Spelling Bees - What's Up With That?
Apr. 28th, 2006 12:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xtineebeeK, having lived in LA and, therefore, being inundated with DA BIZ and how it works, I get a few things. One guy writes a treatment, shops it around town. One studio buys it, the others copy it in their own versions. This is why we get 3 asteriod movies in one year etc.
So what is u with the sudden fascination with spelling bees? We had a Richard Gere film last year, another coming out soon...and good lord, ad commercials now centered around these adventures. There is one for shredded wheat alone that keeps playing ad nauseum.
Perhaps I am a little hostile on the subject as I was, am, and always will be a quesitonable speller. (Wonders if she spelt 'questionable' correctly....). Everyone in town doing an action movie about spacemen/CIA agents/drug lords I can get - but spelling bees? Maybe it has to do with the new industry fascination with children, as they are,like, omg so IN again! Whee!
It is even more amusing/odd to ponder this trend in light of the events in the world of books this week, where a plagerist (upon having been caught) is using a defense along the lines of 'I read those books so much I must have just channeled copying them becuase I *admired that writing so much*'. At my college we would have been expelled for such behaviour, frankly. I often wonder why there are not more lawsuits among movie studios over these 'shared treatments'. I refuse to believe that we are all collectively at the end of our creative ropes. True, one of the first lessons my English Prof taught in college was that there are only 7 plots in the whole world - but all of literature is the endless riffs we can all play over the plots. That said, no way am I missing the remake of "The Omen" because - dude - *David Thewlis*. ( I will save for another day the long pondering on how this terrificly talented man seems to make a career out of being the one person with talent in so many really bad films. Moreau, anyone?)
In summary: spelling bees are so "ABC Afterschool Special" it is not funny, so please celebrate youthful triumph with something more engaging and not so "didn't I just see this movie?".
So what is u with the sudden fascination with spelling bees? We had a Richard Gere film last year, another coming out soon...and good lord, ad commercials now centered around these adventures. There is one for shredded wheat alone that keeps playing ad nauseum.
Perhaps I am a little hostile on the subject as I was, am, and always will be a quesitonable speller. (Wonders if she spelt 'questionable' correctly....). Everyone in town doing an action movie about spacemen/CIA agents/drug lords I can get - but spelling bees? Maybe it has to do with the new industry fascination with children, as they are,like, omg so IN again! Whee!
It is even more amusing/odd to ponder this trend in light of the events in the world of books this week, where a plagerist (upon having been caught) is using a defense along the lines of 'I read those books so much I must have just channeled copying them becuase I *admired that writing so much*'. At my college we would have been expelled for such behaviour, frankly. I often wonder why there are not more lawsuits among movie studios over these 'shared treatments'. I refuse to believe that we are all collectively at the end of our creative ropes. True, one of the first lessons my English Prof taught in college was that there are only 7 plots in the whole world - but all of literature is the endless riffs we can all play over the plots. That said, no way am I missing the remake of "The Omen" because - dude - *David Thewlis*. ( I will save for another day the long pondering on how this terrificly talented man seems to make a career out of being the one person with talent in so many really bad films. Moreau, anyone?)
In summary: spelling bees are so "ABC Afterschool Special" it is not funny, so please celebrate youthful triumph with something more engaging and not so "didn't I just see this movie?".
You just ruined my social life
Date: 2006-04-30 03:22 am (UTC)I swear, the last year has been the worst for going to the movies. Hardly anything worth seeing at all, sigh.