What\u2019s with movies these days? They\u2019re either a reboot, a musical reboot, or franchise related (reboot).\u00a0 Ok, I forgot the formula rom com, overdone spy adventure and the cross-genre identical plots. Where has all the originality gone? Don\u2019t tell me that the world of screenwriters cannot create a unique and entertaining movie. Seriously, don\u2019t try it. There\u2019s something like 50,000 scripts written a year, a measly 50 of which get produced. Why are the 50 worst movies being chosen for production recently?<\/p>\n
Okay, I know why. Because they\u2019ll sell. It\u2019s a big gamble running with an idea that might be too complicated or high-concept for the mass population to swallow. So, instead they choose what works. A plug and chug, stereotyped narrative or a fresh view on an old classic. For one, they\u2019re called classics for a reason. Don\u2019t mess with it! It did well on its own (when it was original\u2026). The few movies that slip through the cracks that offer the audience a way to exercise their brain are more often than not, written by well respected (read: already popular) screenwriters or directors. Where\u2019s the love for the kid from Iowa who has been pounding on his keyboard for years? Or the Manhattan socialite who has a bone-chilling expose?\u00a0 Are their stories not worth telling?<\/p>\n
Am I talking about book writers, too?\u00a0 Sure! Why else would there be such a booming industry of self-published and independently published authors? Because Nora Roberts has a bajillion and one romance novels that practically write themselves (read: ghostwriter). Honestly, the books that are published look like carbon copies of each other half the time. I mean, everyone loves a sexy vampire, right? Oh, yeah\u2026wrong complaint. My point is that the mass market audience would enjoy an original plot as much, if not more<\/em>, than something that\u2019s predictable or rebooted. Juno is a great example. Or Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy. Greatness is<\/strong> out there!<\/p>\n Yes, I\u2019m well aware the reason many books and screenplays aren\u2019t brought to the next level of production is because they aren\u2019t good. That\u2019s fine. But believe you me, there are plenty of stories that made it that also are not<\/em> good.\u00a0 Give creativity a chance. Please, for the sake of our entertainment. Show me the originality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What\u2019s with movies these days? They\u2019re either a reboot, a musical reboot, or franchise related (reboot).\u00a0 Ok, I forgot the formula rom com, overdone spy adventure and the cross-genre identical plots. Where has all the originality gone? Don\u2019t tell me that the world of screenwriters cannot create a unique and entertaining movie. Seriously, don\u2019t try […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,50,44,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-event","category-musings","category-screenplay","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YHlB-1r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}