tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859940184293909528.post8597424318582037169..comments2023-04-28T04:20:05.766-07:00Comments on WRITER on WRITING: On Your Mark... Get Set...Virtual Strangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01040333093180694172noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859940184293909528.post-60193059651423880802011-01-28T23:12:13.083-08:002011-01-28T23:12:13.083-08:00And don't post spam on my blog and think you w...And don't post spam on my blog and think you won't get slammed over it.Virtual Strangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01040333093180694172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859940184293909528.post-62511852175211873712011-01-28T23:11:31.493-08:002011-01-28T23:11:31.493-08:00Yeeeeeaaahhhh...
See, this is exactly the reason ...Yeeeeeaaahhhh...<br /><br />See, this is exactly the reason I can't stand 95% of all gurus. You must understand this. You can't succeed without that. You cannot write a screenplay without this. And it backs these claims up with a bunch of very loose parallels between summaries that were written to create those parallels. <br /><br />Seriously, look at those "summaries" of <i>Star Wars</i> and <i>Harry Potter</i>. They ignore half the plot and tell a disjointed account in order to make it seem like there's a point-for-point correlation between them. Heck, the <i>Casablana</i>/ <i>When Harry Met Sally</i> one randomly switches characters to create parallels. At different points in these summaries, Sally is "paralleling" Rick, Ilsa, and/or Victor Lazlo. Heck, why didn't he mention the end of the film, when she also stands in for Louis, Major Strasse, and the Maltese Falcon?<br /><br />Yeah it's from a different movie. So what? If you don't understand how it counts <i>you cannot write a screenplay!</i><br /><br />Kal Bashir (not one single credit of any sort on IMDb... or anywhere else aside from his self-published eBook) apparently thinks these loose connections are worth $200. And I'm sure he's conned a few people into giving it to him.<br /><br />Here's a much more telling link. <i><b>Vanity Fair</b></i> did a piece on Robert McKee, one of the most respected screenwriting gurus in the world. And they show how his claims fall apart under scrutiny, too...<br /><br />http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2009/11/robert-mckee-200911?currentPage=1<br /><br /><br /><br />(note to self... do rant about self-proclaimed gurus sometime in the near future...)Virtual Strangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01040333093180694172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859940184293909528.post-45730169589799411442011-01-28T03:47:25.160-08:002011-01-28T03:47:25.160-08:00For screenwriting, See Kal's deconstructions (...For screenwriting, See Kal's deconstructions (The King's Speech and Black Swan etc), accessible from http://www.clickok.co.uk/index4.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com