Comments on: Writer’s Guild Strike - “Speechless” Campaign

By: slayer140

slayer140 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:20:17 +0000

This thing is just getting annoying. They get paid lots of money and get their names known around the world, if they work on big titles. It’s just like any other proffession you must work to gain more money and fame. Not go on strike to say you feel left out.

By: john

john — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:10:18 +0000

true every thing starts with the writer.without a write the page is blank

By: the 13th apartament

the 13th apartament — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:58:29 +0000

I’m for the writers although because of their strike I can’t see any more Prison Break or Heroes episodes. But the clip is so funny.

By: Bunkins

Bunkins — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:40:42 +0000

I think the writers strike is the right thing to do. They are very valuable to the industry and should be appreciated more than they are. I am thankful it hasn’t impacted the movie industry yet because my site would be out of business.

By: guywoodhouse

guywoodhouse — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:04:12 +0000

Everything starts with the writer. Without the writer all we have is blank page. Being a writer myself, I fully support the “Speechless” campaign.

By: johnnypeepers

johnnypeepers — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:10:48 +0000

I think the strike is good for our cultural and intellectual landscape. The purveyors of satanic filth no longer have their filthy claws clutched on our children and impressionable minds.

Instead, people will seek out books and go to Church. The Boob-Tube has crippled millions of minds with their sewage and pornography.

By: Elver

Elver — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:05:33 +0000

Yeah, not a big fan of the “speechless” campaign. It doesn’t seem to make a point, it’s just, well, boring.

By the way, JMS (of B5 fame) wrote a revealing piece about the studios’ strategy: clickie

By: taylortaylortaylor

taylortaylortaylor — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:47:12 +0000

The idea of simple, wordless screen-tests may have been more effective. This particular vignette is a bit vague, but I think our reactions are right to be unsettled and annoyed with the lack of story, wit, arc, etc. Would it be too much to ask for a charmingly written campaign? ha…

taylor

By: Kelly Mahan Jaramillo

Kelly Mahan Jaramillo — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:13:48 +0000

Aditive - I do not think it is supposed to be funny. There is nothing funny about any of this, we are just trying to keep a sense of humor through it all.

Oceallaigh - this particular spot uses terms specific to film writing. From a glance at your page, you seem to like to read. Writers do the writing. This strike may seem like it is speaking only to Hollywood and film and television writers, but there really is a bigger picture.

Having just discovered John Rogers, his site has a link to a man whose name I cannot pull out of my tired hat at this moment, but he has started a very interesting educational and humanitarian site:

http://www.freerice.com

If you would like to see an example of the bigger picture. I hope you go to it. It is also extremely addictive.

Thanks, Pavlov.
Keep fighting the good fight!

Best to all,

KMJ

By: oceallaigh

oceallaigh — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:45:10 +0000

More to the point, I find that it speaks only to the particular choir to which you’re preaching, leaving the rest of us (those, for instance, who have to look up “written on the nose” - which, given the slow pace of the piece, we have plenty of time for) out in the cold. If this is typical of the rest of these spots, I think you have made a better case for Management than for yourselves.