08 June 2023

The Writers Guild of America Strike - No One Cares Edition

OK, it isn't so much that no one cares, it's just that if one group of people who destroyed your childhood memories goes to war with the other group of people who helped them destroy those memories the best thing that can happen is if they both die.

Sadly I don't really think the WGA will die, and I also don't think that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will die. The world would be a better place without either of them.

Writers' rooms. AI. Minimum payments even if shows get canceled. (Shouldn't bad writing pay a price?) Minimum number or writers on any given show. How many shows or movies written by a committee more than 3 have been good? Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens wrote the three screenplays. I think you would find similar numbers of people involved with J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Large committees of "writers" (who are really more activists than writers) gave us She Hulk, The Rings of Prime, and destroyed the Star Trek, Star Wars, the Indiana Jones franchises, and more. But as Tolkien said, it much easier to destroy than to create.

Anyway, Gary "Nerdrotic" Buechler has all the info, including how the "access" media is shilling for the WGA. Which side is Gary on? He thinks they're both wrong.

This is the Nerdrotic video Woke Hollywood on STRIKE During its Apocalypse. Apocalypse? Well, why go on strike, when the companies don't have the money to pay you anyway, and were planning to cut production, abandon stories, remove series from stream (so you wouldn't get paid), etc? Apparently because writers don't understand business. ("It's not Show-Friends; it's show-business.")

The quote that shows up at the end is from the last thing Orson Welles produced, F Is for Fake. (Here is the 2 and a half minute section of that film.)

Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing."

Here is the 2 and a half minute section of that film.

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