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Depends on to which generation he refers. If he means the 24 year-olds who graduate college with a "C" average and who get middling office jobs, and feel that the world owes them a living while they update their facebook page and text their friends during work hours, then I might agree.
I'm fairly certain none of them hang out here, though. Here we have students, and working people, who do what we love, as you said, for free. As well as some working writers.
I started at age 14 by sweeping up my uncle's knitting mill after school, and I haven't stopped working since. I get up at 5:30 every morning, including weekends so that I have time to write, and I'm never home before 7:00. Some weekends I go from early in the morning to 6:00 p.m.
I dare anyone to give me a challenge I can't handle.
I guess his post made me mad - thus my weighing in. Great response to him by you, though.
As to the rest of your post, pin-balling from Hitler to Ghostbusters to Bob Geldof in the space of two sentences, I am most impressed. In a way.
I'm impressed that it doesn't appear to make a damn bit of sense. Bob Geldolf played Pink, not the schoolmaster, and "I Don't Like Mondays" came out about three years before "The Wall".
Thanks for correcting me on the facts regarding The Wall. It has been over twenty years and I'm not a film historian Where have you got this idea that I want you to work free??? I have always produced the projects with at least 10X financial return and thanks to technology which allows low budget digital filmmaking and new distribution possibilities, all my projects calculations will show at least $2M-$3M return. And in film business there is such kind of thing, as above the line costs where usually writers will get paid and which was totally missing in my previous activities on music and software production. In those businesses you had to wait return for a years until you get your production to TOP10 (music) or go public (IPO) sell your creation to some bigger company. Look, I have generated lot of financing guys interest to my projects. But they always ask, so us your team then we can help you. Without a team you are just "one man band" for us.
I'm surprised what kind of attidude writers have taken in shootingpeople.org. They demand that producer should pay them at least minimum salary!!! Do writers really wan't to work in call center type of controlled environment? Better idea would be to declare one common price for each word writer writes. Then we can take apes to write shakespeare where we can show a money well spent
I have writers for my other two projects and as this project was a really simple to write, I assumed I will get a writer to this team easily. Instead, I have been bombed with stupid accusations here...
And I want to know despite the fact that some corrupted judge from courtroom number 10 in Belfast Magistrates Court can declare me “mentally ill”!
I think you should try and concentrate on making films in Estonia or wherever you're from and stop trying lambaste the people who reject your ideas. Not all ideas are good ideas. Some say yes, some say no. It's life, get on with it.
I read your blog and punk music in Northern Ireland did not make Richard Branson a millionaire. Where do you come up with this stuff?
Unfortunately not, but my ol' man is from Bangor. Spent a lot of time in NI, though.
Got to love dodgy Port Rush, spectacular Giant's, and the view of the Lough from Carnalea Golf Club (where the family all go) is among the finest I have ever seen.
You guys really are something. When you haven't met those people who made punk in NI on says, when brits made Beatles those persons won't not exists for you? You really belong to be the characters for this movie showing such kind of arrogance and stupidity. Why should I go to Estonia? I left it in 1998 to NYC with my business leaving a decent country behind, but when Georg W Bush started his war in 2002, I went back there. Total corruption was going on where honest and competente persons had no place anymore. And Estonians made their decision in 2004 to keep the corruption and bureocracy in their country; and give away their independece. I left, as nearly 50% of the population. This isn't a country anymore and I do not have any reason to go back there. But I have wondered how your judges in Northern Ireland can sleep at nights living in lies? And those in Ipsos Mori. You just can't destroy the professionalism and my life work there.
Low budget thrillers and smart horror is the way in. If done effectively, its an easy sell. This movie idea will never happen. If you have money, lets talk and get a simpler, smaller, but smart project going. Otherwise, you will never get something so convoluted off the ground.