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Arash Amel
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Don’t be rude, you’ll get blocked. YNWA. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Butterfly
Jul 14, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
With MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING (Part 1) looking very shaky at the B.O. this week, it looks like we are seeing a disastrous summer Box Office. Where did it go wrong? The answer is pretty simple. (A THREAD on creative risk.) Risk aversion to original ideas or IP, rampant corporatization of movie studios as off-shoots of media monoliths, the reduction of the role of the creative movie executive to corporate brand manager, and the need to go bigger to please Wall Street. Because you see...
Jan 14, 2022 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
SCREENWRITING PRO TIP: A FRIDAY THREAD.
The script isn't the movie. The movie is the movie. The screenplay is the idea of what the movie could be, but ... it's also the bible for the story. Its structure. Its themes. & vitally the characters that bring that story & theme to life. The process of filmmaking is interpretation. Whether you like it or not, the ideas you've put down on the page will have to be interpreted by hundreds of talented and skilled professionals (whose job is to make the movie) real before it becomes a movie.