Comments on: Academy Award-Nominated Screenwriter’s Unexpected Right Turn

By: Frankie

Frankie — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:17:04 +0000

Talent is talent regardless of your race, religion or political views. A great original idea comes from imagination and the ability to articulate that imagination. R.R.&P doesn’t have anything to do with the imagination and doesn’t determine talent. Executive Producers(those with the money) need to look at the quality of the script and not even think about who wrote it. Only a very small percentage of people who buy tickets to see a movie pay attention to who wrote the script, they only care about the content of the story (script) and some care, also, who is acting in the movie. If a producer refuses to support a great script because their R.R. & P are different than the writer’s, then that producer is a pig bigot and worse than the person they believe is “politically incorrect” who wrote the script.

By: Alan Smithereens

Alan Smithereens — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:59:26 +0000

Updated Crichton link:

http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speech-environmentalismaseligion.html

By: Alan Smithereens

Alan Smithereens — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:47:08 +0000

Mr. Simon’s thesis puts him in very good company, indeed:

“The anguish of the apostate comes from within, as well as from the condemnation of his former comrades. Those who lose their faith but continue the outward observances, or who quietly withdraw if they can, are likewise testimony to the power of visions and the pain of change. The terms in which such changes of social vision are discussed — conversion, apostasy, heresy — are borrowed from religious history, though they apply equally to secular creeds which evoke similar emotional commitments.” — Thomas Sowell, “A Conflict of Visions” pg. 100

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“Today it is said we live in a secular society in which many people—the best people, the most enlightened people—do not believe in any religion. But I think that you cannot eliminate religion from the psyche of mankind. If you suppress it in one form, it merely re-emerges in another form. You can not believe in God, but you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.” — Michael Crichton, 9/15/03

http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speeches/speeches_quote05.html

By: nitpicker

nitpicker — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:18:14 +0000

Yes, Hollywood weeps for the loss of Simon’s crack writing skills. After all, it’s not just anyone who can write a movie like “Scenes from a Mall.” Oh, wait…I suppose anyone could.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:39:22 +0000

Terry hit the nail on the head.

By: CWC55

CWC55 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:00:50 +0000

Terry isn’t a liberal troll.

Terry is a neo-Nazi troll.

By: Vince R

Vince R — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:59:23 +0000

quote:”chan – January 7th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Conservatives have become the biggest whiners on the planet. They sound more and more like self involved children. Quite crying and do great work.
”

We learn from whiney, self involved children libs like you. It seems to served you well.

By: G.G.

G.G. — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:53:39 +0000

Gee, a lot of antisemetic remarks on here.

By: chan

chan — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:07:14 +0000

Conservatives have become the biggest whiners on the planet. They sound more and more like self involved children. Quite crying and do great work.

Mamet was always a hack.

By: gabriel

gabriel — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:12:13 +0000

What’s with all the jew-haters commenting on this?

In 2000, the Palestinians rejected Israel’s offer of complete withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza. A few years later Israel left Gaza, and the Palestinians responded by launching thousands of rockets and sending suicide bombers into Israel. Fact.

Hamas has recently proposed bringing crucifixions back. Fact.

Yet some of you still have a problem determining who the bad guys are?

hint: it’s not Israel.