"Whatever, Scarlett", LMAO, anyway, you're right, without writers actors would have to say what comes in their heads, for some it's easy but for others it's difficult
To: "jvlopez9291." These are made up/altered movie quotations. The 'revised' words here do not promote the necessity of writers. Certainly we need literary writers and truly creative artists to enrich and educate us. Many of the films here are classics, and the real lines of the writers should be quoted in order to better illustrate what "A World without Writers" might look like!
The only problem with this video is that the monologue from blade runner was improvised...I love this video though...power to the writers...glad the stirke is over, we'll just have to wait and see though if the deal was good or not
Notwithstanding the allegedly improvised monologue, there is a misconception that writers only create dialogue. This is akin to crediting an architect merely with selecting the finishes! If this video is guilty of one thing, it is in perpetuating the fallacy.
You would seriously propose that dialogue in Movies and TV shows is the equivalent of finishes in architecture?
That egregiously flawed claim aside, this video does not imply anywhere within it that this is all they do, merely that it is something they do that would be done worse without them to do it.
Socialist entertaiment sucks, folks. It's the current system that keeps the cream rising to the top. The creamy level of entertainment that we all love. Go see what the Cubans have to watch! It's awful!!!! COMMIE! COMMIE! COMMIE!!!
Wait, wait, you'll love this one. A video titled "A World WITH Writers" showing images of children getting their limbs blown off in Baghdad or filling their empty belies with dirt in Port-au-Prince. Or Larry Silverstein getting that multi-billion dollar insurance settlement for 9/11. Or unelected Conservo-Fascist puppet George Bush seizing the White House twice while the laugh track goes on without a break. HAHAHAHA that would be some funny shit.
How about a video of people socializing, and families interacting, and people reading books and practiciung piano and studying, and having an ongoing active role in the decisions of their elective representatives. You could title it "A World without Writers (of Typical TV and Movie Escapist Crap)."
But you'd have to add a photo of yourself, sitting hunched over your laptop spending hour after hour after hour after hour posting bitter anti-WGA rants... LOL
Don't fret, Zoop. I am confident the strike will be over soon, what with all those great pro-union classic big-budget Hollywood films year after year influencing society for the better, such as 1954's "On the Waterfront," and, um, well yeah, 1954's "On the Waterfront," and, uh ...
You're forgetting "The Molly MacGuires" and "Norma Rae" from 1970 and 79, and "Cradle Will Rock" in 1999. And what about "The Replacements" in 2000 -- oh wait, that one's about how fabulous it is to be a scab. Never mind.
And you know, the massage of "On the Waterfront" was that labor unions are rackets run by organized crime, as were other big budget union-themed films like "F.I.S.T." (lol that title!) and "Hoffa." Elia Kazan intended "Waterfront" to be an apologia for his naming names of Hollywood communists at the McCarthy HUAC hearings, thereby destroying careers, something he did at the urging of Hollywood studio bosses. Walt Disney was a famous union buster, blacklist supporter and proud FBI informer.
I LOVED the last one. Hilarious! Great Video too. I can't watch The Office until the writer's go back to work, and as an aspiring writer, I agree with their cause. SUPPORT YOUR HOLLYWOOD WRITERS!!!
Blade Runner - "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
Gone with the Wind - "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"
On the Waterfront - "I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley."
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If the writers want a fair salary then they should ask for it when they are hired. Not bitch afterwards. Also, please writers, give up your salary when there is a loss in profits. Oh yeah....thats never going to happen. Please go produce if you want a profit.
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Grant I couldn't agree more. The working writers make a ton of cash. I walk past their offices and see the $100K cars lined up like slices of cheese. Writers should be fined their residuals when they write crappy shows that last 2 episodes like Viva Laughin.
It's not like a bad show will get them much in the way of residuals anyway. And if people do buy it, that's capitalism.
Besides, directors, producers, actors, and a bunch of other people can contribute to the success or failure of a show or movie. It's not just the writers.
Basically, the writers don't get paid for anything that they created which is on the Internet (iTunes or streaming video on network websites), and they get paid dirt for all those DVDs that are selling with their work in them.
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There are plenty of writers out there that are good but aren't in the union so their never going to get the chance. So we have to put up with re-make after re-make bullshit. If the writers want more money they should have asked for it when they took the job. How about this. When a studio looses money let the writers take the loss as well!!
Sure, as long as they also share the profits. Ah, well then... no more multi-million dollar yearly compensation to CEOs like NBC's Ben Silverman.. even as his network is losing money.
Ben Silverman works damn hard to maintain a company that employs thousands. Is he supposed to work for nothing? You sound like one of those conspiracy theorists wailing about who really controls Hollywood. Grow up.
Your issue with the quality of the content is not just the writers... But it is irreverent to the issue. The WGA has no control over who gets hired to write, it just wants to make sure that who ever does get hired to write the show or movie gets paid a fair amount based on the profit that is earned. That's all.
We all know who stars in our favorite movies. We know who directs them, who produced them... do we even know what a producer DOES? We've lost appreciation for the art and the craft that is writing. They deserve more than what they're getting; without them, TV shows and movies have ground to a halt in mid-production.
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A nice luxury :(. Seriously though the only loss there would be is good TV shows for a few years and a loss of jobs. And the people who went on strike couldn't complain
You know how many times people got that line from Scarface wrong? Its "I'm not a #$^#$ worm like you, look at you now!" NOT "look what you made me do" or the scene in Bad Santa in the dressing room, its a week not a month. (watch the clips, you'll know what I mean) wow, we really do need writers, NOT!
