So while you might not have any idea why it’s still not working, I see it perfectly clear. That script you started in 2015? Yeah, you were much younger. Eschew a Hollywood friend base at your own risk. (That, and, yes, cocaine, true.) Friendship is the only way to keep working. In fact, we’re mostly not phonies, but it’s those few phonies that make us all look bad.įor all intents and purposes, friendship is the only thing that moves Hollywood it’s the only way to get a job. To you, they’re just fake humans new-age detritus backstabbing phonies who’ll steal your screenplay over lunch at the Four Seasons and give you a cheek-to-air goodbye kiss while swearing you’re The Next Big Thing™.īut, O brother, I assure you thou art wronglyish to think in such suchlies. Can they chop firewood? Can they grow crops? Do they have wide birthing hips, suitable for repopulating the planet? No. What possible use could these California dandies have in a post-apocalyptic world? Can they hunt? No. Shallow people, sniveling sycophants, networking at Hollywood parties, cocaine on every end table, yoga.
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You see the entire movie industry as a cesspool. Gentle reader, I give you my top 5 ways to be a failed screenwriter: Eschew the very idea of Hollywood To fail as a screenwriter takes far less effort than to succeed.Īnd in any case, failure is always a damn fascinating topic. No sir/madam, I’m here today to talk about a small handful of ways a screenwriter can utterly fail to make it.Ĭall me a negative nilly, or call me a realist, or call me cab, but after many years studying the screenwriter success paradigm in the film industry, the data is slowly adding up and pointing to one conclusion, Watson: Her advice remains evergreen today, only now there are also a myriad other ways for starlets and screenwriters like us to “get into Hollywood,” so speak - that is, to make it as a paid screenwriter.īut I’m not here today to talk about those multiple myriad ways a screenwriter can make it.
When asked what was the best way for an aspiring starlet to get into Hollywood, the legendary Bette Davis once famously replied “Take Fountain.”