Originally Posted by sgtfbomb
Never blame the screenwriter, or at the very least, never solely blame the screenwriter. This is for many reasons, but the biggest one being that in contemporary, commercial films, such as this, the credited writer is far from the only writer on the film. Often with big budget studio films, there are many cooks in the kitchen. The producers and big wig execs can and often will force their input, and often script doctors (the ghost writers of the film industry) are brought in to either compartmentalize on-the-go, mid-production writing or to take over the duties of the credited writer(s) who might've moved on to the next thing. Heck, some of the big name actors might even bring in their own writers to personalize their role to meet their personality. Bruce Willis has been said to do this.
Also, as majestic of a role such as being a screenwriter might sound, it is not. Your creative input is often limited. Your intents, such as tone and delivery of dialogue, can easily be overlooked or purposefully ignored. You might write a role with having a smart, female lead in mind, but since you're not usually involved with casting decisions, that character might be cast to be ditzy, helpless, and almost useless, in the name of sex appeal and name value. What you do can easily be over-written, and will be.
Dialogue and sometimes entire scenes are often changed or even completely made up on set. Plus, even if you do happen to be one of those rare screenwriters who do manage to have a strong creative voice, you are still not the end all-be all of the production. Even then, say the director, producer, big wig studio execs followed your lousy script word for word, they are still to blame since they were the ones who gave it life.
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05-04-2014, 05:34 AM
just idiots i guess
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