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Stay on strike - We don't need the Hollywood's good 'ol boys club - I hope the union falls apart and some talented people are hired to do your jobs! Why don't you try actually getting a job based on MERIT instead of relying on a union to negotiate everything for you?
Seriously. Don't tell me most people can write, that it's easy. Most people can't even talk properly, or write a sentence without using 'ur' and '2day.' This video is completely dead-on.
Well, I think there's a difference between creative work and technical work. Intellectual Property and Copyright laws are there to protect the creative work, and does not apply to technical work. The writers asking for residue from internet sales are like authors asking for royalty on books printed online or transferred to audible formats. The recording studios or web programmers don't.
What about a world without the camera department? The sound department? The grips, electrics, wardrobe, hair, makeup, script supervisor, art department, props, editors? The rest of the crew? I guess only writers can make a movie, that's why the rest of us are now out of work due to the strike.
I'm sorry that the writers are causing so much problems...
I'm might not know that much, but I think that the writers have a right to be angry, but they're taking out their anger in the wrong sort of fashion...
Oh, for God's sake! No one ever said that the writers were more important than everyone else involved. The writers just decided that they didn't enjoy getting royally fucked.
"Rosebud" was also the nickname WR Hearst reportedly gave to his mistress' anatomy. When he saw it used in this film he was angry and that's supposedly one reason he tried to destroy Welles.
"we're going to need a bigger boat" was ad-libbed. But even improve is inspired by good characters being played by good actors that are fleshed out with other lines written by good writers. Even if it was based off of a book (which Jaws was) you still need a writer to adapt that book. Adaptation, trust me I've tried, is very hard.
Guess the movie of these great one liners : -My motherfaka is so cool, when he goes to bed, sheeps count him... -Never mess with mother nature, mother in laws and motherfreaking ukrainians... -This is the nineties, you just don't go around punching people, you gotta say something cool first...-I once asked a literary agent what kind of writing paid the most he said Ransom Notes... -we're on a deserted island, picking up diamonds in case we ever get picked up...
Im not trying to have witty writing, I'm trying to insult you. Maybe you don't know what speaking is and always wrote yourself lines instead of interacting, but this is how people sound when they are not fakes.
But why do you diss the writers if you were one yourself? Was it a decade of misery and peanut butter?
and please enlighten me! What is the biggest adlibbed cinema masterpiece of all time? I agree it can be done as an experimental technique and is worth a look as any creative tryout but are they really the best? You gotta know better than this !
I do support the writers, but I had to reply to that: Christopher Guest's mockumentaries (This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, etc.) are improv. Not necessarily the best, but certainly not bad.
Actors who can do improv well are rare. Also the outlines for Guest films were WRITTEN.
Some of you are missing the point. It is a much poorer world without writers' contributions, but the studios don't want to pay what that contribution is worth.
Without the writers, there is no Hollywood. No sitcoms, no dramas, no movies. Just documentaries and reality shows. blech. And good writers give us great memories. And they should be well compensated for that.
you forgot to put in transformers,spiderman3, those pirate movies, antthing with keanu reeves, the new star wars, everything on t.v. Honestly I was amazed there are any writers in hollywood.
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sorry i get bored with slide shows. and sorry that people think theres good writers in hollywood.
just name a good show on right now
opps you can't if you can by the time you do it'll be a bad show because tv never knows when to quit shows start out good and then they just gooo on &on&on till they can't milk anymore money out of it case in point "the office"(U.S. version).
I think the original poster completely missed the point, despite his good intentions. Writers create more than witty dialogue or one-liners. These entire _films_ would never have existed without writers. The shark would never have attacked the down, and Evelyn Mulray would never have pointed a gun at anyone because Chinatown would never have existed.
I know it's not really the point...but some of these were really funny. I would've loved to have seen some of these actually get used. Anyway, I do sympathise with the writers. Although I'm dreading what TV will look like in a few months if this goes on too long.
As some poster said before me, technically speaking, every one who took part in the project deserves compensation. Think about all the successful special effects movies where the scripts sucked. Writers get some cents every time someone buys that DVD to show off his new TV or surround system. The SFX team, Sound team and so on get nothing.
I totally think that the writers should get the money they deserve, but why doesn't someone else just come up with something? I mean it's probably more difficult than it seems to write for a show but everyone is acting like the writers are the only ones who know how to write something. Maybe it's a legality thing...
Writers write; actors act; etc. The difference between a pro and an amateur can be witnessed easily here on Youtube.
And most of the pros -- even those not in the WGA -- do not want to blacken their good names by crossing the picket line, which would also run counter to the efforts of all writers to demand reasonable payment for their work.
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"all writers to demand reasonable payment for their work."
All writers are already getting paid whatever they are worth to the people paying them. They aren't fighting for better wages, they are fighting for residuals from sales in new media platforms. Why should EVERY writer be automatically due residuals for anything they write?
Dude, residuals are a form of deferred payment that recognize the fact that a movie or TV show is not monetized immediately, but creates a revenue stream. The alternative to residuals is not no residuals, it's more money up front.
And to answer your question, the answer to 'why' is 'because we won't work for you if we don't get them'.
