It’s not the first time I come to think of it, but life is not a movie. We have our hopes it is sometimes, but we all know that even if a story has a happy ending, the rest of the life will not be happy because of it.
Don’t we all have Cinderella-hopes?
I hope that one day the right person will read my script and WHAM it's movie.
Callie Khouri had her first script sold and became the owner of an Oscar. Wow, that’s Cinderella.
But she worked as a music video production assistant. She knew people at the right places. Like Cinderella would have known his father’s cousin’s friend who was the King’s adviser.
I’m sure she had to work hard anyway, but it puts me further away from my Cinderella-ending.
And once I had my “WHAM it’s a movie”-moment I have to swim even harder not to sink and join all the others who only succeeded one time.
I can swim, so I don’t worry much about that. At least not now.
But tell me honestly, don’t you read this blog because you one day want to see the movie and know that you had followed the process of the script’s birth?
I can tell you for sure that even if it is childish I hope this blog will bring me closer to my Cinderella-dream.
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Filmography links and data courtesy of
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4 comments:
Write a small movie and direct it yourself, then post it on this blog in chapters.
Be your own Fairy Godmother.
A very interesting idea.
What strikes me at once is my lack of equipment and options to hire actors (money).
But! I know how to do an animations, both on computers and by hand.
And there is always an option to do something that does not demand actors.
Hey, problems are there to be solved, aren't they.
If my brain says it cannot be done, then I love to prove it wrong.
Every day it gets harder to get someone to look at a script.
Find a director with a camera.
Find one very good actor.
Write a sharp small script with locations you have free.
Two or three actors.
A script is a blueprint for a movie. Imagine trying to sell blueprints when no house was ever built from those blueprints.
The director with a camera is a problem.
A few years ago I was in contact with a headmaster for the director-classes and asked if any of her students where in need of a short script.
There where a short silence in the other end of the phone before she said: "I'll ask them, but you know, they write their own scripts."
I got a brief contact. He liked my script (called "Freezing cold") told me what he wanted to do with it - which was basically turning blue to red - and soon after called me again telling me that there was no money to get it made, when he liked is own script better.
But I had a habit to give up then which I hope I have stopped with by now.
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