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A Hollywood writing...my two cents is as follows... <BR/> <BR/>A Hollywood writing career is a very subjective thing, and very few writers experience anything close to "job security." Very few screenwriters are lucky enough to sell more than one or two scripts that actually get produced and released in their entire lifetimes. Therefore, it's of the utmost importance that the WGA suck it up once and for all, and hold out for anything and everything that we writers deserve. Even as much as retaining of copyright of our original scripts, if that's what it takes. Stage writers enjoy complete intellectual property rights for their art for life; in many cases they also enjoy much clout in the productions whenever their plays are licensed and produced. <BR/> <BR/>Television -- especially since the advent of DVD box sets -- and feature films have much higher profit potential than stage productions, and therefore the value of quality writing increases exponentially. Writers deserve as much respect as the other "above the line" entities (actors, directors, and -- ugh! -- producers), and this means a much more fair share of the profits. And the only way to ever garner such proper respect from the industry is to hold firm, once and for all, until the producers themselves begin to have to contemplate how they're going to pay THEIR mortgages for a change. That means walking the picket line until the TV audience begins to make very loud noises about not having their "24" or their "Desperate Housewives," for an entire season! And even walking it till the movie studios start having to pore over those piles upon piles of mediocre scripts they would never give a green light to without major rewrites, and now there's no talented rewriters available to fix them. Suddenly, even the "elite" film people begin to realize just how important a talented writer is to his or her own livelihood. Suddenly, it becomes a little more plausible to sacrifice that new cabin cruiser or second vacation home in order to continue to make their payments on the main house. Suddenly, the Brads and Julias and Georges and Ridleys and Clints and Martins may have to accept a paltry ten or fifteen million per picture instead of their usual twenty in order that the person who conceived the story and the very words they speak be able to afford their necessary inkjet refills and endless upgrades of Final Draft. <BR/> <BR/>As for all those poor folks who are currently unemployed due to the strike... I give a big, fat "Awwww! Poor babies." In case they haven't figured it out yet, careers in the "entertainment industry" are anything but secure. In fact, it's usually the production staffs and crew who are the most used to "down time" and periods of unemployment. Given the nature of the biz, it's expected, and usually prepared for. At least by the smart ones, anyway. <BR/> <BR/>Above-the-line skills -- a.k.a. "The Talent" -- often work for little or even nothing for YEARS before their break comes, if ever. Staff and crew positions usually become paid ones after only serving a short time as an intern. It is not the responsibility of the Talent to look out for the needs of everyone else. In fact, if staff and crew want more secure jobs, they should support the Talent all the more in their quest for equal respect and compensation in order to avert future strikes that could potentially affect their own livelihoods. Practically speaking, if job security is so important to them, they should choose another industry to work in, period. <BR/> <BR/>People take the skill of writing a script for granted, when it's the exact opposite that's true. Pushing a camera dolly, plugging in lights, building sets, sewing costumes, even organizing all of that together -- which is what Producers do, btw -- is really not that difficult to learn for most people. Even acting is a skill that can be mastered by anyone willing enough to give up their fear of looking foolish to others and simply play make-believe convincingly. The rest is accident of birth and whether or not your parents' DNA created a combo that looks and sounds good on camera. <BR/> <BR/>The most important "talent" in film are the director and the writer. In TV, it's ALL about the writer. Yet everyone and their uncle thinks they can do it. They can't. It's hard. It takes years, even decades, to start to become even proficient at it, let alone master the art. Yet we writers continue to bend over and take whatever Hollywood deems we deserve because we love the art form so much, we enthusiastically do it for free on a regular basis. And until we demonstrate to the system that those days are over once and for all, we will gladly take whatever pittance they throw at us that's just a little more than before, and call it victory. <BR/> <BR/>If the WGA truly wants fair compensation for what its members deserve according to their contribution to the industry, then it will bite the bullet for as long as is necessary to force those in power to rethink their evil and greedy ways. The writers HAVE the power to change the status quo forever. They need only to gut it out until those who "think" they have the power begin to suffer real hardships, and then events will begin to unfold that will awaken screenwriters to the reality that has been there all along. <BR/> <BR/>I support the strike for as long as it takes to bring RADICAL change to the current compensatory system. However, if the WGA is simply going to cave in exchange for a marginal increase and/or participation in DVD and Internet distribution, then perhaps it really will have all been for nothing. <BR/> <BR/>Until then, I'll be self-producing my own writing for webcasts, where my art will find its own audience (or not) and I don't have to play Hollywood's game that's rigged so that the "house" always wins.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com