From what I understand, the gist of the new labor agreement has to do with the internet and how writers will get paid for say each copy of CSI downloaded from Apple's iTunes. Right now the writers don't get squat which is not really right. I think they are getting shafted and I kind of feel for them. They are also getting shafted on DVD's since they only get .04 cents for each $20 DVD sold. They want .08 cents which sounds reasonable.
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Stay out on strike you bums!! If you had any talent you would write a novel not 22 minutes of drivel. Take your Ugly Betty and Lost and Heroes and stick them up your slacker ass!
Don't worry, we're all writing our novels and spec screenplays, editing our documentaries, working on our pitches and so on. Do you know how much EASIER it is to sell a novel than a feature pitch or a sitcom? I guess not. Anyway, we'll be here creating value for ourselves while you're sitting on your ass watching SURVIVOR reruns. Enjoy, sucker.
You asshole. You fricking prick. If you don't like a show, don't watch it! But do NOT belittle these writers for fighting for a just wage that is rightfully theirs. Do you know how much work it takes to write a script? Maybe you think they're rolling in dough--They're not, ESPECIALLY if they're not staff writers. Or you think what they do is unimportant--That's your right, but they still deserve to get paid. Or maybe you're just an asshole. I'll go with that one. Stick THAT up your slacker ass!
Pianopinay29, has just demonstrated his ability to write great dialog. If a character in his script said it, it would sound like real speech. Put "Stick that up your stacker.." with the great lines in movie history. Even if you say he's wrong, you can see his writing talent.
The lines about attack ships on fire and the C-Beams glittering were written, not improvised. Rutger Hauer says:
"Everyone always writes about me and that speech, and ignores the screenwriter. I thought David Peoples... really did a beautiful job... I loved those images he came up with -'c-beams glittering near the Tannhauser gate, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion'. I thought they were really interesting, even if you didn't understand them."
Yes. The opening of the speech was, of course, written by Peoples. However, the final line of that soliloquy, "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain" were improvised by Hauer. Clearly the striking writers should make sure, under any new agreement, that key scenes improvised by actors are duly compensated.
I've seen things... (long pause) seen things you little people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium... I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. (pause) all those moments... they'll be gone.
Hauer essentially came up with the "tears in rain" bit, but thats about it...
Still...both these two professional deserve their due. Both deserve compensation for the parts they played in bringing this iconic scene into being. The lines are nothing without someone to speak them and someone with nothing to say is far from iconic.
"Still...both these two professional deserve their due"
True. And so do the Art Directors who TRULY made Blade Runner a film worth seeing. Not to mention Jordan Cronenweth's cinematography that allows us to watch Hauer deliver this line. Oh, and... of course, without the sound department we never would have heard this line anyway! So I guess every single person who worked on this movie is due residuals from any sales of this title in any new media market.
"Hauer essentially came up with the "tears in rain" bit, but thats about it..."
Yes. I just said that, did I not? And are you trying to discount the power of the closing line? To me, THAT'S the line that sells the scene, and to an extent, the film. If Joe Mantell had improvised "Forget Jake, it's Chinatown" would you say "that's about it" about his contribution?
LMAO, "My Sled!" ... would have ruined the whole movie..
onlookerification 1 year ago
"Whatever, Scarlett", LMAO, anyway, you're right, without writers actors would have to say what comes in their heads, for some it's easy but for others it's difficult
Lonewolfjedi 1 year ago
To: "jvlopez9291." These are made up/altered movie quotations. The 'revised' words here do not promote the necessity of writers. Certainly we need literary writers and truly creative artists to enrich and educate us. Many of the films here are classics, and the real lines of the writers should be quoted in order to better illustrate what "A World without Writers" might look like!
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ToniMaples 2 years ago
love it!
mymorningstory 2 years ago
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i wish this was funny.
spanningtime 3 years ago
GREAT!
woodywoodsen 3 years ago
The only problem with this video is that the monologue from blade runner was improvised...I love this video though...power to the writers...glad the stirke is over, we'll just have to wait and see though if the deal was good or not
ikilledgodot 4 years ago
Notwithstanding the allegedly improvised monologue, there is a misconception that writers only create dialogue. This is akin to crediting an architect merely with selecting the finishes! If this video is guilty of one thing, it is in perpetuating the fallacy.
ACGalley 4 years ago
Touche! I actuallly couldn't agree more, I am both a playwright and an improv comedian and I think you hit this right on the money
ikilledgodot 4 years ago
You would seriously propose that dialogue in Movies and TV shows is the equivalent of finishes in architecture?
That egregiously flawed claim aside, this video does not imply anywhere within it that this is all they do, merely that it is something they do that would be done worse without them to do it.
toReasonWhy 3 years ago
I like the fac that the "About this video" feature of the page reads :What would the movies be like without writers (less). I couldn't agree more.
Dtrasler 4 years ago 3
Quit your jobs! Go find something useful to do!
COMMIES! COMMIES! COMMIES!!
I like ranting like that, even though I have no idea what communism is. Writing is fun!
Schmoogee 4 years ago
Socialist entertaiment sucks, folks. It's the current system that keeps the cream rising to the top. The creamy level of entertainment that we all love. Go see what the Cubans have to watch! It's awful!!!! COMMIE! COMMIE! COMMIE!!!
