XPost: rec.arts.sf.written
From: grschmidt@acm.org
On 24/04/2020 08:36, Your Name wrote:
> On 2020-04-23 16:36:24 +0000, Paul S Person said:
>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:15:15 +1200, Your Name
>> wrote:
>>> On 2020-04-22 05:26:23 +0000, Alan Baker said:
>>>> On 2020-04-13 12:15 p.m., David Johnston wrote:
>>>>> On 2020-04-12 1:35 a.m., Your Name wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Minority Report
>>>>>>> This was a good movie. Never read the story.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Never seen it, never read it, but it's Tom Cruise again, so the movie
>>>>>> will be complete garbage.
>>>>>
>>>>> It wasn't.
>>>>
>>>> I have to laugh at those who judge a movie by who happens to be the
>>>> star.
>>>>
>>>> What matters most in any movie...
>>>>
>>>> And it's not even close.
>>>>
>>>> ...is the writing.
>>>>
>>>> Write a good script, and you can make a good movie, and it doesn't
>>>> matter who the stars are.
>>>>
>>>> Write a bad script, and you will make a bad movie...
>>>>
>>>> ...and it won't matter who the stars are in it, either.
>>>
>>> You could write THE best movie script ever, but it can easily be
>>> completely ruined by choosing the wrong actor, director, producer, etc.
>>> For example, the next "James Bond" movie starring Pee Wee Herman (or
>>> Joe Pasquale is you want a British celebrity) would be insanely stupid.
>>
>> Oh, I don't know.
>>
>> The 1967 /Casino Royale/ worked pretty well.
>>
>> You would just have to make the film a comedy.
>
> And then it's no longer really "James Bond", but instead a parody
> version (like Rowan Atkinson's "Johnny English" franchise).
> You haven't seen the 1967 version of /Casino Royale/, have you?
Cheers,
Gary B-)
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