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>1. Stealing Scripts" - This is just not a film business problem. People steal ideas everywhere, all the time. Stealing ideas is easy, creating a good product i
by technoslut 15y ago
>1. Stealing Scripts" - This is just not a film business problem. People steal ideas everywhere, all the time. Stealing ideas is easy, creating a good product is hard.
It sounds as if you're trying to justify this approach as well as the others listed. We all know this but the reason it happens is because the writer needs a studio to finance the film. This the most reprehensible of all those listed because it punishes creativity.
- kitcar 15y agoNot trying to justify anything, but rather suggesting pretty much all the issues outlined are issues in every major industry, and hence highlighting them as being specific and unusual to the film business is incorrect and unhelpful. An idea for a movie is a very different thing from a finished script, similar to an idea for a new business is very different than the execution of the new business. If we applied the "you owe me money because I had the movie idea first" logic to the tech world, facebook owes friendster money because they stole friendster's idea.
- technoslut 15y agoI can't speak for every situation and whether there was a finished script. I may be an idealist but, from a standpoint of morality, any business that abuses the power they have is severely lacking. There are differences between Facebook and Friendster and I've always felt uncomfortable with the way Zuckerberg behaved in the early days of Facebook. I will argue that Zuckerberg's vision was greater that than just the Winklevoss' original idea.