4:00 p.m.
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I don't agree with the idea that one person should write a script by herself. It's a stupid idea. Aaron Sorkin, is considered, the best. I learned from his MasterClass. I am writing dialogue into my script.
BUT.
There's a few problems.
There are* a few problems with this:
1. I think in the real world, people watch their mouths now. They are aware of the cancel culture. They are afraid of being shouted at. It's a very oestrogen driven world we live in nowadays.
This is perhaps, a good thing. People share negative views in private, at least, I do. I think people nowadays write their negative views in their diaries and then make a list of people they hate, and ask G-d to███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
People say things with intent, with motive, with tact, with finesse and style.
Why is this a problem, you may ask?
What's the point, Lehan?
Get to the point, Lehan?
Well, you are programming people with media, so if they see people do xyz, if they see people drink Coca Cola in Jaws, or scream at each other, or kill each other, they may have that programming implanted into their minds, and it normalises it.
So, they may want to do it too.
This is why, it's good when dialogue is clever, when there are no umms or buts, and other human errors. Good dialogue writers avoid things like, complete sentences to mimic human speech. Contractions like ain't are useful.
2. When you write the dialogue for characters A, B, C, D, E and F. Six people. How are you truly supposed to do it? They are not real people. In The Social Network, you might think, oh Zuckerberg, real person. But nope. It's a fictionalised interpretation of that person. It's an actor playing a role. It even says that this is a work of fiction in the disclaimer, and any you know, any resemblance is a pure coincidence.
So, what, Lehan?
I don't get it?
Here, it's too fake. You are creating fixed characters, with a particular set of character attributes. Oh, so, this guy, Zuckerberg, he is like this. He has 03 out of 10 strength, 8 intelligence, 5 wisdom, 4 charisma, and i guess, 2 luck. He has this ruthless character trait.
So, he must always be this way.
Yes, there is a restricted movement in his character arc, his attributes grow by 2 points throughout the filmed portion of this drama presentation--even if wisdom falls by 2 points, but that is okay.
This is not very realistic. In real life, people often grow, they learn, this is not captured in film making.
It's often a punitive portrayal, a punishing, journalistic depiction, or representation, to prove a point, to make the audience feel a certain way about the case.
3. Those people, they do not talk that way. It's not natural, it feels fake, it feels IMPERFECT.
I would prefer, if people, even if AARON SORKIN or LEHAN EDIRISINGHE are the screenplay writers, that they checked it out, they spoke it.
Made it seem good, seem realistic.
Quentin says, "NO", I pay you to say my lines.
But I disagree.
