“It ain’t about how hard you can hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” Rocky Balboa Today we’re going from The Rock to Rocky and it happened very organically. Yesterday’s post, Hitting Rock Bottom with The Rock, touched on Dwayne Johnson’s hard times after he left the University of […]
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Archive for November, 2015
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Hitting Rock Bottom with The RockPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The first rock bottom I hit was out of college where I worked for ten years from the time I started playing football at 14 years old to the time I was 23 and did not get drafted. Played in the CFL for approximately 200 bucks a week Canadian. I got cut from the team […]
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‘Concussion’—Pulling No PunchesPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“If you’ve been involved in professional football or even football at any level, you can’t not be interested in this movie.” Concussion writer/director Peter Landsesman Comingsoon.net interview “I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL. When I was writing and shooting the movie, the NFL wasn’t a single consideration, in […]
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2015
‘Concussion”—Pulling No PunchesPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“If you’ve been involved in professional football or even football at any level, you can’t not be interested in this movie.” Concussion writer/director Peter Landsesman Comingsoon.net interview “I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL. When I was writing and shooting the movie, the NFL wasn’t a single consideration, in […]
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2015
Pro Feature Screenwriter vs. Pro Football PlayerPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaBy far the most read post on this blog is How Much Do Screenwriters Make? In fact, I just Googled that phrase and out of the 1,070,000 results, my 2009 post was on the first page. In that post I contrasted working screenwriters and NFL football players and made this observation: “While reading over the WGAw report I […]
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Writers, Money and Small PotatoesPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“When people mouth of about how Hollywood has changed I remind myself of a correspondence I once perused between the great Bertolt Brecht and the legendary agent Spud Weed, who departed the hills and valleys before I came to town. “Neither Brecht nor Spud Weeb bothered with long philosophical exchanges. The letters between them—notes, really—were […]
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‘Broken But Beautiful’ Advice for ScreenwritersPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Follow your curiosity. Stories are sometimes found in the most unlikely places.” Producer Laura MacDonald (Gladiator) (That’s the drum that I’ve been beating on this blog since 2008.) Yesterday the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences dropped the above video giving advice to screenwriters. Here are a few of my favorite thoughts from that […] When it’s a warm and sunny November day in Orlando it’s the perfect time to put the top down and take your car for a boat ride. I took this photo yesterday at Downtown Disney where tourist pay $125 for a unique 30 min trip. While I’d seen pictures and videos of the Amphicar before […] |
