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Right Now… I Feel Like Giving Up

April 4, 2012 17 Comments

Life can be a struggle as we wrestle with how our lives should be & how they actually are.

It’s the dream versus truth conundrum.

The last thing I would wish to impart upon a reader of this blog is the notion that I am not also struggling with my own demons as I walk this lonely creative road with only a few faithful friends.

Lately I’ve been struggling.

I’ve been feeling old; like my time has come and gone. Sometimes I feel like I don’t have the strength to keep pushing on, to keep writing more, to keep on with acting, to keep on creating.

It’s a difficult road and there are times when every person feels like giving up.

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Seven Problems With The Hollywood Remakes

April 3, 2012 5 Comments

1. Feel free to argue but the number one problem with Hollywood remakes is that original is almost always better.

2. They are absolute creativity killers, they don’t foster new writing talent and they send a discouraging message to young artists.

3. They are almost always driven by the bottom line and not by the creative process.

4. It’s difficult to have a plot with a twist – the audience members always have a pretty good idea about what is going to happen next.

5. There is little risk, very little journey into the unknown, very little exploration into a new world or story… they are generally predictable and uncomfortably safe and dull.

6. The filmmakers nearly always end up copying the original because the original film is indelibly etched into their imagination.

7. It is an insult to foreign films (and other countries) when Hollywood Americanizes a story that was rich in another culture and language.

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You’re a Bigot! Go On Admit It.

March 31, 2012 0 Comments

No one is without prejudice, not you, not me, not anyone.

It’s strange that in the land of the free this prejudice runs rampant right through to the very core of the constitution. Total freedom for the individual implicitly allows for and legislates in favor of the individuals right to discriminate and to choose what is best solely for themselves.

I guess this is why black kids in hoodies get shot on their way home from the candy store.

We all have our prejudices, the value (less) judgments we make against the people groups or type of our choosing are obvious to anyone who chooses to travel with us in our motor vehicles.

The trouble with bigotry is not bigotry itself but rather the ignorance of it.

We have to own our bigotry; the sad, arrogant, ignorant part of each us that is quick to anger and too impatient to try and understand.