{"id":1009,"date":"2010-03-21T20:04:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T07:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2010-03-21T20:04:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T07:04:18","slug":"point-click-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/point-click-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Point &#038; Click"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurm.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is spot-on:\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forum.yesbutnobutyes.com\/avatar_cam.jpg?resize=525%2C520\" title=\"Avatar v Pocahontas\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"525\" height=\"520\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems to be cool at the moment to bag <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/23\/welcome-to-josh-sullys-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Avatar<\/a> &#8211; something akin to the derision that accompanies <i>Titanic<\/i>, perhaps? &#8211; but I <b>enjoyed<\/b> it.  Not only was I familiar with the original scriptment from way back but it transported me to a different reality for a couple of hours.  That takes real story-telling and filmmaking, regardless of the tools and bells and whistles at the filmmakers&#8217; disposal.<\/p>\n<p>(Fedora-tip:  <a href=\"http:\/\/complicationsensue.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/where-avatar-script-came-from.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Epstein<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>Some other backlash:  on the BBC Writersroom blog, <b>Dominic Mitchell<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/writersroom\/2010\/03\/writers_10_rules_and_why_i_hat.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">lays into writers holding forth about writing<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2010\/feb\/20\/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian website<\/a>:\n<div style=\"margin-left: 25px;\">Get lucky.  Stay lucky. &#8211; Ian Rankin<\/p>\n<p>Stop reading fiction &#8211; it&#8217;s all lies anyway, and it doesn&#8217;t have anything to tell you that you don&#8217;t know already (assuming, that is, you&#8217;ve read a great deal of fiction in the past; if you haven&#8217;t you have no business whatsoever being a writer of fiction). &#8211; Will Self<\/p>\n<p>When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else. &#8211; Zadie Smith<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yeah, some of them are a bit pointy-headed and a lot of them prescriptive but everyone&#8217;s different &#8211; particularly writers &#8211; and writers <strike>should remember<\/strike> can always cherrypick advice at their leisure.<\/p>\n<p>(Fedora-tip:  <a href=\"http:\/\/writersguild.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/writer-on-writers-on-writing.html\" target=\"_blank\">WGGB Blog<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>Heartened by an October 2005 revised draft of <i>Terminator: Salvation<\/i>, I watched the finished film recently.\n<p>I should have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-editing-room.com\/terminator-salvation.html\" target=\"_blank\">taken the hint<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"scrippet\">\n<p class=\"action\">CHRISTIAN grabs a HELICOPTER, which results in a CRASH that somehow leaves him unscathed. A CRIPPLED TERMINATOR chases him, but it is killed by BULLETS. Plain old, regular BULLETS. The kind that couldn\u2019t kill TERMINATORS in the other movies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I rilly rilly enjoyed the <i>Star Trek<\/i> reboot recently so:  Go forth and prosper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurm. This is spot-on: It seems to be cool at the moment to bag Avatar &#8211; something akin to the derision that accompanies Titanic, perhaps? &#8211; but I enjoyed it. Not only was I familiar with the original scriptment from way back but it transported me to a different reality for a couple of hours. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/point-click-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Point &#038; Click&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,5,4],"tags":[89,139,140],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-point-click","category-scriptwriting","tag-avatar","tag-bbc-writersroom","tag-terminator-salvation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}