I LOVE bad horror movies :) My wife and I sometimes stay up at night watching the "chilr" channel. The movies (and often the acting) are so bad we get a kick out of them. We usually wind up doing a home version of MST3K while watching them :)
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Nick Andrews <[email protected]>wrote: > And then, about a million levels below bad there are movies like The > Grudge, Paranormal Activity and Grave Encounters... > > Nick A > On Jul 28, 2012 12:07 PM, "Raymond Feist" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Jul 28, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Paddyjack <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Ray, >> > >> > A weird idea struck me this morning and I thought you may have some >> > ideas about this. Let's say John has this great idea for a book but >> > can't even write an Happy Birthday card correctly.... can he sell the >> > idea to a publisher, or even directly to a writer so that it would be >> > written by someone else who knows how to do it? It seems to happen for >> > movies sometimes, and I was wondering if it happens also with books? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > PJ >> > >> >> >> >> You're jamming a lot of stuff into one basket. >> >> First, ideas can't be copyrighted. Only the unique expression thereof, >> so whatever John might dream up, he'd have to be pretty convinced it was >> something special. >> >> OK, so let's say it's a really nifty concept. He could try to find a >> co-writer, but the fact is, without front money he's not going to find too >> many pros willing to listen. We need ideas like we need our taxes raised. >> There are books I want to write I'll never get to, because they'll always >> be the third or fourth choice of what to do next. If he found a writer, at >> that point it would be as if he wrote it himself, i.e. finding a publisher >> and all the rest of that. >> >> As for movies, you're probably seeing "Story by" followed by "Screenplay >> by" someone different. That's a different thing. In screenwriting there's >> a stage called the "story pitch." So let's say I have a pitch meeting for >> my movie idea, "Really Nifty Stuff," and they like the idea, but don't like >> my first draft screenplay. They might buy the idea and hire another writer >> to do it. So, in short, John would have to be able at least to write a >> pitch and have a story bible (as it's known in the biz). >> >> Really there are no "good" ideas or "bad" ideas in stories. Only good >> and bad executions of storytelling. >> >> Best, R.E.F. >> ---- >> www.crydee.com >> >> Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by >> stupidity. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- Sent from my Crappy Laptop (tm) using a poor excuse for a web browser.
