Re: writing a two hour movie script

You're an idiot, appropriately named "Zero". At least you got that
right. I live here, work here, have been providing advice for over a
decade on this stuff. You, meanwhile, are a bull*** spewer on Usenet.
Point mine, you lose, end of idiocy, you're outa here.

In article <1194733636.419297.214500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
$Zero <zeroisms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Nov 10, 9:59 am, Skipper <skipspaml...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1194694695.915773.292...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

$Zero <zeroi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
but since there's a much bigger paying market for screenplays than
novels...

and there's many more people trying to get their novels bought than
those trying to get their screenplays bought...

and the quality demands of novels is much higher than screenplays...

and the insider factor applies pretty much equally to both markets...

the math isn't very hard to do, even without all of the missing data.

You're astonishingly full of ***.

[bowing]

Approximately 60,000 books and novels are published by substantial houses
in the US each year. Approximately 500 movies are made by studios, and that
includes TV movies and small companies.

what a surprise to see an intellect such as yours compare apples and
oranges using numbers that have no source other than your own book.

you try to compare "books and novels" vs "movies made by studios"

in the former you include photography books, childrens books, how-to
books, tech manuals, cookbooks, and God knows what else.

in the latter you exclude tv episodes, documentaries, talk shows,
independent films, and the zillion screenplays that are bought but not
produced.

but to top it all off, you don't compare the number of aspiring
novelists to the number of aspiring screenwriters, nor do you compare
the amount of effort of each, nor the average cash made per effort.

i must say, as a researcher, your conclusions on the matter must
surely be golden.

but let's see if you can trott out some irrelevant fact to try to
sound credible:

Disney last year cut their number of movies in half.

because the market for movies is shrinking, right?

Gawd.

must be all those new cable channels and DVD players popping up all
over the place.


Most aspiring writers these days want to write scripts and
sell them for a million, not books or novels.

and your source for this utter nonsense?



Here's an example of how full of it you are.

oh goodie.


Eric Garcia, author of
Anonymous Rex, was an insider in Hollywood working for producer Al
Ruddy at one point (look them up, you might learn something for once).

learn something about what?

yikes.


When he wrote his novel (which didn't have that title) he found an
agent in Florida on the Net who sold the book for him.

presumably, the agent was an insider, no?


He ended up with three books and a TV series out of it.

i'll bet his relationship with Ruddy and/or others in the industry had
absolutely nothing to do with that at all.


He had NO insider anything in the novel realm,

nor did his agent for the novel, right?


and his Hollywood connections didn't help with the TV
series, the book sales did.

what a moronic conclusion.

OF COURSE the book sales helped.

duh.

but wait, i'll bet Eric didn't benefit at all from any of his
Hollywood connections in that, right?

it's only logical that he didn't.


Now, since you don't have any specific ANYTHING except your dummy
opinion which you can't stand to be wrong about,

can you spell "projection"?



you'll probably come back with some goofy "point mine" rejoinder,

"goofy".


translation: your "point mine" rejoinders scored in the sublime zone.

http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/a65843facf9e60e6


but you'll still be wrong.


well, sure. in the apples and oranges game, i'm always wrong.


-$Zero...

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