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<blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 8875723" data-attributes="member: 6684958"><p>The real problem is too many creators narrow a whole genre down to only a couple things.</p><p></p><p>When someone goes to write a movie about any topic, genre, setting or whatever you only get three basic choices:</p><p>1.Do real research and then use that real knowledge as a base to write your movie</p><p>2.Watch the other "popular" movies that fit, and use that as your base to write from.</p><p>3.Just 100% make things up from scratch. </p><p></p><p>Now, each has good and bad parts: none are the "perfect" way to make a "perfect" movie. Though doing research and making stuff up are both hard....and both can often still be hard for people that are already good at research and making things up. Both can be next to impossible for even "good" writers. And impossible for any others. A "good" writer can take real facts, real fiction, and stuff they make up to create unique content. Though it takes time and effort...and it's all too easy to let things slide. And the copying of other movies makes things easy. </p><p></p><p>Of course the not so good writer is already only doing "research" by watching the couple of popular movies and then just copying from them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bloodtide, post: 8875723, member: 6684958"] The real problem is too many creators narrow a whole genre down to only a couple things. When someone goes to write a movie about any topic, genre, setting or whatever you only get three basic choices: 1.Do real research and then use that real knowledge as a base to write your movie 2.Watch the other "popular" movies that fit, and use that as your base to write from. 3.Just 100% make things up from scratch. Now, each has good and bad parts: none are the "perfect" way to make a "perfect" movie. Though doing research and making stuff up are both hard....and both can often still be hard for people that are already good at research and making things up. Both can be next to impossible for even "good" writers. And impossible for any others. A "good" writer can take real facts, real fiction, and stuff they make up to create unique content. Though it takes time and effort...and it's all too easy to let things slide. And the copying of other movies makes things easy. Of course the not so good writer is already only doing "research" by watching the couple of popular movies and then just copying from them. [/QUOTE]
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