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Trawled round Blockbuster last night whilst waiting for my pizza, and noticed shelf after shelf of UK gangster films.
How original. How very original.
Starring some soap actor and comedian, another “gritty drama” made by someone that has never come any closer to criminals than watching The Bill twice.
But they continue to get made and clog the video shelves.
Utter, utter crap.
There is no British film industry. You can only get a film made if it’s a comedy with Hugh Grant or another wearisome gangster flick.
I spent 2 years trying to get funding for a script I wrote. Meetings with producers all over the place, and constantly head the same thing over and over “It needs more action. Perhaps a Vinnie Jones type character? Need guns”
Why?
Why do I need more guns? Why do I need to copy the last hit Brit movie?
Most suck…no, scrap that, they ALL suck.
Guy Ritchie…Guy Ritchie! Lock, Stock! Snatch! Those are good!
No, those are generic rip-offs from every Scorcese movie he’s ever watched, and with large chunks of dialogue lifted from Get Carter and The Long Good Friday.
So I touted my script round and round, applied for lottery funding, went to Arts Councils and had doors close in my face because “it needs guns or something”.
Rubbish.
Unimaginative, bland, same-old same-old tosh about criminals with heists that go wrong, criminals doing one last job before they can quit and blah blah blah.
So I sent out a mailshot to about 200 American Agents, giving a pitch for my script and left it.
Months went by, until I received one saying “I’d love to read your script, it sounds interesting”.
So, it takes an American to take notice of an English script that isn’t about guns and mockney gangsters.
This country is only interested in a film industry that can replicate last summers “surprise hit”, but only if it’s written by Guy Ritchie (who has married an American and makes movies with American stars now he can afford them) or has Hugh Grant in.
Tax relief is only offered to non-UK productions, to entice them over here. That isn’t right.
Why reward foreign movies, whilst strangulating our own home-grown industry?
So much talent is moving away from this country, because it’s not encouraged or nurtured. And I don’t blame them one little bit – why smash your face against a brick-wall, only to watch another crime flick get made and disappear?
But let’s not worry about that, Tomb Raider is out soon.
Creativity is too much hard work, let’s be spoon-fed something big and loud and go home happy eh?
No thanks.
How original. How very original.
Starring some soap actor and comedian, another “gritty drama” made by someone that has never come any closer to criminals than watching The Bill twice.
But they continue to get made and clog the video shelves.
Utter, utter crap.
There is no British film industry. You can only get a film made if it’s a comedy with Hugh Grant or another wearisome gangster flick.
I spent 2 years trying to get funding for a script I wrote. Meetings with producers all over the place, and constantly head the same thing over and over “It needs more action. Perhaps a Vinnie Jones type character? Need guns”
Why?
Why do I need more guns? Why do I need to copy the last hit Brit movie?
Most suck…no, scrap that, they ALL suck.
Guy Ritchie…Guy Ritchie! Lock, Stock! Snatch! Those are good!
No, those are generic rip-offs from every Scorcese movie he’s ever watched, and with large chunks of dialogue lifted from Get Carter and The Long Good Friday.
So I touted my script round and round, applied for lottery funding, went to Arts Councils and had doors close in my face because “it needs guns or something”.
Rubbish.
Unimaginative, bland, same-old same-old tosh about criminals with heists that go wrong, criminals doing one last job before they can quit and blah blah blah.
So I sent out a mailshot to about 200 American Agents, giving a pitch for my script and left it.
Months went by, until I received one saying “I’d love to read your script, it sounds interesting”.
So, it takes an American to take notice of an English script that isn’t about guns and mockney gangsters.
This country is only interested in a film industry that can replicate last summers “surprise hit”, but only if it’s written by Guy Ritchie (who has married an American and makes movies with American stars now he can afford them) or has Hugh Grant in.
Tax relief is only offered to non-UK productions, to entice them over here. That isn’t right.
Why reward foreign movies, whilst strangulating our own home-grown industry?
So much talent is moving away from this country, because it’s not encouraged or nurtured. And I don’t blame them one little bit – why smash your face against a brick-wall, only to watch another crime flick get made and disappear?
But let’s not worry about that, Tomb Raider is out soon.
Creativity is too much hard work, let’s be spoon-fed something big and loud and go home happy eh?
No thanks.
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Goatboy wrote:
> Good luck man.
I'm only in the preliminary stages of discussing
> rewrites and budgets.
It's hard work.
I've had ideas in the past, that sound really good in my head, but I just don't have the time to develop them.
One of the more obscure was a musical about a man that thought musicals were pointless, until he died and went to hell.
Oh well, there just aren't enough hours in the day.
> Good luck man.
I'm only in the preliminary stages of discussing
> rewrites and budgets.
It's hard work.
I've had ideas in the past, that sound really good in my head, but I just don't have the time to develop them.
One of the more obscure was a musical about a man that thought musicals were pointless, until he died and went to hell.
Oh well, there just aren't enough hours in the day.
I watched worse films than that.
*Ears p***k up*
No.
It was too much of a mess, the dialogue was terrible, so I scrapped it.
It was going to be called 'Small Wonder' by the way!
Or 'Short Comings' if the story took on a more adult theme....
It was too much of a mess, the dialogue was terrible, so I scrapped it.
It was going to be called 'Small Wonder' by the way!
Or 'Short Comings' if the story took on a more adult theme....
Good luck man.
I'm only in the preliminary stages of discussing rewrites and budgets.
It's hard work.
I'm only in the preliminary stages of discussing rewrites and budgets.
It's hard work.
Have you tried to get it made?
No, just men with cruel hearts.
Did it have a dog with cruel looking eyes?
I wrote a movie script once.
It was about a dwarf/midget (whatever you want to call him) that travelled the world with his banjo, teaching people that plutonic love can exist between all men.
It was about a dwarf/midget (whatever you want to call him) that travelled the world with his banjo, teaching people that plutonic love can exist between all men.
Your arrogance is only matched by your stunning lack of understanding on anything to do with movies.
But hey, it's funny as hell so carry on son.
But hey, it's funny as hell so carry on son.
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