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by Trevor Mayes | Mar 29, 2010 | Links, Motivation |
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. – Josh Billings The Year is 30,000 B.C. Otok and Glart have returned from a successful hunting trip (i.e. they didn’t catch anything, but both...
by Trevor Mayes | Mar 26, 2010 | Diversions |
Looks like Avatar 2 will be even more original than its predecessor!
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by Trevor Mayes | Mar 24, 2010 | Industry Advice, Interviews, Movie Reviews |
Dozens of acclaimed Hollywood screenwriters get the last word in the documentary, Tales from the Script, which is currently in limited release. Curiously the Netflix average rating for the movie is a measley 2.3 stars (out of 5), while the IMDB rating is a stellar 9.3...
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by Trevor Mayes | Mar 21, 2010 | Characters |
That Wily Shakespeare In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet makes the argument: What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. Bollocks to that! If the play had instead been called Brent and Hildred, or Addison and...
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by Trevor Mayes | Mar 18, 2010 | Industry Advice |
Da Vinci Code? A few years back I went on a Dan Brown binge and read all of his novels. It’s a bit of a blur, but I remember in one of his books, there was the concept of the “self-authorizing password.” The idea behind the self-authorizing password...
