is it all just hype
where did you find this
So what are the chances that upon going into film school, the vast majority of the students are Shake-like idiots that just want to make carbon copies of the garbage of recent years?
like i said, if he's 17, he ain't gonna be writing anything even approximating mediocre. my dislike for the pompous salesmanship of his juvenile opinions aside, it ain't bad FOR THE AVERAGE 17 YEAR OLD TEENPRAT. do we really expect a dumb, sheltered teen to knock out the next goodfellas?
on the other hand, he probably shoulda just kept the script to himself.
Who's more likely to make it in Hollywood - Shake, Willco, or FoC?
can you not ctrl +f -> "burger"?
Gold? Who the hell is Gold?
Oh, I think we all know :shh
Why am I not surprised at your simple nature, Ichi? The metaphor is one of the many tools in the writer's Bat Belt, but certainly not the most complex. Clearly the main antagonist is modeled after Ron Paul
It reads like a 24 episode so far
DAMN IT
I read like 3 pages and it was just too much action for me. It was like there was warm maple syrup coursing through my veins, like I was either Miles Trahan himself, or some kind of human McGriddle.
Am I the only one who thought "hmm, mysterious evil Jew out to get noble hero Jack Trenton...it MUST BE WILLCO!!!!" Shake is taking his persecution complex into the cinema. He is a true auteur.
"We were friends - sometimes more than that, sometimes less. But we were always close"
"I take it you two were involved, then?"
I'm not a big expert although I do have my qualifications; I always say the best strategy is always to think of your audience. What better way to ensure their satisfaction than ensure every detail is described as much as possible? They payed to watch a movie, not think :bow
"We were friends - sometimes more than that, sometimes less. But we were always close"
"I take it you two were involved, then?"
I'm not a big expert although I do have my qualifications; I always say the best strategy is always to think of your audience. What better way to ensure their satisfaction than ensure every detail is described as much as possible? They payed to watch a movie, not think :bow
This simultaneously explains why you think 2001 and Blade Runner are average and why you'll always have trouble appreciating art.
A bright, new-like Cadillac...The irony in this failed. Rowling is at the best of times an above average author.
I've never witnessed such descriptive prose. Clearly Shake is a Rowling among boys :bow
Considering the draft is dated December, 2007, I'm guessing after. The fact that the movie opens with a pretentious Freud quote is :lol ...did he really get the title from the Criterion box set? That's just sad, if so.
Damn... Sounds better then The Bourne series.Maybe he should rename the movie The StillBourne: Miscarriage
I applaud the young Miles Trahan for making his screenplay public and welcoming the criticism that follows publishing any written work. My thoughts are similar to Prole's - yeah, it's garbage, but at least it's coherent and has structure, no matter how cliche it is. I personally wouldn't make any screenplay I wrote public; there's too much to lose. A few folks have my favorite screenplay, but even I know I'm (at best) a mediocre writer that feels safe within genre films. I write what I want to see and I think overreaching is the worst thing any writer can do. I'm being offered a pay gig to write a script based off a treatment and I'm probably going to turn it down because I don't think I'm good enough to really make a decent screenplay out of the idea. Although, a much more talented writer could.
lordmaji, did you read the screenplay?
Whatever happened to the dark shake?
Who's more likely to make it in Hollywood - Shake, Willco, or FoC?
I predict my new wave of german expressionistic-inspired pornography will be bigger than ANYTHING they do.
He's at Mupepe.com with the rest of the gang :bow
We'll be in control of EB in 4 years. TVC/Drinky/MAF will be too OLD for the internet
He's at Mupepe.com with the rest of the gang :bow
We'll be in control of EB in 4 years. TVC/Drinky/MAF will be too OLD for the internet
You say that like it's a bad thing. I'll be glad when I'm gone from these forums. Fuck EB, you can have it.
:(He's at Mupepe.com with the rest of the gang :bow
We'll be in control of EB in 4 years. TVC/Drinky/MAF will be too OLD for the internet
You say that like it's a bad thing. I'll be glad when I'm gone from these forums. Fuck EB, you can have it.
Same here. Goes for any forum, really.
I thought mupepe deleted mupepe.com
also, LOL at your Pizza the Hutt reference.
My screenplays are basically just 3 hours of people looking at the ceiling, moon-eyed, saying things like
(http://i9.tinypic.com/81su5fk.jpg)
Edit: Oh and the part about the stalker being all in his head or part of himself is a pretty neat idea that could be expounded upon in a more serious/creepy/gritty film.
Edit: Oh and the part about the stalker being all in his head or part of himself is a pretty neat idea that could be expounded upon in a more serious/creepy/gritty film.
They did that in the movie Thr3e. It was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Im never going to post my scripts online. :lol
Im never going to post my scripts online. :lol
i think we would like the touching scene of you, ron paul and a bar of gold in "goldfingered."
I talked to an Alaskan politician living in Austin who is finding a story that is based on the Ron Paul candidacy.
Edit: Oh and the part about the stalker being all in his head or part of himself is a pretty neat idea that could be expounded upon in a more serious/creepy/gritty film.