Schmoogee 4 years ago
The Network reference was the best :D
thefallinggirl 4 years ago
Wait, wait, you'll love this one. A video titled "A World WITH Writers" showing images of children getting their limbs blown off in Baghdad or filling their empty belies with dirt in Port-au-Prince. Or Larry Silverstein getting that multi-billion dollar insurance settlement for 9/11. Or unelected Conservo-Fascist puppet George Bush seizing the White House twice while the laugh track goes on without a break. HAHAHAHA that would be some funny shit.
zooooooperdooooooper 4 years ago
Spoken, in a world with writers:
"Mission accomplished."
"I did not have sex with that woman."
"Read my lips: no new taxes."
"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."
"I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times."
"There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration."
"I am not a crook."
adamocortes 4 years ago 3
Or, "A World Without Unionized Writers"
seanman 4 years ago
How about a video of people socializing, and families interacting, and people reading books and practiciung piano and studying, and having an ongoing active role in the decisions of their elective representatives. You could title it "A World without Writers (of Typical TV and Movie Escapist Crap)."
freestuffffff 4 years ago
But you'd have to add a photo of yourself, sitting hunched over your laptop spending hour after hour after hour after hour posting bitter anti-WGA rants... LOL
RynnJacobs 4 years ago
LOL!
CoraHallett 4 years ago
LOLZ. Yeah this is terrible. If the Hollywood writers strike goes on much longer movies and tv will not just suck, but suck in perpetual reruns.
zooooooperdooooooper 4 years ago 4
Don't fret, Zoop. I am confident the strike will be over soon, what with all those great pro-union classic big-budget Hollywood films year after year influencing society for the better, such as 1954's "On the Waterfront," and, um, well yeah, 1954's "On the Waterfront," and, uh ...
freestuffffff 4 years ago 2
You're forgetting "The Molly MacGuires" and "Norma Rae" from 1970 and 79, and "Cradle Will Rock" in 1999. And what about "The Replacements" in 2000 -- oh wait, that one's about how fabulous it is to be a scab. Never mind.
zooooooperdooooooper 4 years ago 4
And you know, the massage of "On the Waterfront" was that labor unions are rackets run by organized crime, as were other big budget union-themed films like "F.I.S.T." (lol that title!) and "Hoffa." Elia Kazan intended "Waterfront" to be an apologia for his naming names of Hollywood communists at the McCarthy HUAC hearings, thereby destroying careers, something he did at the urging of Hollywood studio bosses. Walt Disney was a famous union buster, blacklist supporter and proud FBI informer.
zooooooperdooooooper 4 years ago
Very few of the movies shown were "escapist crap." Just FYI.
thefallinggirl 4 years ago
lol my sled
drummastajoel 4 years ago
"My sled!"
heine71 4 years ago
i love the gone with the wind one, as "I don't give a damn" was huge swearing back then for the screen
readingwench 4 years ago
love it.
I'm missing my shows and all, but it's not right what the studios are doing.
The awards shows not being on are making me a bit sad though...kinda wanted to see johnny make a speech :D
readingwench 4 years ago
I LOVED the last one. Hilarious! Great Video too. I can't watch The Office until the writer's go back to work, and as an aspiring writer, I agree with their cause. SUPPORT YOUR HOLLYWOOD WRITERS!!!
SpoonFilms 4 years ago
in order of appearance:
It's a Wonderful Life - "A toast to my big brother George: The richest man in town"
2001: A Space Odyssey - "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." + following dialogue
A Few Good Men - "I want the truth." - "You can't handle the truth."
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges"
Hawaii Five-O - "Book him, Danno. Murder one."
facemanbjk 4 years ago 2
Blade Runner - "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
Gone with the Wind - "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"
On the Waterfront - "I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley."
facemanbjk 4 years ago 2
Grey's Anatomy - various dialogue
House MD - various dialogue
Apocalypse Now - "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. [...] Smelled like victory"
Network - "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
Jaws - "You're gonna need a bigger boat."
Casablanca - "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
Chinatown - "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
Citizen Kane - "Rosebud"
facemanbjk 4 years ago 2
What's Blade Runner doing in there, Rutger Hauer made the monologue up himself, not a writer.
Rebelspike 4 years ago
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If the writers want a fair salary then they should ask for it when they are hired. Not bitch afterwards. Also, please writers, give up your salary when there is a loss in profits. Oh yeah....thats never going to happen. Please go produce if you want a profit.
grantclooney 4 years ago
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Grant I couldn't agree more. The working writers make a ton of cash. I walk past their offices and see the $100K cars lined up like slices of cheese. Writers should be fined their residuals when they write crappy shows that last 2 episodes like Viva Laughin.
hdtvcamera1 4 years ago
It's not like a bad show will get them much in the way of residuals anyway. And if people do buy it, that's capitalism.
Besides, directors, producers, actors, and a bunch of other people can contribute to the success or failure of a show or movie. It's not just the writers.
Paradox244 4 years ago
pretty much yeah.
enseisthyn 4 years ago
"My Sled!"
Hah!!! Brilliant.
