Screenwriting

Did a 6 yr old come up with your user name ?

I know of teenage fanfiction writers who could have done better.

This was clearly a corporate 'movie by committee' situation.

The two biggest problems with that scenario are that corporate suits think themselves creative (but are not) and involve themselves in the process, and the creative individuals they hire are vicious narcissistic suck-ups that have more political talent than artistic talent.

Shit movies like these are the result.

They started with whiteboards to brainstorm ideas then after a few hours brought in their "kid consultants" to workshop the finer narrative elements.

Some excellent examples in the film of the genius of the kid's expertise at work:

- Kylo's Tie Fighter screams across the desert and nearly mows down Rey, but Rey smashes it with the Force and her light saber - Kid: "Neeeeerrrrrww..BAM! Take that Kylo!"

-Kid: "Why can't we have a droid with a cone-face, and like it moves around on only one wheel. That would be rad!"
Abrams: "Isn't it too much like BB8 - he moves and swivels on one ball?"
Kid: "Naw, it will be a cool character!"

- Kid: "Hey, I think it would be cool if suddenly a little guy pops his head up in the cockpit of a star fighter and says something funny."

- Kid: "It really needs a big snake or worm thing to eat the characters. More monsters!"

- Kid: "You guys need to make more rapid edits and shorter scenes. Long scenes are boring - the movie need more action, more lasers, explosions, etc. Characters talking puts me to sleep...it should be more like a video game when something is always happening and I don't get bored."


Heh heh ;)

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More like an AI was used to write and direct. It was Star Wars-esque mini-scenes plugged together with cold soullessness of a machine. A machine that thinks making sense or sticking to cannon are not standard due to data it has to work with. Not as terrible and disastrous as TLJ but worse in a 5th level of Hell way.