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<blockquote data-quote="Resha Caner" data-source="post: 71094870" data-attributes="member: 269139"><p>I agree Spielberg is good. I wouldn't turn down the opportunity to work on one of his films. Should I ever be more than a flunky, however, I wonder what people I would want in order to get my vision across. I'm pretty sure I would make a horrible director, so I wouldn't try to take that on.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Uh oh. Hopefully this doesn't become a distraction, but now I can't resist commenting.</p><p></p><p>In addition to admiring Spielberg, I admire Liam Neeson and Ben Kinsley as actors. I also admire what Schindler did in real life. But I didn't like the movie. Spielberg seemed to have a disturbing preoccupation with shooting people in the head. It became a distraction. At one point I was thinking, "Oh, please, not again," and I started to get bored. I couldn't finish watching it. Then, the whole thing with the red coat in a B&W film just seemed pretentious and ill-suited to the structure of the rest of the film.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I usually write speculative stories. I like character-driven stories rather than plot-driven, and I like to explore subtle situations in which the MC is pressured by society to concede personal mores. I want the reader to start off thinking, "What's the big deal? Why does this matter to him?" The story then explores the consequences, and hopefully the reader will eventually say, "Ah! I get it!"</p><p></p><p>So, I've worked hard to develop story settings and structures that embody a Christian worldview - specifically a Lutheran worldview. It's actually very difficult. For example, I prefer Tolkien to Lewis. In <em>Lord of the Rings</em> people wrinkle their brow and ask, "This was written by a Christian?" In <em>Narnia </em>they say, "Well, that was blatant." Again, I prefer Tolkien. The danger with that subtle approach is directors like Peter Jackson. In the first film (<em>Fellowship of the Ring)</em> I could still see Tolkien's vision and message. By the 3rd <em>Hobbit</em> film it had been completely obliterated. I had trouble watching that one to the end as well.</p><p></p><p>That's a high-level summary. I don't know if you were interested in a more in-depth discussion of the themes I write about or if you wanted a synopsis of an actual plot from a specific story.</p><p></p><p>What do you like to write?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Resha Caner, post: 71094870, member: 269139"] I agree Spielberg is good. I wouldn't turn down the opportunity to work on one of his films. Should I ever be more than a flunky, however, I wonder what people I would want in order to get my vision across. I'm pretty sure I would make a horrible director, so I wouldn't try to take that on. Uh oh. Hopefully this doesn't become a distraction, but now I can't resist commenting. In addition to admiring Spielberg, I admire Liam Neeson and Ben Kinsley as actors. I also admire what Schindler did in real life. But I didn't like the movie. Spielberg seemed to have a disturbing preoccupation with shooting people in the head. It became a distraction. At one point I was thinking, "Oh, please, not again," and I started to get bored. I couldn't finish watching it. Then, the whole thing with the red coat in a B&W film just seemed pretentious and ill-suited to the structure of the rest of the film. I usually write speculative stories. I like character-driven stories rather than plot-driven, and I like to explore subtle situations in which the MC is pressured by society to concede personal mores. I want the reader to start off thinking, "What's the big deal? Why does this matter to him?" The story then explores the consequences, and hopefully the reader will eventually say, "Ah! I get it!" So, I've worked hard to develop story settings and structures that embody a Christian worldview - specifically a Lutheran worldview. It's actually very difficult. For example, I prefer Tolkien to Lewis. In [I]Lord of the Rings[/I] people wrinkle their brow and ask, "This was written by a Christian?" In [I]Narnia [/I]they say, "Well, that was blatant." Again, I prefer Tolkien. The danger with that subtle approach is directors like Peter Jackson. In the first film ([I]Fellowship of the Ring)[/I] I could still see Tolkien's vision and message. By the 3rd [I]Hobbit[/I] film it had been completely obliterated. I had trouble watching that one to the end as well. That's a high-level summary. I don't know if you were interested in a more in-depth discussion of the themes I write about or if you wanted a synopsis of an actual plot from a specific story. What do you like to write? [/QUOTE]
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