----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > > It seems curious that when a movie is being made, not the writer, > director, actors,producers, nor anyone else on the set engages in weighty > esoteric analysis of what's being shot. They simply take a script, (each > with his, or her own particular talents to admix) and they shoot the > movie.WYSIWYG. > Danny H. > It is amazing how untrue this statement is. Granted, you will never see the writer, director and actors sit around a table each giving a dissertation about what the film their shooting means, but to think that some discussion does not enter the equation and that such thoughts do not go on in a filmmaker's head (and I am not limiting that term to directors) is ludicrous. WYSI*NOT ALWAYS*WYG. If that were the case, why would people like Martin Scorsese and Francis Coppola not only direct film but study it in a scholarly fashion. Hell, Scorsese analyzes his own films and talks about their religious subtext all the time. I don't know Danny H. or what he does, but as someone working in the film industry with independent filmmakers every day, it would seem to me that I won't be seeing him around any day soon. RBH <--> AMD ----------------------+------------------------------------------------------- Rex B. Hannah |----------->"Speak to me softly ... [log in to unmask] |-----------> Talk to me gently ... |-----------> Just don't leave me alone." ----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------