That breakdown at the end of why Everything Everywhere All at Once is so resonant... Our families are our universes, so when they go off the rails, it feels like the universe has too. Wow.
Brandon Sanderson says Your first chapter is building promises. Steve Kaplan says first act ask the questions. Both of these answers helped me so much.
Charming, entertaining, AND informative. What more could a reasonable viewer possibly ask for? Thanks for another great interview! Steve Kaplan is insightful and articulate in a very efficient manner that makes learning from him enjoyable and easy. I expect I could listen to him for half a day without once looking at a clock.
Informative? Not really. It's an interesting philosophical criticism on the rigid structure of storytelling..... and it's modern trend to just go off it as kind of a big middle finger to the system.... which is why practically every Hollywood feature film that comes out bar some exceptions are unwatchable. They are written by these millennials that have no skills and the brain of a 15 year old and Gen Z, which is round about graduating with no life experience to speak off and fully indoctrinated by the rot in the educational system, so you now get shitty movies. If I hear 1 freak'n buzzword of 'modern audience' or 'racism, sexism, transphobia' etc. etc. ..... yeah I'm already out! And in the vast majority that's even before the movie releases.
When writers create fictional worlds for our readers, it means making lies from our heads told beautifully and authentically to say the truth, our truths.
I’m not convinced that emphasizing the “lie” aspect in the title is the best summary of this particular content. My takeaway was more in line with an encouragement to writers to boldly pursue exotic and interesting avenues towards the telling of relatable truths within their stories. I don’t mean to be pedantic here, but I think there is an important distinction between “fabricating fiction” versus “fabricating lies”. In a nutshell it’s the difference between a Tolkien or a Tolstoy (both in the former camp) versus a Trump, for example.
I watched run hide fight by the daily wire last year and I fully support stuff like that. People will say its glorifying violence in high schools but really its portraying students with mental illness and how self defense is necessary. The one thing I will say about the 90s is it wasnt afraid to go ugly, and thats the DNA of run hide fight.
I have one of those scripts that stopped me from writing, in my tracks. I just wrote a one page monologue, and I just heard this. So, maybe it's time to move on. In between the acting. 😐
That breakdown at the end of why Everything Everywhere All at Once is so resonant... Our families are our universes, so when they go off the rails, it feels like the universe has too. Wow.
Brandon Sanderson says Your first chapter is building promises. Steve Kaplan says first act ask the questions. Both of these answers helped me so much.
I really appreciate this perspective…it just gave me some freedom for the script I’m working on 😊
Charming, entertaining, AND informative. What more could a reasonable viewer possibly ask for? Thanks for another great interview! Steve Kaplan is insightful and articulate in a very efficient manner that makes learning from him enjoyable and easy. I expect I could listen to him for half a day without once looking at a clock.
Informative? Not really. It's an interesting philosophical criticism on the rigid structure of storytelling..... and it's modern trend to just go off it as kind of a big middle finger to the system.... which is why practically every Hollywood feature film that comes out bar some exceptions are unwatchable. They are written by these millennials that have no skills and the brain of a 15 year old and Gen Z, which is round about graduating with no life experience to speak off and fully indoctrinated by the rot in the educational system, so you now get shitty movies. If I hear 1 freak'n buzzword of 'modern audience' or 'racism, sexism, transphobia' etc. etc. ..... yeah I'm already out! And in the vast majority that's even before the movie releases.
Instead of “lie” I hear “a fiction”. That unlocks this for me
When writers create fictional worlds for our readers, it means making lies from our heads told beautifully and authentically to say the truth, our truths.
Steve is damn genius. So happy to have stumbled upon his book however many years back. Its as eye-opening as Keith Johnstone's book but more readable.
What are your thoughts on writer's lying in order to tell the truth?
I’m not convinced that emphasizing the “lie” aspect in the title is the best summary of this particular content. My takeaway was more in line with an encouragement to writers to boldly pursue exotic and interesting avenues towards the telling of relatable truths within their stories. I don’t mean to be pedantic here, but I think there is an important distinction between “fabricating fiction” versus “fabricating lies”. In a nutshell it’s the difference between a Tolkien or a Tolstoy (both in the former camp) versus a Trump, for example.
I watched run hide fight by the daily wire last year and I fully support stuff like that. People will say its glorifying violence in high schools but really its portraying students with mental illness and how self defense is necessary. The one thing I will say about the 90s is it wasnt afraid to go ugly, and thats the DNA of run hide fight.
I lie 24/7 to get a laugh. Even to get myself to sleep at night. Storytellers lie, and thank goodness we do.
I have one of those scripts that stopped me from writing, in my tracks. I just wrote a one page monologue, and I just heard this. So, maybe it's time to move on. In between the acting. 😐
These Rock!
Writers lie about being writers
I thought he meant lie as in lie about what your idea is about like what Robert Kirkman did with walking dead XD.
what he did
Is this what the UFO authors do?