RegicidalManiac 4 years ago
im still kinda confused... can someone explain in simple words wat this strike is about?!
peanutbutterjelle 4 years ago
Basically, the writers don't get paid for anything that they created which is on the Internet (iTunes or streaming video on network websites), and they get paid dirt for all those DVDs that are selling with their work in them.
tomakalinus 4 years ago 3
i see...
thanks :D
peanutbutterjelle 4 years ago 3
Watch youtube's "Why We Fight"
RynnJacobs 4 years ago
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There are plenty of writers out there that are good but aren't in the union so their never going to get the chance. So we have to put up with re-make after re-make bullshit. If the writers want more money they should have asked for it when they took the job. How about this. When a studio looses money let the writers take the loss as well!!
grantclooney 4 years ago
Sure, as long as they also share the profits. Ah, well then... no more multi-million dollar yearly compensation to CEOs like NBC's Ben Silverman.. even as his network is losing money.
RynnJacobs 4 years ago 2
Ben Silverman works damn hard to maintain a company that employs thousands. Is he supposed to work for nothing? You sound like one of those conspiracy theorists wailing about who really controls Hollywood. Grow up.
bumpyjjeans 4 years ago
Your issue with the quality of the content is not just the writers... But it is irreverent to the issue. The WGA has no control over who gets hired to write, it just wants to make sure that who ever does get hired to write the show or movie gets paid a fair amount based on the profit that is earned. That's all.
PConX 4 years ago 5
lol My Sled!
Qtyled 4 years ago
ROTFL!! Brilliant! :)
tomakalinus 4 years ago
We all know who stars in our favorite movies. We know who directs them, who produced them... do we even know what a producer DOES? We've lost appreciation for the art and the craft that is writing. They deserve more than what they're getting; without them, TV shows and movies have ground to a halt in mid-production.
mardiggan 4 years ago 5
Well said, very well said.
folkrockergrrrl 4 years ago
MY SLED!
Holy Christ I could not stop laughing. Thank you for this.
improvalliance 4 years ago 3
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We'd survive. Theres other things to do other than watch TV all day it's just a luxury
DrLsw 4 years ago
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A nice luxury :(. Seriously though the only loss there would be is good TV shows for a few years and a loss of jobs. And the people who went on strike couldn't complain
DrLsw 4 years ago
I agree. WRITER BOI on youtube is hilarious!
RynnJacobs 4 years ago
Well said! Go Writers!
check out a funny rap about it called Writer Boi on Youtube
aviva4boys 4 years ago 3
"My sled!" Hahahahaaaa...
Too classic, I agree ChocolateCoveredFilm. Power to the Writers!
Pirate7X 4 years ago
*Shudder* What an awful place.
tylerissexybeast 4 years ago
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Fire them all. I don't sympathize with the striking writers. They do not accurately represent or portray America.
They utilize stereotypes as their main stock and trade, and pat each other on the back for their "cleverness". I'm not buying it.
If you ever wondered why 90 percent of television is mindless drivel, look no further than the writers.
Brilliantbeing 4 years ago
You know how many times people got that line from Scarface wrong? Its "I'm not a #$^#$ worm like you, look at you now!" NOT "look what you made me do" or the scene in Bad Santa in the dressing room, its a week not a month. (watch the clips, you'll know what I mean) wow, we really do need writers, NOT!
CmptrWhz41 4 years ago
Great video. "My sled!" LOL
Good luck writers!
ChocolateCoveredFilm 4 years ago
That is a quality, and funny video!
wolvojay 4 years ago
this was excellent.
punkerme63 4 years ago
On You Tube, I've been seeing the incredible writing of Rod Serling, without which there would be NO Twilight Zone at all.
Can you imagine having to actually talk to
your family during Thanksgiving?
Now you can see how writers actually contribute to our culture.
powergirl901 4 years ago
What are you talking about? People stare at the football game with their mouths hanging open on Thanksgiving.
mardiggan 4 years ago
That would be it. lol. i guess all we'll watch is football and basketball all day. HOW FUN!
jmonie02 4 years ago 2
That's assuming that the actors follow the text. signed:
Mr.Painfully slow-writing wrist.
powergirl901 4 years ago
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Stay on strike - We don't need the Hollywood's good 'ol boys club - I hope the union falls apart and some talented people are hired to do your jobs! Why don't you try actually getting a job based on MERIT instead of relying on a union to negotiate everything for you?
andycomputerguy 4 years ago
Because the talented people...
ARE ON THE UNION!!!
(note the great movies on this video.)
I know I'm gonna get marked down for this, but...
Cheshrin 4 years ago 5
Seriously. Don't tell me most people can write, that it's easy. Most people can't even talk properly, or write a sentence without using 'ur' and '2day.' This video is completely dead-on.
mardiggan 4 years ago 4
*nods wisely*
Too much I.M. talk. Every time I read fan fiction...
"Your stupid!" My stupid what...?
Cheshrin 4 years ago
I think your problem started with the "fan fiction" part of that sentence.
If fan fiction were any good, we wouldn't need TV!!!
folkrockergrrrl 4 years ago 2
I coulda been a really, really good boxer!
lol :)
linuxsharkey 4 years ago
LOL! My sled!
Scifi8luv 4 years ago
Well, I think there's a difference between creative work and technical work. Intellectual Property and Copyright laws are there to protect the creative work, and does not apply to technical work. The writers asking for residue from internet sales are like authors asking for royalty on books printed online or transferred to audible formats. The recording studios or web programmers don't.
vqly 4 years ago
What about a world without the camera department? The sound department? The grips, electrics, wardrobe, hair, makeup, script supervisor, art department, props, editors? The rest of the crew? I guess only writers can make a movie, that's why the rest of us are now out of work due to the strike.
fuzzimonsta 4 years ago
I'm sorry that the writers are causing so much problems...
