Vic Milt on another thread gave this piece of advice
never write anything, anywhere - that you wouldn't want your client to read out loud to you - because having that particular situation totally sucks!
It reminded me of this clip from Kevin Smith lecture which a friend sent me today. (Just went to find the clip, but it's already been taken down from YouTube.)
EDIT Just found another version of the clip
. It's a very amusing 20 min. It contains profanity.
It's Kevin Smith talking about when was given the job of writing a script for the Superman franchise and he has to work for Jon Peters who somehow went from being Barbra Streisand's hairdresser to being a major Hollywood producer. I'm not a big Kevin Smith fan, but his story of working on this script and Peters' insane plot ideas and basic ignorance of the Superman story is hiliarious. (Also I thought he could dis Peters like this because he was dead, but I had mistaken him for Don Simpson who died of a cocaine overdose.)
If you're going to watch the clip, do so, before reading the rest of this, cuz it will be funnier.
Peters said he had three rules for the script.
1 Superman can't wear the suit.
2. Superman can't fly.
3. He must fight a giant spider in the third act.
Peters also seemed to pretty ignorant of who Superman is (he wanted to cast Sean Penn because Superman needed the look of a crazed psycho in his eyes), didn't know that Superman isn't called Superman on his home planet, wanted to add a Chewbaca and a gay R2-D2 character. When you are the writer of Jon Peters movie, you have to go to his house and read him the script, because the rumor around Hollywood is he's illiterate.
never write anything, anywhere - that you wouldn't want your client to read out loud to you - because having that particular situation totally sucks!
It reminded me of this clip from Kevin Smith lecture which a friend sent me today. (Just went to find the clip, but it's already been taken down from YouTube.)
EDIT Just found another version of the clip
. It's a very amusing 20 min. It contains profanity.It's Kevin Smith talking about when was given the job of writing a script for the Superman franchise and he has to work for Jon Peters who somehow went from being Barbra Streisand's hairdresser to being a major Hollywood producer. I'm not a big Kevin Smith fan, but his story of working on this script and Peters' insane plot ideas and basic ignorance of the Superman story is hiliarious. (Also I thought he could dis Peters like this because he was dead, but I had mistaken him for Don Simpson who died of a cocaine overdose.)
If you're going to watch the clip, do so, before reading the rest of this, cuz it will be funnier.
Peters said he had three rules for the script.
1 Superman can't wear the suit.
2. Superman can't fly.
3. He must fight a giant spider in the third act.
Peters also seemed to pretty ignorant of who Superman is (he wanted to cast Sean Penn because Superman needed the look of a crazed psycho in his eyes), didn't know that Superman isn't called Superman on his home planet, wanted to add a Chewbaca and a gay R2-D2 character. When you are the writer of Jon Peters movie, you have to go to his house and read him the script, because the rumor around Hollywood is he's illiterate.