The Frenzy '09 Support Thread - Page 2

Kevy Baby · 04-09-2009, 10:53 AM

If we wish an actor to "break a leg", what do you wish a script writer?

Disneyphile · 04-09-2009, 10:54 AM

That wasn't a typo. It was part of the new LOLPres phenomenon.

Morrigoon · 04-09-2009, 10:55 AM

That's teh awesome!

Strangler Lewis · 04-09-2009, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

Oh my gosh, I had just planned to walk ignorantly into the good night without any thought of legal at all!

I never doubted you for a second. It just seems that, notwithstanding its enshrinement in our constitution, the kids today don't have much regard for kindly old Mr. Copyright.

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Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

Seriously, though, the general process for untested writers, as I understand it, is to adapt the work, or at least part of it, as a spec script before rights are requested - so that the author can consider the spec script before granting anything. And that's what I'm doing now.

That's good to know. Now, I can get to work on my screenplay inspired by the spermcube.

Withering criticism alert: Ideas 2 & 4 genuinely intrigue me. Ideas 1 & 3 set off my alarms that the stories are going to be about jokes & gestures & moments that will resonate to the author and her quirky friends but will not have sufficient universal appeal. Of course, movies and shows about people and their quirky friends get made all the time whereas movies that, to use a random example, set the Oedipus story in the Clinton White House, don't. So what do I know? I look forward to reading anything you're inclined to share.

LSPoorEeyorick · 04-09-2009, 12:57 PM

I really do appreciate your support, SL.

Before you make a judgment on 1 & 3 as focused on jokes and gestures, you should definitely read them. (And I'll share them, in the long run.) A log-line may express the point in just one sentence, but it can never encapsulate the whole! Storytelling, for me, really needs to be about characters and their relationships, and I intend to reflect that in each of them. (This has been a frequent topic lately in our household, inspired by a show created by one of our favorite writers who has eschewed his usual character-development stories for one about non-development.)

Eliza Hodgkins 1812 · 04-09-2009, 01:59 PM

Tomorrow, I shall read! I'd say I'm drooling with anticipating, but you would be able to glance over at my desk and know I'm exaggerating. So, I am invisibly quaking with anticipation.

Also, I very much want to read that short story. Unfamiliar with the writer.

LSPoorEeyorick · 04-09-2009, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

...set the Oedipus story in the Clinton White House...

If it isn't headed toward movie, I bet it would make a great novel! In which case, I look forward to reading it.

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I very much want to read that short story. Unfamiliar with the writer.

I can lend you the book if you like! (I will be done with it in May.) I think you will love it. I wanted to hug it.

Eliza Hodgkins 1812 · 04-09-2009, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

I can lend you the book if you like! (I will be done with it in May.) I think you will love it. I wanted to hug it.

Yes, please.

innerSpaceman · 04-09-2009, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

the kids today don't have much regard for kindly old Mr. Copyright.

Maybe that's because kindly old Mr. Copyright refuses to die, like all things are supposed to. Tell me where it's enshrined in the constitution that copyrights are endless, and works never, ever become public domain.

Sorry for the potentially derailing rant. But old Mr. Copyright should be put out of our misery.

Kevy Baby · 04-09-2009, 03:07 PM

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Sorry for the potentially derailing rant. But old Mr. Copyright should be put out of our misery.

You can't be saying that copyright laws should be banished in their entirety? Maybe a cap should be put on it, but not abolished altogether.

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Eliza Hodgkins 1812 Sputnik Sweetheart Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Long Beach Posts: 2,685	Tomorrow, I shall read! I'd say I'm drooling with anticipating, but you would be able to glance over at my desk and know I'm exaggerating. So, I am invisibly quaking with anticipation. Also, I very much want to read that short story. Unfamiliar with the writer.
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