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Maybe, but what a serious screenwriter (or HN reader) would consider a good script is not necessarily what will be most likely to get Joe Q. Public, IQ 100, to
by ShardPhoenix 16y ago
Maybe, but what a serious screenwriter (or HN reader) would consider a good script is not necessarily what will be most likely to get Joe Q. Public, IQ 100, to pay for a ticket.
- derefr 16y ago"Will make money" is basically what I meant by merit, presuming that the goal of the trade of screenwriting is to produce artifacts (scripts) that serve as force-multipliers for the success of the movies that use them. If scripts are not being selected by their merit, then, it is either because the studios are irrational, or because the screenwriters are using a bad definition of merit, and that in reality it is not that there is a surplus of good content, but rather a surplus of crap no one would pay to see.