movie talks

What is the most interesting job you have ever had or have ever heard of?
A person that watches paint dry is the most strange job I've ever heard of. There is a man living in the United Kingdom that watches paint dry in order to test how long new paint mixes take to dry and watches for any change in color or texture. This is a boring job but at least this doesn't require any degree. Good for this man.

If you had special magical powers, what would you do with them?
I would choose telepathy since I'm lazy and want to move things on my own. I can manipulate people to perform actions and embarrass them. I can move my laptop to me. I can do many things. However, I imagine this will make myself tired the more I use it and that's great because I love to sleep.

movie theaters or streaming?

Personally, I like to stream my content because I pay less to access more. The movie theaters are always hot and stuffy, the food is expensive, and I can never guarantee a quiet theater since there is that one person that generally ruins everything. For streaming services, the prices start at about ten dollars a month and now I have an entire selection to choose from.

Although the movie theaters provide an environment to spend time with family and friends and enjoy a night out together, I don't do that to begin with. That is not quality time for my family, and my mother doesn't feel safe in movie theaters for whatever reason.

I can also play back a scene as many times as I want, either because I enjoyed it or I missed something important. With going to a movie theater, if I don't understand it before the scene is over, then that sucks for me.

Movie theaters are fun to be in but streaming is a better deal in the end and I'm really cheap.

Lastly, my contribution to the film industry affects the evolution of the platform since I'm not the only one paying for my entertainment. The industry is getting extremely rich and profiting off a major audience. The film industry is becoming more popular than books, which has never happened over the course of history and the reason for this attributes to the audience and convergence. If no one supported the industry, film would never be at the place that it is currently.

how to land your first tv writing job!

Just to make this clear, I am not telling you how to get the job. I'm reading about that too.

I learned that the writing process for television shows include a lot of conference meetings with other writers and drinking coffee along the way. The industry is hard to break unless you have great connections. It is not easy to simply walk into a studio and place your prompts on a desk and expect that to be adapted.

You have to learn the craft of television writing in order to be an expert at it.
For example:

• Take classes to familiarize yourself with the course and know what genres work on television. Demographics, animation, budget, etc.
• Another option is to read reference books because in order to write for television, you need to know what's already on there and what's already popular.
• Don't look at your episode from your perspective, but consider the audience and whether or not they'll be entertained. Will they understand the plot the way that you do?
• Characters, structure, and tone are super important in a show. All scripts have a structure too!
• The biggest advice is to accept criticism. This is the only way to improve on your writing and appeal to a broader audience.
• The big brother to criticism is rejection, which is also important. Your scripts will not always be chosen or well liked and that is okay, because this humbles yourself and challenges you to create a better episode.

Now that I know how to write for television, I don't need to go to School of the Arts anymore.

the birth of the simpsonian institution

Main points from the article:

• The Simpsons is not only expected to come out with solid episodes each time, but full-on transcendent.
  - I personally disagree with this but I digress. I don't understand the appeal of the show.
• The show captures an entire crowd and actually provokes laughter because there is real comedy. This is "spontaneous" and "enormous," as well as nothing this author has ever seen before.
• Simpsons brings the audience together in a unity that has never been seen before.
• There is an overall agreement that the show is revolutionary and witty for the direction. The appeal is across all audiences.
• The Simpsons take what is already controversial and discussed in three minute pop songs, but does that in half hour shows.
• The show takes real life events such as the death of Kurt Cobain and adapts that into their show. Good way to commemorate but is this a marketing stunt?
• This author is really praising the fuck out of the show. "Not just a show you watched but a language you spoke, a worldview you adopted" ??? What? He sounds like a flat earther.
• The show IS a language!
• The show has a degree of freedom unparalleled in mainstream entertainment.
• More influential than rock and roll!

I can respect the author's appreciation of the series and the feat in which the show has accomplished but this author is really taking it to the next level just to get his paycheck early. I don't think the show is that serious and the author comes off as not wanting to take any criticisms at all. I never liked the show or met anyone that invested in it. The Simpsons is a show people watch when they are bored. Then again, I hate American cartoons like The Simpsons but stuff like Family Guy/King of the Hill as well. Actually, I think the author was born in the 90s and wanted to show off that he grew up in the 90s to show off how cool he is for living during the 90s. (He was born in the 70s but the rest of the sentence still applies)

Ancestors of the show: The Flintstones, SNL

Descendants of the show: Family Dog, South Park

Okay this isn't a show but a movie that is inspired by The Simpsons. It's called The Hangover and used an episode entitled "Viva Ned Flanders" in order to create a plot for the movie. This is really cool because a company can take one episode and then create a two hour movie using the plot! Although there aren't that many resemblances (of course), there are many bizarre shared elements between the two that are too coincidental to not associate.