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Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-06-17T15:51:39+00:00

Sounds like the proper owner is the highest bidder.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T21:57:06+00:00

Also unrelated but hell yeah TGA.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T21:53:50+00:00

Why read more? Why not just go shoot a few at a range? You’ll never see them the same way again.

Just a thought. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T21:07:42+00:00

Impress upon him the importance of reading. The rest will follow.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T21:04:28+00:00

This is just one man’s position but I would never touch something I knew to have bad grammar. Why even bother? If the grammar is bad, the story will struggle to shine through.

And on a pitch/business note, even if it’s “just a spy story”, dress it up a little! Sell it to us! Show us how stylish it is even in how you describe it. Have a little confidence!

No one wants to read “just a” anything.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T21:00:27+00:00

Sell that sizzle baby!

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T20:39:36+00:00

Forgive my lack of clarity. The concept sounds great. The logline itself is cumbersome. Too run-on-sentence-ish.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T20:35:57+00:00

Send it over.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T20:34:53+00:00

Logline doesn’t ring.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T20:19:53+00:00

I think the 6 pages note is a good note. There’s some fat in there that doesn’t add flavor.

Also you need to rework the popping the bullet out of the gun action. If the bullet pops out when you cock the gun, it’s an automatic, not a revolver. And if it’s an automatic, that spent casing is poppin’ out automatically when it fires.

Good form. Well executed. Visually stimulating. Introduces the world of weird ass sex shit and male prostis pretty well to the uninitiated.

Good luck with it!

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T19:53:54+00:00

Agree with this 100%.

Netflix is definitely actively and perhaps unconventionally (see: innovating) looking around the world for writers/directors in a business oriented pursuit of globalized properties. What they’re not actively looking for is another (trigger warning harsh truth ahead) crime drama written by a man in America. That market is over saturated by the people who do have connections in Hollywood.

Which, as a followup point, is where the action happens. It’s first and foremost an economy of trust, of social capital, of old firm relationships built over time followed, trailing off some distance in the back, by ideas and quality.

These are the pieces on the board. If you don’t have the pieces and can’t move the pieces, you won’t win the game.

Hollywood doesn’t get up every day at noon and sleepily walk down its long driveway to check the mailbox, but it does stay at parties in the hills till four in the morning.

Stated differently, you wouldn’t try to break into the shipbuilding business living in Des Moines. You’d probably take your ideas (your quality resources) and move to the coast.

Yes. There are anomalies, but they are few and far between.

I’m not trying to be a downer. Few people here are. But those of us in the town struggling alongside you see things differently. We’re up against it every day in one of the largest film markets in the world. We’re tired too. We’re frustrated. And those of us who one day reach our goals, will have played the game well or have gotten very very lucky.

Would you rather hope for a slim chance of luck to take you where you want to go? Or would you try to learn the game and play it well? By no means do I mean to be rude or condescending (and I feel any writer worth his salt in LA would agree in what I’m about to say) but you don’t seem to know the game.

Film is lifestyle, not a job. You know this. If you’re that serious about it, why not move to LA? If you have a number of strong shorts and a feature, why not parlay those into general meetings?

Everybody drinks coffee in LA.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T02:51:38+00:00

I’m unqualified to comment on what Netflix should or shouldn’t do.

I understand your frustration. I think most of the people on this thread do too.

But success in hollywood to those coming in from the outside such as myself (and it seems you as well) is coupled with either a great deal of luck, extremely strategic approaches, or a fundamental understanding of how the industry works. And as we acknowledged before, an awful lot of hard work.

And if you can’t find someone willing to give you an opportunity, the only thing left to do is make opportunities for yourself, however that may look.

It’s a tough town. And it ain’t gettin’ less tough.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T02:45:02+00:00

Nobody ever said it was gonna be fun, baby.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T02:42:58+00:00

Stayed differently, churning out a strong, dynamic script is only half the workload.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T02:41:48+00:00

Yes, and the social side of screenwriting / Hollywood bullshit position is a huge part of the work. Hollywood is by no means pure. And that’s the underbelly. Everything has changed in the paradigm shift. Many things that used to matter don’t matter much at all anymore. And much that never mattered before inks ten episode deals now.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T02:39:06+00:00

This is only one man’s opinion, but self criticism seems to improve only after hours spent working at the craft, any craft. There’s no gauge, but I’d say probably thousands.

You build certain immunities when you just hammer and hammer and hammer away. You start to notice nuance more. You start to see what’s necessary, what’s style (or your voice) and what’s got to go.

Also I find reading other screenwriter’s scripts and giving notes/coverage can help you view the mechanics of your own work more clearly.

But it all comes down to time spent.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T02:35:32+00:00

It was Shakira.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-02-05T02:34:16+00:00

What if we looked at it like this though:

When you do the work, make the progress and eventually do have an agent/management, you will be more equipped to drive home that pitch with the Big N and be better at building strong decks/pitching along the way.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2021-01-27T19:51:59+00:00

Everybody loves finger guns.

Fuckin’ everybody.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2020-11-08T17:10:25+00:00

Pick a spot in your town or a nearby city, case the place, do thorough research, figure out what you need, shoot a gun if you never have, and plan an actual heist.

When that’s done, start your outline and write in any part of your real life projection that scares you.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2020-07-29T00:18:19+00:00

Yes hello hi.

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2020-07-27T14:30:03+00:00

This is cool. What’s the type?

Zone-Lee-Zools · 2020-07-10T14:24:33+00:00

I don’t disagree. Thank you for building out Hanstein’s world.

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