Posted by PTravel on 07/13/06 15:14

"Martin Heffels" <youwishyouwouldknow@nottellinya.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:34:10 GMT, "PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Have you seen many foreign films? They don't exhibit the same puritanical
>>attitudes that have overtaken the US.
>
> Indeed, they don't. But they don't have a "f*ck" in the dialogue every
> other sentence to tell the story.
>
>>> Blockbusters are made according to a specific formula. Don't tell me you
>>> don't know that?
>>
>>Sure. What's your point?
>
> Good, was just wondering :-) It's just that the only variation the
> majority
> of Hollywood-productions has, is different actors and different locations.
> But the stories are all the same, with a love-scene between the good guy
> and a girl somewhere in the middle (totally out of place, but that is what
> the studios think sells it better).

If you think the stories of all movies are the same, then I suggest you
don't watch any more movies. Most of us don't agree.

>And not to forget the happy ending,
> with a bunch of people clapping that all ended well.
> The swearing and the love-scene have to be in there, studio's wish (or
> demand), and a blonde girl with the usual attributes. The swearing can
> easily be cut out, because 99.99% of the time it doesn't add anything to
> the story.

Though there is a certain amount of formula involved, it is nowhere near as
cynically lock-step as you claim. I worked in the industry (as an actor)
for more than a decade before I quit and became a lawyer. I knew (and still
know) many writers and producers. You're simply wrong.

> Same with the love-scene.
> Therefor I don't find it censoring to cut these things out, because this
> kind of content is usually brought in in a later stage, to make it
> interesting for studios and investors, and not at the moment of creation
> of
> the story by the writer.

Absolutely and completely wrong.

> And I know this from speaking with a few people
> who have produced/written/directed feature-films.

And I know you're wrong from speaking with many people who have
produced/written/directed feature films.

>
> cheers
>
> -martin-
> --
> "I'm full of dust and guitars." - Syd Barrett
> 07/07/06 The Crazy Diamond is now a star in heaven

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