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Usenet Posted 21 years ago
Screenwriting

Anybody watch Project Greenlight?

I wonder how Ben Affleck and Matt Damon feel, since they had to cave to the studio's desire to go for the most commercially viable film, even though everyone in the room agreed that it wasn't the best story?

I mean, these two are the marketing names; they are the reason this project even exists, and why at least half the audience is paying any attention whatsoever. Yet *** triumphed over Damon's impassioned plea for Art in the end.
Then they totally shocked me by

Picking the socially inept guy as the director! I mean, the guy's interview was embarassing to watch! He did zero to sell himself as a director! At one point he started making hoof noises with his mouth, for no apparent reason!
They kept saying that technically, he was the best director, but all the professionals were basically dreading having to work with the guy because of his social awkwardness.
Should be interesting to watch.
Lois
  

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[nq:1]I wonder how Ben Affleck and Matt Damon feel, since they had to cave to the studio's desire to go ... whatsoever. Yet *** triumphed over Damon's impassioned plea for Art in the end.

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  • [nq:1]I wonder how Ben Affleck and Matt Damon feel, since they had to cave to the studio's desire to go ...
  • whatsoever.
  • Yet *** triumphed over Damon's impassioned plea for Art in the end.
  • Then they totally shocked me by [/nq] What the audience pays for is seeing movies containing actors they easily remember from previous movies that made an impression on them at the box office.
  • So what we end up with in Hollydorks is a bunch of bad or barely-semi-acceptable actors who happen to be in a popular movie a couple of times and end up on the front of magazines, when in fact they acted well two out of thirteen hundred times, because the real attraction to movies is not the actors, it is the writers.
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[nq:1]I wonder how Ben Affleck and Matt Damon feel, since they had to cave to the studio's desire to go ... whatsoever. Yet *** triumphed over Damon's impassioned plea for Art in the end. Then they totally shocked me by [/nq]
What the audience pays for is seeing movies containing actors they easily remember from previous movies that made an impression on them at the box office. So what we end
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[nq:1]I wonder how Ben Affleck and Matt Damon feel, since they had to caveto the studio's desire to go for ... were basically dreading having to work with the guy because of his social awkwardness. Should be interesting to watch. Lois[/nq]
What I particularly loved was the moment at the end when the socially inept director, having won, was embraced and congratulated by his father and who was h
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And I'm not just saying that cuz I'm sitting here drunk at my oregon swimming pool drinking iced tea. Honest.
hic
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The thing about John is - he had the best short film. You can go to the Greenlight site and see all 3 finalist's films, and there's only one that actually looks like a movie... and that's John's.

- Bill (who may be in a later episode)
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[nq:1]I wonder how Ben Affleck and Matt Damon feel, since they had to cave to the studio's desire to go ... half the audience is paying any attention whatsoever. Yet *** triumphed over Damon's impassioned plea for Art in the end.[/nq]
Yeah, I thought Damon made a telling point that team member Wes Craven, the modern master of the horror movie (Constantine notwithstanding, apparently I haven't
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[nq:1]Now, with the third series, they're shooting a crappy derivative horror movie and they picked a director who's the son of a Hollywood actor.[/nq]
Wait this is the third one of these things?
hooboy.
Mysti
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[nq:1]What I particularly loved was the moment at the end when the socially inept director, having won, was embraced ... originally, a Hollywood outsider who'd never get a shot at making a movie write and direct his own feature?[/nq]
But if ever there were Hollywood outsiders, it's Clu and his family! I got to know Clu quite well when he did a movie for me years ago, and he's more of a charact
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The whole eipsode was hard to watch. That tubby director is a trainwreck. I had sympathy for him for about 2 minutes but he's actually pretty arrogant. I predict they will axe this psycho before they lose all their ***.
The screenwriters look halfway decent but that fat dumpy director is about to bring them all crashing down.
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Q:The whole eipsode was hard to watch. That tubby director is a Q:trainwreck. I had sympathy for him for about 2 minutes but he's Q:actually pretty arrogant. I predict they will axe this psycho before Q:they lose all their ***.
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Q:The screenwriters look halfway decent but that fat dumpy director is Q:about to bring them all crashing down.
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Can you believe that John Gulag
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[nq:1]The whole eipsode was hard to watch. That tubby director is a trainwreck. I had sympathy for him for about ... their ***. The screenwriters look halfway decent but that fat dumpy director is about to bring them all crashing down.[/nq]
I'm confused? How is this any different from Woody Allen or Terry Gillian wanting to work with his core group of actors, except that Gulager isn't terribly
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