How about a story about real people who behave like real people?
I keep telling people, “Pocahontas with blue people”.
It should be “Pocahontas with blue people, anti-war propaganda and relativism”.I keep telling people, “Pocahontas with blue people”.
You know…I wrote one with real people…real situations…and guess what Hollyweird said? “Thank you…but we are just not looking for this type of material at this time…” lolHow about a story about real people who behave like real people?
You see actors in Hollywood movies, and they all act like actors in Hollywood movies.
I wrote a story in which the main character is real.
She speaks to the British House of Commons, but she is really talking to reporters whom she will never meet.
“I will not answer your reporter’s questions. Nobody elected you. I’ll talk with elected heads of state when necessary for the public good.”
I prefer Dances with Smurfs.I keep telling people, “Pocahontas with blue people”.
You know what I want to see… A proper adaptation of Michael Ende’s classic children’s book “The Neverending Story”. The original film only adapted the first half of the novel(due to budget restraints at the time), and I would love to see it get a simular modern treatment to “The Chronicles of Narnia” the film adaptations of which I have loved so far.You know…I wrote one with real people…real situations…and guess what Hollyweird said? “Thank you…but we are just not looking for this type of material at this time…” lol
i will keep trying though.
I never read The Neverending story…I did see the movie though. And the Chronicals of Narnia was great, i loved it too.
I get exactly the same line in the book publishing business.
Yeah…i dont know anyone in the industry. That is a problem.
Well of course the situations must be interesting, but what I meant was the reactions of real people to these situations.You know…I wrote one with real people…real situations…and guess what Hollyweird said? “Thank you…but we are just not looking for this type of material at this time…” lol
i will keep trying though.
Can you imagine Sandra Bullock or Julia Roberts reacting like that? Not good for their career personae, you know. Bullock would probably make some witticism and Roberts would not react at all but jump to the next part of the scene. But the way I wrote it is exactly how at least some real 19 year old girls would react.
Oh, i see…yes, you are right. That does happen a lot in movies. LOL.
Bullock could do that scene… Have you seen “The Blind Side”? Although it’s likely she would delibratly underact the scene and not cry too much. However one of the only actresses I could in fact see doing that scene as it was written(both age wise and emotion wise) is Keira Knightly, or Natalie Portman.
Knightly, b. 1985, and Portman, b. 1981, don’t have the look I envisage for Theresa, and they’re too old.
) but she snaps out of it.Portman actually played a 16-18 year old in Black Swan despite being almost 30 at the time it was filmed(same went for co-star Mila Kunis). She still looks, and can act, very young. Which is why I thought of her. But yes you are right, she’s probably too old and it was probably very difficult to prepare her to play that role in Black Swan(hence the Oscar recognition), as they obviously had to take measures to “wind back” her visual age, including having her wear “tape” or a hidden restrictive upper body suit.Knightly, b. 1985, and Portman, b. 1981, don’t have the look I envisage for Theresa, and they’re too old.
Ellen Page, b. 1987, has the perfect llittle girl next door look, but she’s no longer a teenager. Maybe Ellen has a younger sister?
It would not take a great acting talent to play Theresa. The role is of somebody with ordinary emotions, not “exaggerated, mugging” emotions like a stage actor. .
The situations provide more than enough cannon fodder to elicit emotional responses without overdoing it.
Theresa is a very smart girl and this tempers her reactions somewhat. Nevertherless, the situations are sometimes overwhelming and she reverts to a little girl for brief periods. But she soon recovers.
One of the themes of the story is youth trying to understand the world. Theresa says this herself on page one: “My job as a kid was to figure out what the heck was going on and what to do about it. It’s not easy when you’re young and everything is brand new.”
When situations become overwhelming, Theresa temporarily acts like a ten year old girl, ( for the security: you have no responsibilities at age ten
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I know what you mean. Most of the “kids” in GLEE look like they’re old enough to be picking up their own kids from high school in a minivan out in the school parking lot..
She might fool us old guys, but would she fool teenagers?
Condider Jennifer Lawrence in the Hunger Games. She played a sixteen year old, but she was actually 21. She didn’t fool me. That was no sixteen year old.
I deal with hundreds of people every day including teenagers. You can usually tell when they’re minors.
Perhaps the only way for an actor to play a teenager is to actually be a teenager
and not act at all.
Well as I said, the main reason hollywood employs this casting method is because Minors usually can’t(both legally and emotionally) work the hours required to get the film done within that certain production time period and a decision has to be made that will keep the producers happy the film won’t have any legal issues or delays without undermining the resulting story. I remember when the first Harry Potter was made, the producers had to “work wonders” in order to satisfy various unions and government bodies that the kids would not be overworked, including from what I recall submitting to limited hours of filming per day(for every kid, not just the main cast members). I recall them saying in the behind the scenes, that legally the kids could only work a maximum of 4 overall hours per day sometime from 9AM to 3PM(but someone might correct me) including make-up. This would have probably slowly become more relaxed as the kids aged through the 8 films(I only know about the first film). In fact I also think this is one reason why it took till the third film before any major on-location filming took place. If you’ve ever wondered why the first two films seem so heavily studio based, the work restrictions were probably the cause of it..
She might fool us old guys, but would she fool teenagers?
Condider Jennifer Lawrence in the Hunger Games. She played a sixteen year old, but she was actually 21. She didn’t fool me. That was no sixteen year old.
I deal with hundreds of people every day including teenagers. You can usually tell when they’re minors.
Perhaps the only way for an actor to play a teenager is to actually be a teenager
and not act at all.
I know this, but they really rarely do it(on major Hollywood productions), because it entails a radically diffrent approach to the standard production procedure and when you are working with a schedule(say, a date on which the film must be ready to hit cinemas), it can be difficult for producers to work around the extra restrictions(including of the budgetary kind) which are placed on them by having young lead actors. Hence Natalie Portman is signed to play a 16-18 year old, despite being almost 30. Or of cause the classic example of a 16 year old Judy Garland playing a character who was originally 12 years old.
I’ve wanted to see a World War 2 movie from the German perspective that shows the life of an average German soldier. Yea I am a WW2 buff
. There is really an endless list of books and ideas that could be made into films. I think Hollywood is trying to be safe and sticking to names people can recognize. Original films are too risky. That’s not always the case though. There may be a lot of crumby movies made but there are still some good ones.