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""The only people who are resistant are the writers""

Posted by Estee on 05-07-13 at 09:35 AM
Do you know how to determine the IQ of a focus group? Same way you determine the IQ of a mob: take the intelligence quotient of the dumbest person in it and divide it by the number of people in the group --

-- squared.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/business/media/solving-equation-of-a-hit-film-script-with-data.html

Hollywood studios are fearful. Hollywood studios run scared. And Hollywood studios will throw money at anything which will let their Greenlight Guy sleep for an hour -- until the day he inevitably gets fired anyway.

William Goldman's words still apply: no one knows anything. This is just the newest form of lying about it.

Up to twenty thousand per script examination. I have to find an emergency sink now.


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"RE: "The only people who are resistant are the writers""
Posted by kingfish on 05-07-13 at 10:32 AM
If they had used this, we might not have ever had:

The Big Leboski.

Bottle Rocket.

A league of their own.

A River runs thru it.

Dances with wolves.

Alien.

Mad Max movies.

Conan the Barbarian (OK, we might not have missed this one)

Maybe even not Star Wars or Close Encounters, although I have no idea how that system would rate westerns, period pieces, Space operas, Science Fiction, etc.

Fortunately, Indie films probably won't be able to afford this.


"*Conan Kick*"
Posted by foonermints on 05-07-13 at 04:14 PM
I bet that hurt!


Hey! Wouldn't this eliminate writers like me, that nobody cares about or understands anyway? OH.. nevermind.


"RE: *Conan Kick*"
Posted by kingfish on 05-07-13 at 04:38 PM
Tell Ahnald to eat a vienna sausage.

(And that is what we mean when we say "Dam good writing! Dam good. The kind that could very well get turned into a blockbuster movie."


"RE: *Conan Kick*"
Posted by foonermints on 05-07-13 at 08:19 PM
LAST EDITED ON 05-07-13 AT 08:29 PM (EST)

LAST EDITED ON 05-07-13 AT 08:23 PM (EST)

Jealous yet?

When you are Governor of California, maybe I'll respect you, Turkey.
eta: Dayyyuuuum! Mabe not!

"Your filthy overuse of Smileys will drag you to Hell one day!" ~ misquote by Grit


"RE: *Conan Kick*"
Posted by kingfish on 05-08-13 at 08:53 AM
<Kicking on the San Andreas Fault!>


"RE: *Conan Kick*"
Posted by foonermints on 05-08-13 at 11:40 AM
Go ahead. We just renewed our earthquake supplies!

Your foot looks dirty.


"RE: *Conan Kick*"
Posted by cahaya on 05-08-13 at 11:53 AM
Well, you know, kingfish just wants to kick half of California into the Pacific shelf and into his watery domain.

Sink or swim!


"RE: *Conan Kick*"
Posted by kingfish on 05-08-13 at 12:33 PM
I'ts part of my plan to rule the world, one earthquake at a time.


"RE: *Conan Kick*"
Posted by Estee on 05-08-13 at 12:40 PM
I see this script will be staring that non-protective non-hero, Dr. Dum.A.S.S.

"RE: *Conan Kick*"
Posted by kidflash212 on 05-08-13 at 12:48 PM
Didn't Lex Luthor try that already?

"RE: *Conan Kick*"
Posted by foonermints on 05-08-13 at 12:56 PM
LAST EDITED ON 05-08-13 AT 01:29 PM (EST)

Dang, didn't think it through.
We bought ten cases of water. Does water float?


Things probably aren't looking too good for the canned soup. I don't even want to think about the Macaroni. *shudder*
I got something for you, fishy!


"RE: "The only people who are resistant are the writers""
Posted by cahaya on 05-07-13 at 06:09 PM
Run a few algorithms, data mining the scripts of the past five years' blockbuster movies, and see what pops out. Top five: Sex, violence, explosions, gunfire, and foul language, with a street (or building or parking garage) full of dead bodies.

Bogie wouldn't stand a chance.


"RE: "The only people who are resistant are the writers""
Posted by kingfish on 05-07-13 at 06:42 PM
Hey, that's not so bad. That's right up our alley.

Glad there wasn't no traveling pants or hippy stuff.


"RE: "The only people who are resistant are the writers""
Posted by cahaya on 05-07-13 at 06:48 PM
LAST EDITED ON 05-07-13 AT 06:51 PM (EST)

That's right up our alley.

We've already been warned, as long as it's not up the bowling alley.

A ten-pin strike ain't nothing compared to a flotilla of US warships and carrier craft striking an alien invasion. Gutter ball!


"music and visual art"
Posted by cqvenus on 05-08-13 at 07:52 AM

music and visual art can also be quantified, predicted, and generated by algorithm.

i heard of a study on npr in which the scientist determined the ideal painting in a number of countries. it was always a landscape, always featured blue...

humans are predictable, just like any other animal.

however, what is missing is the sub-culture... the smaller groups that will, as mentioned above, take The Big Lebowski and bring it to a whole new level.

cq

although Lebowski did sort of involve a heist