tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000498.post112489421767387640..comments2024-03-22T22:27:57.474-04:00Comments on Inside the Hotdog Factory: NY Times: "After so many summer blockbusters flopped, H-wood exec wonder if many of their movies are just not good enough"Whetam Gnauckweirsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06038247522187261808noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000498.post-1125063179995370612005-08-26T09:32:00.000-04:002005-08-26T09:32:00.000-04:00As Larry Brown writes in his book Big Bad Love, "I...As Larry Brown writes in his book <I>Big Bad Love</I>, "It's the same old Colossus that's got one foot planted in Art, the other in Commerce, and he's pissing on your head while he's wearing your wristwatch."<BR/><BR/><I>Down By Law</I> features Tom Waits in the lead, if I'm not mistaken.<BR/><BR/>I also thought <I>In Cold Blood</I> with future-murderer, Robert Blake, was extremely well done. Bleak, but fascinating.Whetam Gnauckweirsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06038247522187261808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000498.post-1125000323141595012005-08-25T16:05:00.000-04:002005-08-25T16:05:00.000-04:00I think putting a child in peril is a cheap way ou...I think putting a child in peril is a cheap way out of improving story writing and actually making their characters come alive. Whereas now they might as well replace the actors with cardboard cut-outs, we'd never know the difference.Ascendantlivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13935500609993327660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000498.post-1124999871975774182005-08-25T15:57:00.000-04:002005-08-25T15:57:00.000-04:00I think you're dead right about there being such a...I think you're dead right about there being such a list. I've read that Hollywood screenplays MUST have a sex scene within the first 12-15 pages.<BR/><BR/>The theme I've gotten very sick of is the "child in peril" hook. The populace has become so jaded and insensate that filmmakers (and makers of commercials) have to place a child in jeopardy for anyone to care. Take a regular adult hostage in a film, most of the audience would shrug and think, "Who gives a fuck? Blow his head off." Because that adult would probably remind them of someone who cut them off in traffic or beat them out of a promotion at work.Whetam Gnauckweirsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06038247522187261808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000498.post-1124999514347821042005-08-25T15:51:00.000-04:002005-08-25T15:51:00.000-04:00Hollywood Moveie Plot Checklist: 1)Action star who...Hollywood Moveie Plot Checklist: <BR/>1)Action star who kills at least 100 people.<BR/>2)Airplane crash<BR/>3)Bad guy with lots of guns<BR/>4)Hot blonde/brunette who can't act but mesmerizes men with her tits<BR/>5)Exploding Car<BR/>6)Action Hero dives behind wall to avoid gunfire<BR/>7)Badly coreographed fight scene<BR/>8)One or more bombs<BR/>9)Evil plot to destroy America, rape children, poison puppies, or genreally kill everyone in a designated area such as New York or L.A.<BR/>10)Good guy action hero with socks in his pants kills badguy by reversing the evil plot, fucks mesmerizing blonde/brunette and then say 'Let's go home, babe' because no one can remember the babe's name.<BR/><BR/>I think this is the list prodcuers keep at their desks. If everything checks off they pledge 100 mil to the movie because sadly they know the tits are worth at least 200 mil.Ascendantlivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13935500609993327660noreply@blogger.com