LittleMetalHorse

how do you cope with the indifference of the general public?

With such titanic budgets and armies of talent, how does the mainstream of cinema so singularly fail to deploy a story worth the name?

They aren't idiots, and i appreciate that they are in the money making business, not the art business, but surely there's a market beyond the hero's journey and a few explosions.

What am I missing?

Just another parent (single parent, three girls) checking in. You have a 4 week old...

It's hard and exhausting and it doesn't stop until they sleep through, around 2 years old.

Reprogram yourself. You're doing fine, and absolutely nothing else matters.

What worked for me was visualising my 60th birthday party, and 'remembering' all this from that perspective, trying to figure out if any of it really mattered. Vanishingly little of it did...

Be kind to yourself. It's hard, and that's ok. You can let a few things slide for a bit.

I love you.

That's really insightful, thankyou. I've met a few screenwriters who generally opine that in order to get a script heard it has to be summarised/infantilised as, say, Jaws meets buffy, and that's it. The idea that, on the one hand, a movie like Up can be made, and at the same time 200m can be spent on the matrix sequels without so much as three plot points written on the same cocktail menu and waved at the sound guy.

I think movies as product (indeed all pulp entertainment) is as old as the travelling players, I just wish there were alternatives gaining traction. Any writers, directors or movies you might put in the frame?

When I listen to radio 3 and they play movie soundtracks it's immediately apparent that I am not listening to "regular" classical or orchestral music. What are the cues I'm missing/subconsciously picking up that differentiate the genres?