They did that in the movie Thr3e. It was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Oh, well was it just bad film making or is the concept you think, stupid?
TDS :-*
What's your beef with him Ichi? I don't care to spend a minute reading any of it, but why is it necessary to track down something someone did around here and shit all over it?
TDS :-*
What's your beef with him Ichi? I don't care to spend a minute reading any of it, but why is it necessary to track down something someone did around here and shit all over it?
ichi and tds have a long history on the mupepe.com forums where you post regularly. in fact, given that forum's microscopic span of existence and userbase, it's fair to say that the ichi/tds relationship IS that forum's history. go through the archive, and you'll find the details of their brooding, misanthropic romance.
that said, tds is a total fucking knob, as his posting history will prove -- he expected to be treated like some sort of expert in the realm of cinema, when he turned out to be another pop cinema fanboy without any literary credentials to speak of. now, normally, that's fine, but it also behooves you to recognize when people know a great deal more than you and to back off, instead of immediately escalating and shitting up every adjacent thread to boot, which is shake's modus operandi. fuck, i'm no bastion of cinematic knowledge, but you don't see me getting in these pissing matches because i know when i'm out of my depth. shake, on the other hand, is apparently into watersports.
i'm sure this response will engender the predictable "wah wah eb elitists" circlejerk over at moop's forum, but if there's any place in this world where we shouldn't have to mollycoddle the egos of idiots, it's the internet. getting e-respect isn't a matter of knowledge, or a matter of experience; it's a matter of personal policy.
I never paid attention to the old drama on that board before the original version went down. I also know that TDS is a bit of a lighting rod when it comes to drawing attention to himself and he always seems to get himself into shit. But I don't understand the reasoning behind tracking down something that someone put work into to needlessly bash it on here.
Just as I think it's pointless and immature for cheebs/synbios to troll ichi and spam other people, I too think it's dumb to just bring up a random thread with the sole intent of embarrassing another person. Let bygones be bygones and all that.
And there are a lot of elitists around here. Nobody has to run to another board to say that and one would be stupid to deny that. I'm not sure what that has to do with my question, but maybe I'll wah wah my way over to mups place and ask. I should get a reply within 7-15 days, depending on that forum's traffic. :lol
Edit: Oh and the part about the stalker being all in his head or part of himself is a pretty neat idea that could be expounded upon in a more serious/creepy/gritty film.
They did that in the movie Thr3e. It was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Oh, well was it just bad film making or is the concept you think, stupid?
Im never going to post my scripts online. :lol
And there are a lot of elitists around here. Nobody has to run to another board to say that and one would be stupid to deny that. I'm not sure what that has to do with my question, but maybe I'll wah wah my way over to mups place and ask. I should get a reply within 7-15 days, depending on that forum's traffic. :lol
So what are the chances that upon going into film school, the vast majority of the students are Shake-like idiots that just want to make carbon copies of the garbage of recent years?
MONSTERS AND MADMEN 2:
Donald Kaufman: The killer, the girl, and the cop all have split-personalities. They're all the same person. Isn't that fucked up?
Here you go. The killer's a literature professor. He cuts off little chunks from his victims' bodies until they die. He calls himself "the deconstructionist".
I do have Being John Malkovich in glorious Sonykiller HD-DVD format.
This was the first movie our family ever owned on DVD and I have it on my computer here at work. Yet...I've never watched it. Never even started to watch it. I don't know why, as I hear it's pretty awesome and I would expect it to be so.
Not asking you to regret anything...I just don't see how this thread was warranted. Ahh well, I guess I've derailed enough. Carry on.
Outside of TVC and Ichi there are no "experts" here, only snobs and pretentious jerks who propagate a vast elitist wing conspiracy
Outside of TVC and Ichi there are no "experts" here, only snobs and pretentious jerks who propagate a vast elitist wing conspiracy
Outside of TVC and Ichi there are no "experts" here, only snobs and pretentious jerks who propagate a vast elitist wing conspiracy
Yeah, I know. It's weird to me how people assume I'm just picking on Shake with ulterior motives. I also made a thread a while back making fun of Andrew Vestal for comparing Final Fantasy VII to Shakespeare (this was back when Vestal was a teenager, so it's just more proof that I'm more amused by teenage dumbassery than anything else)! I'm an equal opportunity asshole, basically.
:(He's at Mupepe.com with the rest of the gang :bow
We'll be in control of EB in 4 years. TVC/Drinky/MAF will be too OLD for the internet
You say that like it's a bad thing. I'll be glad when I'm gone from these forums. Fuck EB, you can have it.
Same here. Goes for any forum, really.spoiler (click to show/hide):'([close]
Yeah, I know. It's weird to me how people assume I'm just picking on Shake with ulterior motives. I also made a thread a while back making fun of Andrew Vestal for comparing Final Fantasy VII to Shakespeare (this was back when Vestal was a teenager, so it's just more proof that I'm more amused by teenage dumbassery than anything else)! I'm an equal opportunity asshole, basically.
Sweet. Does your services work w/ affirmative action too? :)
dumpI clicked the pdf link and it's dead. Where is the script? :'(