I'm might not know that much, but I think that the writers have a right to be angry, but they're taking out their anger in the wrong sort of fashion...
Cheshrin 4 years ago
Oh, for God's sake! No one ever said that the writers were more important than everyone else involved. The writers just decided that they didn't enjoy getting royally fucked.
animeangelash 4 years ago 4
"Rosebud" was a reference to his sled?
Now I just need someone to explain Mulholland Drive to me.
alexhiggins80 4 years ago 2
How could you not get that? Did you watch Citizen Kane all the way to the end?
Mulholland Drive is by David Lynch, and it has lesbians. What other explanation do you need?
ProudAnselmo 4 years ago 2
I was kidding about Rosebud.
Thanks for explaining Mulholland Drive though!
alexhiggins80 4 years ago 2
"Rosebud" was also the nickname WR Hearst reportedly gave to his mistress' anatomy. When he saw it used in this film he was angry and that's supposedly one reason he tried to destroy Welles.
BlargyBlue 4 years ago
her "anatomy"? - we're all adults here, why not refer to that part of her body by it's proper scientific name: "Rosebud" referred to her euphemism_
angrylambie 4 years ago
MY SLED!!!!
OtisWild 4 years ago 2
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Yes, what would we do without classics such as Alone in the Dark, Charlie's Angels, or Norbit? Thanks, writers!
ianvisser 4 years ago
At yet, such "classics" are still better than the reality shows that, for some reason, started popping up quite a bit recently. Imagine that.
animeangelash 4 years ago 5
Writers,REPRESENT!!!
Weathergrl17 4 years ago
"Whatever, Scarlett"
Lmao, I love you guys. GO WGA!
carlmeisterUK 4 years ago 2
"It could be Lupus."
"Yes, I suppose it is."
"Glad we got that taken care of."
LarsnStuff 4 years ago 2
Support you guys 100%.
LarsnStuff 4 years ago 3
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This is what happens when writers make movies.
floatby 4 years ago
HAHA! ROFL!
(I'm not a writer)
Go writers....Take it all the way.
BlargyBlue 4 years ago
Actually my favorites are APOCALYPSE NOW and NETWORK. Too funny.
kcorth1 4 years ago
Yeah, there are a few that didn't quite land for me, but the zingers (like the big CITIZEN KANE finish) made it worth it!
kcorth1 4 years ago 2
"I see ghosts."
raleighwhittierhayes 4 years ago
Great job! BLADE RUNNER and CITIZEN CANE slayed me. Go WGA!!!
digitalseas 4 years ago
"MY SLED!" LOL Brilliant! I am an aspiring to be a writer one day. 3 Cheers for WGA!
PhilosopherSocrates 4 years ago 2
GO WGA!
richardcameron 4 years ago 2
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Susie Essman does her own dialog on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
clevelandphil 4 years ago
"Put that in your pipe and smoke it!" was written by a writer Charles Dickens. So Susie may be a genius but you need writers my friend.
gchaed 4 years ago 6
"It's those lousy writers! They make me mad as a... yak in heat!"
rockdontrun 4 years ago
haha, very cool
"my sled!"
pifox 4 years ago 2
roflmao
Priceless.
redcollargedeon 4 years ago
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the blade runner line was adlibbed by rutger hauser, same with alot of the other lines in this
wanderinghobo77 4 years ago
see down thread. Rutger Hauer only ad-libbed the 'tears in the rain' part, which isn't referenced here. What other lines were ad-libbed?
AWorldWithoutWriters 4 years ago
"we're going to need a bigger boat" was ad-libbed. But even improve is inspired by good characters being played by good actors that are fleshed out with other lines written by good writers. Even if it was based off of a book (which Jaws was) you still need a writer to adapt that book. Adaptation, trust me I've tried, is very hard.
brianjwalton 4 years ago
Guess the movie of these great one liners : -My motherfaka is so cool, when he goes to bed, sheeps count him... -Never mess with mother nature, mother in laws and motherfreaking ukrainians... -This is the nineties, you just don't go around punching people, you gotta say something cool first...-I once asked a literary agent what kind of writing paid the most he said Ransom Notes... -we're on a deserted island, picking up diamonds in case we ever get picked up...
axiomattic 4 years ago
Heist, The Italian Job, The Last Boy Scout, Get Shorty, and Se7en
spyderwebby 4 years ago
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Most of the most famous lines in film, ironically enough, were ad-libbed.
Way to go writers.
golanalive 4 years ago
TRY ADLIBBING A WHOLE MOVIE YOU IDIOT !
axiomattic 4 years ago 2
Okay, I'll try that. As many have before me. As many still do. And often they make the best movies and television shows.
I made my living as a writer for about a decade, by the way.
And I commend you on your witty writing as well - going for the original retort with "idiot" was inspired.
golanalive 4 years ago
Im not trying to have witty writing, I'm trying to insult you. Maybe you don't know what speaking is and always wrote yourself lines instead of interacting, but this is how people sound when they are not fakes.
