Letters to the Editor
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Only provocateurs excite me
Most writers are crap hacks.
Hollywood is flooded with junk product nobody really wants to see.
Then you look at Traffic or Syriana or Idiocracy, these are movies that excite and provoke, move the argument forward.
Look at The Aviator or Royal Tenenbaums or Lost in Translation, these are films where the dialog creates a palpable space within the film. They are not just words, but characters themselves, with dimension. To be respected.
Europe is better at the dialog between filmmaker and audience. Writers have value there. They MAKE value.
In America, writing for film is like some palliative, something to fill the next ten seconds with succor for the idle mind to remain idle. Then ten more seconds of idling. Don't forget to throw in the laugh track to remind people this shit is funny. God forbid you make them think or lust or despair-- might throw people into the loony bin then.
'Provocation' and 'Hollywood' are mutually exclusive ideas. Hollywood is an organ of the elites. The last thing they want to do is to rough up the waters.
No wonder the writers there lack value, they're just whores.