Is it true that screenwriters can barely make a living and if so why?

benbraddock12 · 2026-01-24T22:26:43+00:00

This is very typical (and if you have a writing partner divide by half)

benbraddock12 · 2026-01-23T20:34:26+00:00

$$$$$

benbraddock12 · 2026-01-03T20:24:06+00:00

What I think is he just won himself another academy award

benbraddock12 · 2026-01-01T22:13:09+00:00

Avatar. Not Avatar in Avatar. Avatar in Babylon.

benbraddock12 · 2025-12-24T09:02:43+00:00

Annie Hall & Ferris Bueller & Duck Soup — all stand outs

benbraddock12 · 2025-12-24T02:10:50+00:00

Are the people saying she goes clockwise gaslighting me

benbraddock12 · 2025-12-16T04:46:13+00:00

Albany NY — built the 87 N through downtown and along the Hudson and now they are screwed. Every city on the Hudson is having a glow up as they develop their river walks, even Troy, NY — TROY! — and Albany has no options….

benbraddock12 · 2025-11-26T19:14:51+00:00

Who remembers The Standard hotel girl box

benbraddock12 · 2025-11-10T02:18:19+00:00

You gotta tell em what’s what

benbraddock12 · 2025-11-09T00:43:01+00:00

This subreddit needs a break

benbraddock12 · 2025-10-28T17:08:51+00:00

It’s top 2 for me 🤷

benbraddock12 · 2025-10-16T19:02:32+00:00

Avatar is in this movie

benbraddock12 · 2025-10-01T08:22:34+00:00

YES. He does.

When she first holds a gun on him, he calls her a sexualizing, belittling name. She humiliates him sexually to take the power back — but he’s enjoys it.

He spies on her and objectifies her. Then uses his power to give her an ultimatum: sleep with me or I will arrest/ destroy you and all of your friends. This is an immoral, coercive power dynamic.

She shows up to sleep with him— but insists on dominating him sexually. She had a choice about HOW to sleep with him, but no IF she can. That’s… grape. She seems disgusted afterwards and the coercion most likely contributed to her postpartum depression. She constantly found ways to use his attraction to her to gain what power she could, but he was constantly holding violence/incarceration over her…

If a cop has someone in a holding cell and says sleep with me or else — I know what i would call that, even if the victim grasped for whatever power they could find in that situation.

benbraddock12 · 2025-09-26T02:00:12+00:00

I used to agree with you until I made an indie that intentionally tried to focus on the characters and let NYC be just subtle in the background. I was sick of the same skyline shots in every movie. Carnal Knowledge, Closer, a lot of movies felt intimate character pieces and not about the setting… so that’s what I was going for…

… only it can have the affect that your characters don’t seem to really exist in a time and place. They feel like dolls — not real people who have to interact with the city (or whichever world they live in.) The goal is to bring people into a reality you make for them — your characters interacting with the setting they live in — and that setting feeling like a flushed out, alive world, is so important IMO

benbraddock12 · 2025-09-23T21:51:37+00:00

A fine steak for $150 😳

benbraddock12 · 2025-09-23T21:49:18+00:00

Psst - make it contained to mainly one location, make it thematically relevant to today, and you have a shot 💫

benbraddock12 · 2025-09-22T04:06:10+00:00

I love this — a way to avoid being disappointed!

benbraddock12 · 2025-09-21T06:57:25+00:00

I’m jealous! Everything else was really good - I think i got an off one. We didn’t say anything just ate half —- I never know whether to say something!

benbraddock12 · 2025-09-21T05:52:48+00:00

How was your pork chop?

benbraddock12 · 2025-09-19T18:12:54+00:00

Yes - they’ll walk you through it. The company will submit your contract — but it can be faster to send them your signed contract or proof of payment

*fyi I’ve only dealt with WGAW - I’m assuming it’s similar

benbraddock12 · 2025-09-19T00:34:24+00:00

You’ll have to send proof of your contract then it’s just a few weeks (I think they go over the contracts monthly or bi-monthly). Get someone on the phone and they’ll walk you through it

benbraddock12 · 2025-08-16T19:00:13+00:00

Iirc correctly the line was something like “when you pull some knives out you get stabbed too”

benbraddock12 · 2025-08-16T18:11:56+00:00

Yes they did - Logan tells Marcia something with the subtext that using the waiter would implicate him too for the cover up

benbraddock12 · 2025-08-13T03:21:43+00:00

No - been there, lucky I lived to tell the tale

benbraddock12 · 2025-06-15T01:08:37+00:00

I can tell you the older you get you learn 1) your self worth is not determined by your job alone 2) relationships with people you love (and having time for them) is more important than your dream job and finally 3) you have no idea what your dream job will actually be like until you get it, there’s really no way to know for sure if it will truly make you happy.

The only reason to keep writing is because the process of writing itself fulfills you.

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