But why do you diss the writers if you were one yourself? Was it a decade of misery and peanut butter?
axiomattic 4 years ago
a) glad you jumped right to insulting me. much like raising one's voice, it is a sure sign that someone is wrong.
b) not "dissing" anyone - i just know that a writer is one cog in the machine that makes a movie work.
golanalive 4 years ago
and please enlighten me! What is the biggest adlibbed cinema masterpiece of all time? I agree it can be done as an experimental technique and is worth a look as any creative tryout but are they really the best? You gotta know better than this !
axiomattic 4 years ago
I do support the writers, but I had to reply to that: Christopher Guest's mockumentaries (This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, etc.) are improv. Not necessarily the best, but certainly not bad.
raleighwhittierhayes 4 years ago
Actors who can do improv well are rare. Also the outlines for Guest films were WRITTEN.
Some of you are missing the point. It is a much poorer world without writers' contributions, but the studios don't want to pay what that contribution is worth.
BlargyBlue 4 years ago
MY SLED.... LOL!!!!
TheFifthBeatle06 4 years ago
Without the writers, there is no Hollywood. No sitcoms, no dramas, no movies. Just documentaries and reality shows. blech. And good writers give us great memories. And they should be well compensated for that.
maxinemovies 4 years ago
LOVE IT!
ImperfectUtopia 4 years ago
I can't believe they gave up "Rose Bud" bring the writers back you greedy bastards!!!
Awesome Video!!!
Akaiva 4 years ago
My Sled and whatever Scarlett were the funniest.
dawatcher62 4 years ago
My sled... brilliant!
meyster7 4 years ago
Roy's line in Jaws was ad libbed.
travisbicklejr 4 years ago
All right...my sled made me laugh for a minute. Keep up the good work.
But not until you're getting paid it.
banion5 4 years ago
"Hey, Louise, let's drive off the cliff."
pagano60 4 years ago
you forgot to put in transformers,spiderman3, those pirate movies, antthing with keanu reeves, the new star wars, everything on t.v. Honestly I was amazed there are any writers in hollywood.
helrod 4 years ago
It's looking at classic movie lines and what if we did not have those writers.
dawatcher62 4 years ago
bad examples for the most part those are based on books.
helrod 4 years ago
oh c'mon
lexislee20 4 years ago
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sorry i get bored with slide shows. and sorry that people think theres good writers in hollywood.
just name a good show on right now
opps you can't if you can by the time you do it'll be a bad show because tv never knows when to quit shows start out good and then they just gooo on &on&on till they can't milk anymore money out of it case in point "the office"(U.S. version).
helrod 4 years ago
No I know where you're coming from. And I love The Office so I guess you can't trust my judgment. :)
lexislee20 4 years ago
Speaking of not knowing when to stop... That's the longest run-on sentence I've seen in a while.
SilverQueen 4 years ago 2
tell me, what is more important
Audi Murphy and what he did or the movie about it?
so without writers we have what?
real life to go with??
wargammer4000 4 years ago
Audi? lol
meyster7 4 years ago
"Yeah, you blend"
SamHarrisCOM 4 years ago
Umm, wasn't that Blade Runner line adlibbed by the actor?
deaddogstwo 4 years ago
Nevermind, I guess it was the "Tears in the Rain" bit that was adlibbed. Nice video.
deaddogstwo 4 years ago
no no, it was the whole monologue that was re-written by Rutger Hauer. There ya go...
maxgnu 4 years ago
I think the original poster completely missed the point, despite his good intentions. Writers create more than witty dialogue or one-liners. These entire _films_ would never have existed without writers. The shark would never have attacked the down, and Evelyn Mulray would never have pointed a gun at anyone because Chinatown would never have existed.
-d-
doogiet 4 years ago
You bring up a good point, but it was Faye Dunaway, not Evelyn Mulray.
lotrfan8 4 years ago
Almost spoiled by how well-written it was. :-) But not quite.
thechaosfairy 4 years ago
Love it. I hired a writer recently, honestly I couldn't believe how little it cost. I guess you can buy Fair Trade coffee, but not Fair Trade copy.
YourTeacherLE 4 years ago 2
"Nope. Nobody's sleeping with anybody they shouldn't as far as I know"
...Isn't that an improvement from the usual writing on Grey's Anatomy?
strider3005 4 years ago 3
"There were these space ships, and they were, like, on fire and stuff" Eloquent!
blomjenny 4 years ago 7
I know it's not really the point...but some of these were really funny. I would've loved to have seen some of these actually get used. Anyway, I do sympathise with the writers. Although I'm dreading what TV will look like in a few months if this goes on too long.
akasha5 4 years ago
"Whatever, Scarlett"
I practically laughed my ass off.
Go WGA!
GizzyBee 4 years ago 4
As some poster said before me, technically speaking, every one who took part in the project deserves compensation. Think about all the successful special effects movies where the scripts sucked. Writers get some cents every time someone buys that DVD to show off his new TV or surround system. The SFX team, Sound team and so on get nothing.
saintofallkillers 4 years ago
"Whatever, Scarlett" and "My Sled" were the best ones. I giggled quite a bit.
I support the WGA. Fie on the AMPTP!
wickednellie 4 years ago
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I'm striking at Prospect - I'm going to forward this to everyone I know!
countiblis 4 years ago
My Sled!
HypnoPro 4 years ago
I totally think that the writers should get the money they deserve, but why doesn't someone else just come up with something? I mean it's probably more difficult than it seems to write for a show but everyone is acting like the writers are the only ones who know how to write something. Maybe it's a legality thing...
piercedicequeen 4 years ago
Writers write; actors act; etc. The difference between a pro and an amateur can be witnessed easily here on Youtube.
