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pidunk 11:33 pm UTC 08/20/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Captain Hook in Bat ? - GTKarber 08:17 am UTC 08/18/07 |
> Oh, that's just Susan. You'll get to know her in time. > > Also, I've always contended that one year (Dark City, > 1998; The Matrix, 1999) was not really enough turnaround > time to steal the ideas of a movie. > > More likely they just had them concurrently. Same as Ants > and A Bug's Life (and to a lesser extent, Monster's Inc. > and Shrek), Madagascar and The Wild, Armageddon and Deep > Impact, Volcano and Dante's Peak, The Arrival and > Independence Day, etc., etc., etc. I've done studies in and around the Motion Picture Industry. Living in Los Angeles has had its educational advantages. One of the reasons why I wanted to move here was to be closer to the medium of film which was fascinating to me, and rather than mix in conversation with the fans who knew nothing of what they spoke, I wanted to find conversation with the film-makers who did know of what they spoke. I immediately met people who knew directors, would-be producers, and screenplay writers, who were bringing me to studio lot previews of films before their releases, and in this way, for a brief period of immaturity, found mecca. Between 1982 and 1989 I had varied experiences with various levels of exposures, and in 1993/1994 took a series of classroom courses at American Film Institute, a professional Deal-Making seminar for Producers, followed by a course taught by an established professional at UCLA's Extension, "Production For Film and Television", which was a highly professional level course. I paid for these courses, which dealt with story structure, dramatic elements, and building of screenplays. As far as where ideas come from, and how ideas are either evolved, originated, or "borrowed", I got some insight into where the possibilities range. Somewhere in these experiences, I did happenstancely also manage to get myself on national (US) television in a skit that Alan Thicke was having for his short-lived talk show "Thicke Of The Night". But I digress. A film idea could be circulating for years before a picture is made of it, and a few people might go into competition with each other to come up with their version of a film that someone else has in production. The trade publications as well as professionals in the business at various times and ways circulate story synopses, and so everyone knows who is making what, with whom, with what financial backing, under what direction, production, and studio or if it is an indie, then with or without the distribution deal sewn up. So, there is alot of time for anyone to take ideas from one and put it into another. In the film industry, "Everyone" is a small group of people. | |
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