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Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« on: July 13, 2010, 08:28:15 PM »
Some of you guys may be unaware of the fact that some of you have life experiences that would be phenomenal material for  major Hollywood movie scripts.

I’ve discussed this movie script idea with some of you GetBiggers and will keep those discussions private unless they want to explain it further on this Board.

But here is a list of the GetBiggers who I “think” have interesting life experiences that could lead to one hell of a great movie script and possibly even an award of some type.

Grant should write a non-fiction script about his life experiences covering his early years in South Africa, his arrival in America, his bodybuilding competitive years, and all the details about getting into, and eventually out of, the porno industry. Add a bit of mystery to the real life fantasy and it just might be up for an Academy Award.

Bay should write a non-fiction script about his connection to the bodybuilding world and all his personal experiences with others in the ‘game’. Bay’s script should be honest without naming names and should be somewhat of a fantasy for the gay movie going audience. An Academy Award would not be possible for Bay but I am sure that there are numerous other awards available for such a story-line.

Ron should write a script about this GetBig Board and how he got it started and all the complications involved. The script should also include short takes on some of the more interesting GetBig critters and critter-ettes and the complications involved in his association with the sanctioning bodies (if any do in fact exist).

Chick should write a script about his job as Athletes’ Rep. Actually it would be pretty boring if it was written as it actually occurs, but it could be expanded to cover some of the unfound accusations that some of us GetBiggers throw at Bob each and every week and particularly before and after every major IFBB event.  Include those accusations in the script as actual occurences and it could turn out to be an interesting movie. Needless to say, it would be a script based on fiction and not on fact.

Swede should write a script about a young kid from Sweden who loves MMA and yearns to be associated with MMA in some official capacity and his endeavors to fulfill his dream. Needless to say Swede’s script would be based on fiction and should take us all on an informative tour of the under-belly of the MMA world and what it takes to be a champion while getting the shit kicked out of him on a pretty regular basis. Something like the original “Rocky” but much more vivid and revealing if such ‘thoughts’ are possible within the mind of our good friend Swede.

Disturbia should definitely write a movie script about his life experience! No question about that and the fact that if it was written properly, Hollywood would be banging on his front door and Tom and Brad and Emile and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Franco and Will would be begging to fill the role.  (Disturbia, pick Franco. If you don’t believe me, watch Pineapple Express. But first – get it written in the proper format).

There are a couple more GetBiggers that I can’t mention here because they are giving the idea of scripting their life experiences some very serious consideration.

There are so many life experience stories on this Board that would make phenomenal movie scripts …..  You guys are a scriptwriter’s dream come true but you fail to realize it just yet.

Get that script written and then we’ll start asking these other GetBiggers for the few million that will be needed to get it on film and into the movie houses.

Stallone did it and so can YOU!

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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2010, 08:34:45 PM »
man i hear that all the time. I dont have a clue how to write a script.  And really, is it worth a movie? I question that

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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2010, 08:38:08 PM »
if Akiva Goldsman can get his screenplays made into movies then anyone can

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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2010, 08:38:30 PM »
I would love to be the sleazy producer with the casting couch. But if I could be Irving Thalberg with Norma Shearer, that'd be nice, too.  :)

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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2010, 08:40:05 PM »
well distubia if you make a movie about yoru life i will more then gladly illigaly download it lol it would be an interesting watch lol
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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2010, 08:41:16 PM »
I've got some shit I've done and seen that would fit right in a fucked up movie

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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2010, 08:58:12 PM »
It seems like you all got something interesting to tell, but just don't know how to get it into the proper screen-play format or maybe you just have a problem with writing what comes into your mind about any give subject.

There are a number of great Movie Script writing programs such as Final Draft that may help you get started.

If you're serious, I suggest you state so here and I'll send you some info about writing for the movie studios I recently found on the net.

Dr Chimps, I think that's already been done.

Hollywood really does need new ideas and is avidly searching for them.


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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2010, 09:06:52 PM »
Just received a message so I assume that there is some interest in this topic.....

If you are interested, I strongly suggest that you start here and give it a good read.....

http://www.scriptwritingsecrets.com/

"The Hollywood Standard" is the Hollywood Bible for script writers.