And most of the pros -- even those not in the WGA -- do not want to blacken their good names by crossing the picket line, which would also run counter to the efforts of all writers to demand reasonable payment for their work.
thechaosfairy 4 years ago
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"all writers to demand reasonable payment for their work."
All writers are already getting paid whatever they are worth to the people paying them. They aren't fighting for better wages, they are fighting for residuals from sales in new media platforms. Why should EVERY writer be automatically due residuals for anything they write?
ckn4 4 years ago
Dude, residuals are a form of deferred payment that recognize the fact that a movie or TV show is not monetized immediately, but creates a revenue stream. The alternative to residuals is not no residuals, it's more money up front.
And to answer your question, the answer to 'why' is 'because we won't work for you if we don't get them'.
AWorldWithoutWriters 4 years ago
It's actually surprisingly difficult to write believable dialog. This is what many writers struggle with the most.
jsigns42 4 years ago
I meant that as a reply to another poster... I don't know why it showed up at the top...
jsigns42 4 years ago
I'd like to see a bunch of lazy actors improvise an entire 7 year arc of something like "West Wing"
Right, I didn't think so.
powergirl901 4 years ago
Brilliant.
blondychik1 4 years ago
From what I understand, the gist of the new labor agreement has to do with the internet and how writers will get paid for say each copy of CSI downloaded from Apple's iTunes. Right now the writers don't get squat which is not really right. I think they are getting shafted and I kind of feel for them. They are also getting shafted on DVD's since they only get .04 cents for each $20 DVD sold. They want .08 cents which sounds reasonable.
mahadragon 4 years ago
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Stay out on strike you bums!! If you had any talent you would write a novel not 22 minutes of drivel. Take your Ugly Betty and Lost and Heroes and stick them up your slacker ass!
kpm1001 4 years ago
Don't worry, we're all writing our novels and spec screenplays, editing our documentaries, working on our pitches and so on. Do you know how much EASIER it is to sell a novel than a feature pitch or a sitcom? I guess not. Anyway, we'll be here creating value for ourselves while you're sitting on your ass watching SURVIVOR reruns. Enjoy, sucker.
AWorldWithoutWriters 4 years ago
You asshole. You fricking prick. If you don't like a show, don't watch it! But do NOT belittle these writers for fighting for a just wage that is rightfully theirs. Do you know how much work it takes to write a script? Maybe you think they're rolling in dough--They're not, ESPECIALLY if they're not staff writers. Or you think what they do is unimportant--That's your right, but they still deserve to get paid. Or maybe you're just an asshole. I'll go with that one. Stick THAT up your slacker ass!
pianopinay29 4 years ago 3
Pianopinay29, has just demonstrated his ability to write great dialog. If a character in his script said it, it would sound like real speech. Put "Stick that up your stacker.." with the great lines in movie history. Even if you say he's wrong, you can see his writing talent.
000266617 4 years ago
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I believe you meant assES. Plural. Nimrod. Singular. You.
Slacker Screenwriter
criscalls 4 years ago
I love this. I'm particularly fond of the rewritten Gone With The Wind line. Rock on, writers!
SonoUnPoeta 4 years ago
LOL that bladerunner thing was improvised by rutger hauer so writers had nothing to do with that OWNED
KirbyButton 4 years ago
The lines about attack ships on fire and the C-Beams glittering were written, not improvised. Rutger Hauer says:
"Everyone always writes about me and that speech, and ignores the screenwriter. I thought David Peoples... really did a beautiful job... I loved those images he came up with -'c-beams glittering near the Tannhauser gate, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion'. I thought they were really interesting, even if you didn't understand them."
OWNED indeed.
AWorldWithoutWriters 4 years ago
Yes. The opening of the speech was, of course, written by Peoples. However, the final line of that soliloquy, "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain" were improvised by Hauer. Clearly the striking writers should make sure, under any new agreement, that key scenes improvised by actors are duly compensated.
ckn4 4 years ago 3
Fancher and Peoples wrote:
I've seen things... (long pause) seen things you little people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium... I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. (pause) all those moments... they'll be gone.
Hauer essentially came up with the "tears in rain" bit, but thats about it...
Oxryly 4 years ago
Still...both these two professional deserve their due. Both deserve compensation for the parts they played in bringing this iconic scene into being. The lines are nothing without someone to speak them and someone with nothing to say is far from iconic.
TatsuOyama 4 years ago
"Still...both these two professional deserve their due"
True. And so do the Art Directors who TRULY made Blade Runner a film worth seeing. Not to mention Jordan Cronenweth's cinematography that allows us to watch Hauer deliver this line. Oh, and... of course, without the sound department we never would have heard this line anyway! So I guess every single person who worked on this movie is due residuals from any sales of this title in any new media market.
ckn4 4 years ago
"Hauer essentially came up with the "tears in rain" bit, but thats about it..."
Yes. I just said that, did I not? And are you trying to discount the power of the closing line? To me, THAT'S the line that sells the scene, and to an extent, the film. If Joe Mantell had improvised "Forget Jake, it's Chinatown" would you say "that's about it" about his contribution?
ckn4 4 years ago
See, choosing a writer is as important as choosing a president.
mrsnart 4 years ago
there wont be any entertainment whatsoever, writers are the heart of any entertainment venue
Tallacus 4 years ago