Wednesday, October 21, 2020

AMERICA'S REAL SUPREME COURT

 In the past brilliant persons (usually men in some difficulty) wrote a screen play that saved them with big checks.  No more.  Now people on salaries meet in a room to write for series television with a set of characters.  Once the “plot” doubled back when a movie was made about TV writers’ rooms.  You can order it on YouTube, which doubles back again on that movie venue.


“Academy Award-winning screenwriter ("The Descendants") and actor/comic ("Community") Jim Rash hosts "The Writers' Room," which opens doors into the minds of TV's creative thinkers. Each episode visits the writing team for one of television's pop-culture-defining scripted shows, among them "Breaking Bad," "Parks and Recreation," "Dexter," "Game of Thrones," "New Girl" and "American Horror Story." The round-table discussions -- both hilarious and candid in tone -- reveal rare insights behind plot points, tough decisions and big mistakes.” 


This description from nofilmschool.com tells how it works.  “Writers sit and break the story. In a new show, that means creating the bible, outlining the season, breaking each episode, and then writing drafts. Those drafts then get punched up by the room and sent to the network for notes. Once those notes come back, they get edited.”


https://nofilmschool.com/writers-room-definition


In other words, Writers’ Rooms are the true Supreme Courts of the USA.  And they are controlled by old white men with outdated ideas about what sells.  Look at the titles and you’ll see how their ideas have become translated into the realities we are living.  Even Trumpies. and esp. Trump himself, are controlled by movies they watch late at night with their guards down.


Someone oughta write a book!  Maybe a group of writers with a different vision than Tinsel Town.

2 comments:

  1. I have so much reading of your terrific blog to catch up. I recently flung Facebook at the mantel, and returned to my blog. It's like riding a bike after 40 years of being fed fast food and sugar. Now, I am remembering what it felt like to converse - have real conversations with substance and no "hey, look at this squirrel being flung around a pole!"

    Thanks, Mary, for perservering.

    CP

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  2. Thanks, Pattie. I still remember our conversations from many years ago. Valuable insights that persist.

    Prairie Mary

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