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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2010, 09:11:32 PM »
It seems like you all got something interesting to tell, but just don't know how to get it into the proper screen-play format or maybe you just have a problem with writing what comes into your mind about any give subject.

There are a number of great Movie Script writing programs such as Final Draft that may help you get started.

If you're serious, I suggest you state so here and I'll send you some info about writing for the movie studios I recently found on the net.

Dr Chimps, I think that's already been done.

Hollywood really does need new ideas and is avidly searching for them.
Stay cool, stunt. I'm a huge movie fan, and meeting Robert Osborne would be amazing! Meeting Buster Keaton is probably out waaaaaaay out of your jd, or getting the Marx Bros. up for a role.  :)



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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2010, 09:24:22 PM »
I used to story consult for post grad students in screenwriting.

One cool one was a WW2 movie about a american unit cleaning up after the ceasefire in europe and getting trapped in a town where the locals had turned a bunch of nazis into zombies... pretty funny stuff.

Most of the stories were too personal and had elements that were important to the writer but that nobody else would really give a shit about.

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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2010, 10:06:59 PM »
HERE WE GO!

We got JWB as our script consultant. And that alone is priceless.

What's your fee, JW?

Now do we have a pro Red camera owner among us? Google it.

How bout an experienced Director?

A make up lady? And a Best Boy? What the hell does he do anyway?

An editor?

JW, I think I just saw that Nazi Zombie video on sale ($5.99) at my local grocery store. Was that town in the snow? I'll look for it again tomorrow.

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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2010, 11:09:12 PM »
HERE WE GO!

We got JWB as our script consultant. And that alone is priceless.

What's your fee, JW?

Now do we have a pro Red camera owner among us? Google it.

How bout an experienced Director?

A make up lady? And a Best Boy? What the hell does he do anyway?

An editor?

JW, I think I just saw that Nazi Zombie video on sale ($5.99) at my local grocery store. Was that town in the snow? I'll look for it again tomorrow.

I mainly did it to get into the girls pants and the professor was a friend who thought I had a talent for it from other stuff we'd done together years before.

There is a nazi zombie video game I believe and a euro movie about nazi zombies plus probably some others. Most ideas have been done in some form. Most good films steal the structural beats of other great films but most people don't pick it up.

Movies have changed though check out how SLOW most 70's thrillers are compared to the ones now... not that that is a good thing imo but people aren't as bright as they used to be so you can't make them think too much or they hate you for it.




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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #12 on: July 15, 2010, 09:04:46 PM »
Thanks, JW. Do you think that today's audience will understand "INCEPTION"?

Did you ever proof-read a script that was made by one of the major Hollywood studios?

Have you read 'Save the Cat' and what book do you recommend to learn script writing and script format besides "Hollywood Standard"?

And ... what script writing computer program do you consider to be the best?

I'm still trying to find that Nazi zombie movie I saw recently.

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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #13 on: July 15, 2010, 10:18:04 PM »
I have written and filmed many short skits before the internet became popular.  My partner has all of the tapes and refuses to let me have them or copy them.  We are no longer friends.  It was comedy gold.  Gold Jerry, Gold.

I took an English Comp class where we had to write short stories on experiences.  Me being 40 I had a lot more than the average college kid.  The professor wanted me to submit one to get it published but I declined. He said it was by far the best essay he had read in 30 years.  It was personal and if my family read it they would not have found it flattering.

My problem is I have so much to write about that to tie it all into a script would be a task.  I truly believe the best scripts are ones made from real life experience.


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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #14 on: July 15, 2010, 10:45:34 PM »
Lester, it sounds to me as though you might have some good material for a book rather than an actual screenplay. Have you considered that possibility?

OR .... If you have too many experiences to write about, it may be to your advantage to consider the possibility of writing a TV series. (A different format entirely.)

Were those tapes you no longer possess of any value?

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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #15 on: July 15, 2010, 11:19:40 PM »
A TV series would be cool but would last as long as "The Ropers"

My experiences could definitely be a movie no doubt about it.

