Comments on: Debunking the “profits come first” myth http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-07-10_724 Because we care about stuff Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:49:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jennifer Kesler http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-07-10_724/comment-page-1#comment-172547 Jennifer Kesler Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:17:41 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/?p=724#comment-172547 Jim, if you'd read a bit more carefully, you might have noticed that I included "film professionals" among those who gave me that advice. I naturally assumed my professors were wrong, but then I went to work in film and got all the same crap from successful producers, directors, agents, etc. Ironically, many of them agreed with me (that women make interesting characters and the audience was more tolerant of them than HW thought), but the reality of the situation was that HW believed certain things, and wasn't going to be convinced otherwise. So, wanna try another rationalization? ;) Jim, if you’d read a bit more carefully, you might have noticed that I included “film professionals” among those who gave me that advice. I naturally assumed my professors were wrong, but then I went to work in film and got all the same crap from successful producers, directors, agents, etc. Ironically, many of them agreed with me (that women make interesting characters and the audience was more tolerant of them than HW thought), but the reality of the situation was that HW believed certain things, and wasn’t going to be convinced otherwise.

So, wanna try another rationalization? ;)

]]> By: Jim http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-07-10_724/comment-page-1#comment-172283 Jim Thu, 14 May 2009 06:43:27 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/?p=724#comment-172283 Making a film or television show has always been an extremely expensive business. The non creative types running these large corporations have an obligation to reduce risk. They generally interpret this as avoiding anything new or original despite the fact that every huge success in film or TV has broken one mold or another. No one would have built a show around a white woman married to a Cuban male, had Lucille Ball not insisted on working with her husband. No one was spending millions on space operas before Star Wars. Until Tyler Perry, no one was making family films for a church going black audience. So while I am sure BetaCandy received horrible advice from her screenwriting professors, she should realize that they're professors for a reason, most couldn't hack it in the business. She should continue to be true to herself as that's the only way that has ever worked. Making a film or television show has always been an extremely expensive business. The non creative types running these large corporations have an obligation to reduce risk. They generally interpret this as avoiding anything new or original despite the fact that every huge success in film or TV has broken one mold or another. No one would have built a show around a white woman married to a Cuban male, had Lucille Ball not insisted on working with her husband. No one was spending millions on space operas before Star Wars. Until Tyler Perry, no one was making family films for a church going black audience. So while I am sure BetaCandy received horrible advice from her screenwriting professors, she should realize that they’re professors for a reason, most couldn’t hack it in the business. She should continue to be true to herself as that’s the only way that has ever worked.

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