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New Thanks! ... quite more of a smoking gun than I had imagined could ever surface.
(A bit imprecisely) I've used transistorized- as a modifier denoting formulaic-
..thinking,
..commercial music-like sounds, (now intruding onto NPR as time-fillers) while they ready the next script [is that another meta?] but sans any 'meaning' or tune or any message at all.
ie Whenever some opus/contrivance prompts an early recognition of the sort, "something here is Canned. Like Spam." Y'know?

A monumental find: I believe this clear ref to the '05 book is one Cat forever out of That Bag. mi-Cthulhu! w.t.f.will they ever do next? Originate stuff !?

Natch I include most-all of the "Tracks" in pop-music employing the same few instruments/often transistorized (even brass now has a mic! clipped to the bell..) As. if. to make that instrument into: some sort of cyborg? perhaps to grab, e-massage and reinsert a passage, as in any cgi movie-thing.

I guess my instincts weren't far off-track years-back, on deciding to skip most of the $100M+ formerly-called-movies. Maybe all associations with that a l g o r i t h m idea shall next evoke twitching (except in I.T. natch: where you can't do much without one :-)

This plot evokes something of the mindset that created the CDO/MBSs of the recent Financial Massacres: there the perps actually believed they had *eliminated Risk! ... is that not the same motivation for trying to devolve the art of story-telling into a $$-risk-free new corporate scam, as well?

* Worse: that they could not make the tiny leap from conceiving such a goal, to realizing that "risk-free' in financial transactions is tantamount to illegal manipulation (though there can be no such legal remedy to merely shoddy storytelling, I wot.)

I Blame Vulture Capitalism as the Prime generator of all such thieving plots. That thesis even can explain the dis-U.S. du jour. No one wants to look in that can of worms though, at all.


Who was it, noting regular car-crash reports on our peculiar newsfotainment, quipped ~~ Once you know that a car Can crash, do you really want to know about each one?

{sigh} ... More and more of the corporate infotainment seems to greatly intensify the TMI, evident in every opus you bite on/then wonder why anyone bothered to tell 'That' story at all?!
New If you believe Mnemosyne, it was ever thus.
(She works for Disney, I think.)

Balloon-Juice:

Mnemosyne (tablet) says: November 7, 2015 at 12:52 pm

Dang. I missed an entire screenwriting thread, and it’s too much of a pain in the ass to go back ans respond to everything. Two points:

(A) Before “Save the Cat!” ruined Hollywood, Robert McKee ruined it, and before him, Syd Field ruined everything. In other words, there’s always some screenwriting guru who ruined everything.

(B) James Bond, a character created by a British writer, played by British actors, in movies made by British directors, is an example of American imperialism? Oooookay. Honestly, I would say that the fact that the very shittiest Bond movies take place in the US is a sign that the character is intrinsically British and can’t be easily fit into American archetypes. We may love Bond, but he’s no more American than Dr. Who is.


A is interesting, and not unexpected if one thinks about it. Still, mclaren's rant was pretty good.

B seems pretty self-evident to me. I didn't understand why several in that thread were talking about Bond being somehow about America.

Cheers,
Scott.
New Agreed there has always been that sense of 'the ersatz' in Tinseltown products
But am unaware of some schematic diagram whereby even the time-points for jelloware manipulation are calculated! (And I do recall Jos. Campbell's infatuation with the mythology of Star Wars ... and he seemed quite pleased (given the zeitgeist of the late '70s.) Surely he got an A+ in Myth psych.

Hardly shocking a revelation, of course: there's been no time for re-Illusionment since the horrors of the 8-year Shogunate followed so immediately by the tacit acceptance of Patriot Act mindset, Security pandering and the effects of fine battles--not 'lost', as re facing the absurdities of for-profit penal-, medico- matters etc.--those expected fights for truthiness never even opened with a salvo.

Nope, no re-Illusionment in these parts.. see any elsewhere?


Dreamt I was trying to look up a factoid re 'The Enlightenment' in a trusty historical encyclopedia. But when I went to the page in index, the whole chapter was missing.
New That last: What a nightmare!! :-)
     Why movie scripts are so predictable: Blame "Save the Cat!" - (Another Scott) - (6)
         I haven't seen Casino Royale - (malraux) - (1)
             I think the last one I saw was Goldfinger. - (Another Scott)
         Thanks! ... quite more of a smoking gun than I had imagined could ever surface. - (Ashton) - (3)
             If you believe Mnemosyne, it was ever thus. - (Another Scott) - (2)
                 Agreed there has always been that sense of 'the ersatz' in Tinseltown products - (Ashton) - (1)
                     That last: What a nightmare!! :-) -NT - (Another Scott)

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