Baseball prospect, drugs, parties, jobs, facing 30 years in prison, affair with wifes sister, back to facing felony charges, Always a white collar office guy.  No one I have worked with would ever believe the stuff I have done and still face.

Yeah Stunt,  Those tapes did hold value for me.  Not monetary but man we were the talk of school with what we made.  People were wanting to buy them from us.  A teacher of ours had locked one up in a cabinet and I broke in there after school to steal it back.  He said it was too great to let it go and it was officially school property since it was filmed in his class.  ::).  

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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #16 on: July 16, 2010, 03:32:25 AM »
Thanks, JW. Do you think that today's audience will understand "INCEPTION"?

Did you ever proof-read a script that was made by one of the major Hollywood studios?

Have you read 'Save the Cat' and what book do you recommend to learn script writing and script format besides "Hollywood Standard"?

And ... what script writing computer program do you consider to be the best?

I'm still trying to find that Nazi zombie movie I saw recently.
I just saw the trailer for inception it looks interesting but will have to see it to comment on it.

I've read tons of the books on screenwriting but I don't think any book can teach you good story instincts and can even confuse people with turning points on page 30 type advice.

William Goldman's books are a great read and he talks about the spine of the story which is good advice. One great story is how he told them to end chaplin when charles first develops the tramp character since he felt that 1. his early life was much more interesting than his stardom life and 2. everyone knew his story one he became the tramp anyway.

Another cool story of his was how he couldn't put some of the best, and funniest, parts of butch cassidy's life in the movie since it didn't occur in the timeframe his story had to be told in... the moral is you usually have to cut some of your best material to make something work - sometimes even the first stuff you think of that you are sure is essential to your tale.

I'm in australia but some stuff i advised on got made into tv movies etc... you'd be amazed how little some directors know about other films and especially story elements.


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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #17 on: July 16, 2010, 04:54:46 AM »
Thanks for that info, jwb.

Here's another book that an avid screenwriting friend of mine highly recommends....

. Screenwriter Blake Snyder is the author of the best-selling book, "Save the Cat! ® The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need."

And I have been told by others that "Save the Cat" and "The Hollywood Standard" are the two best books written about the subject.




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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #18 on: July 16, 2010, 05:06:42 AM »
Straight to DVD.

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« Reply #19 on: July 16, 2010, 06:01:39 AM »
Straight to DVD can be very profitable.

In fact many .... movies are made with the knowledge that they will not be profitable during their theatrical run, but that 'theatrical run' is merely a means of advertisement for that production's video sales.

Hollywood devises many ways to make its products profitable.

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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #20 on: July 16, 2010, 06:07:22 AM »
I wanna be in movies, but I got a face for radio.

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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #21 on: July 16, 2010, 06:24:42 AM »

Gotta have incredible talent like Joan.


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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #22 on: July 16, 2010, 06:53:16 AM »
HERE WE GO!

We got JWB as our script consultant. And that alone is priceless.

What's your fee, JW?

Now do we have a pro Red camera owner among us? Google it.

How bout an experienced Director?

A make up lady? And a Best Boy? What the hell does he do anyway?

An editor?

JW, I think I just saw that Nazi Zombie video on sale ($5.99) at my local grocery store. Was that town in the snow? I'll look for it again tomorrow.


benchmstr should do the music.
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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #23 on: July 16, 2010, 07:04:47 AM »
Gotta have incredible talent like Joan.

to perform a 3 chord cover of someone else's song?

Hell, even The Band had someone else write that song for them.

this is a much better showcase of Joan's talent:
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Re: Some of You Guys Are Movie Making Material.
« Reply #24 on: July 16, 2010, 09:15:00 AM »
Showstopper, with lines like that you should be a writer for the guy who gets no respect.

Got more?

One of my family members did a part of the score for Bill and Ted's Big/Excellent Adventure (or whatever that movie was called) and another is presently with Cirque touring Europe as a musician, but I have no idea how the music side of sho-biz works and I hate to watch any singer perform. Singers should be heard and not seen in my opinion.

Why pay $150 to watch someone sing songs for 90 minutes when you can simply turn on a radio and listen forever for free and get some work done at the same damn time?