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[Blacklabel]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/business/media/solving-equation-of-a-hit-film-script-with-data.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

For as much as $20,000 per script, Mr. Bruzzese and a team of analysts compare the story structure and genre of a draft script with those of released movies, looking for clues to box-office success. His company, Worldwide Motion Picture Group, also digs into an extensive database of focus group results for similar films and surveys 1,500 potential moviegoers. What do you like? What should be changed?

Mr. Bruzzese, a movie enthusiast with a seemingly encyclopedic memory of screenplays, also speaks bluntly, a rarity in Hollywood.

"All screenwriters think their babies are beautiful," he said, taking a chug of Diet Dr Pepper followed by a gulp of Diet Coke and a drag on a Camel. "I'm here to tell it like it is: Some babies are ugly."

lol

And some thoughts on this...

Joyce Carol Oates ‏@JoyceCarolOates 4h

High fees of "screenplay doctor" suggest, shockingly, that new generation of screenwriters are ignorant of the old cliches & formulae.

[SiL]

"It takes a lot of the risk out of what I do," said Scott Steindorff, a producer who used Mr. Bruzzese to evaluate the script for "The Lincoln Lawyer," a hit 2011 crime drama. "Everyone is going to be doing this soon." Mr. Steindorff added, "The only people who are resistant are the writers: 'I'm making art, I can't possibly do this.' "

So many anger feels.

[DoomRulz]

"Never point your weapon at anything your unwilling to destroy," should apply to everyone who owns a weapon.  Not just people in the military.

You'd have to translate that into plain English, "Never point your weapon at anything you won't shoot". It might sound redundant but I wouldn't give people too much credit.

[Hubbs]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/30/kentucky-shooting_n_3189828.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Note to all UK parents, give your 5yr old children rifles for gifts.

Thats my home state.  And I was handling guns when I was about 7 or 8.  The difference is if I'd have been caught handling it like it was a toy I'd have had my ass wooped.  Likewise the only time I really took the .22 out was to shoot it.  The rest of the time it stayed locked up with the bolt open so when you got it out you already knew it was unloaded.

I wouldn't mind an age restriction on guns though to be honest.  So many people do treat them like toys and have no respect for them and typically you mature as you get older. 

"Never point your weapon at anything your unwilling to destroy," should apply to everyone who owns a weapon.  Not just people in the military.

No offence but you Americans are nuts, completely fudging insane, the end.

[SpreadEagleBeagle]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/30/kentucky-shooting_n_3189828.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Note to all UK parents, give your 5yr old children rifles for gifts.

Thats my home state.  And I was handling guns when I was about 7 or 8.  The difference is if I'd have been caught handling it like it was a toy I'd have had my ass wooped.  Likewise the only time I really took the .22 out was to shoot it.  The rest of the time it stayed locked up with the bolt open so when you got it out you already knew it was unloaded.

I wouldn't mind an age restriction on guns though to be honest.  So many people do treat them like toys and have no respect for them and typically you mature as you get older. 

"Never point your weapon at anything your unwilling to destroy," should apply to everyone who owns a weapon.  Not just people in the military.

No offence but you Americans are nuts, completely fudging insane, the end.

And that's the sad truth right there.

[DoomRulz]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/30/kentucky-shooting_n_3189828.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Note to all UK parents, give your 5yr old children rifles for gifts.

Thats my home state.  And I was handling guns when I was about 7 or 8.  The difference is if I'd have been caught handling it like it was a toy I'd have had my ass wooped.  Likewise the only time I really took the .22 out was to shoot it.  The rest of the time it stayed locked up with the bolt open so when you got it out you already knew it was unloaded.

I wouldn't mind an age restriction on guns though to be honest.  So many people do treat them like toys and have no respect for them and typically you mature as you get older. 

"Never point your weapon at anything your unwilling to destroy," should apply to everyone who owns a weapon.  Not just people in the military.

No offence but you Americans are nuts, completely fudging insane, the end.

Americans are the insane ones in this world, really? Coulda fooled me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Rhys_Jones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungerford_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria_shootings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre

[SpreadEagleBeagle]

Nice findings DoomRulz, but the sad truth is that no other so called "first-world country" beats us (...U.S) when it comes to being bat shit crazy for cuckoo puffs bananas looney f****ng nuts.

[Crazy Rich]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/30/kentucky-shooting_n_3189828.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Note to all UK parents, give your 5yr old children rifles for gifts.

Thats my home state.  And I was handling guns when I was about 7 or 8.  The difference is if I'd have been caught handling it like it was a toy I'd have had my ass wooped.  Likewise the only time I really took the .22 out was to shoot it.  The rest of the time it stayed locked up with the bolt open so when you got it out you already knew it was unloaded.

I wouldn't mind an age restriction on guns though to be honest.  So many people do treat them like toys and have no respect for them and typically you mature as you get older. 

"Never point your weapon at anything your unwilling to destroy," should apply to everyone who owns a weapon.  Not just people in the military.

No offence but you Americans are nuts, completely fudging insane, the end.

Americans are the insane ones in this world, really? Coulda fooled me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Rhys_Jones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungerford_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria_shootings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre

Jack the Ripper, nuff said.

[Hubbs]

You have kids shooting each other with rifles that the parents give to them as gifts! yet still no one really wants to actually properly do anything about it. Quite happy to put if off and pretend everything is OK because end of the day, guns are more important to the American way than anything else...it seems.

You can't dredge up old history like the Ripper or the odd nasty incident to compare, every country has stuff from time to time, but Americans refuse to do anything about the constant horrendous incidents they keep having on a monthly basis.

Plus now you guys are making guns from 3D printers  as if you don't have enough gun trouble jesus.

[DoomRulz]

Nice findings DoomRulz, but the sad truth is that no other so called "first-world country" beats us (...U.S) when it comes to being bat shit crazy for cuckoo puffs bananas looney f****ng nuts.

But that doesn't make you the only nutty country in the world. You may be crazy when it comes to gun control, but other countries have problems that make you folks seem perfectly sane. A woman still can't be in the same room as a man she isn't married to in Saudi Arabia.

[Hubbs]

Yeah but we all know the Middle East is a tad medieval lets be honest, the US is suppose to be THE number one country in the world for freedom, quality of life, morals blah blah blah....You guys are suppose to be the shinning example to the rest of the world hehe or at least you think you are.

[DoomRulz]

I'm Canadian.

As for the Arab World being Medieval, I won't disagree but the point still remains that the U.S. isn't the only country in the world with its share of nutbars. They're all over the place if you look around hard enough.

[Crazy Rich]

Yeah but we all know the Middle East is a tad medieval lets be honest, the US is suppose to be THE number one country in the world for freedom, quality of life, morals blah blah blah....

That's actually Estonia. Ireland is 2nd and Canada is 3rd from what I remember.

The U.S and U.K are right beside each other in between 10th and 7th.

[Hubbs]

Ireland??!!!! where's Oz, Japan, Switzerland and New Zealand?

[LarsVader]

If one takes a good look at this



in relation to that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

things should be much clearer.