Shakespeare is Hollywood's most-produced writer of all time, and yet the fanboy faddists totally dismissed him, as the Wall Street Hedge Funds that support New Line and modern Hollywood detest the classic Truth.
CliffyB always has a lot to say about "story" in video games, but he never references Shakespeare, Homer, Ovid, or Dostoevsky. Instead he references himself and Gears of War, which has no story, but for a fanboy story--the same kind of story dfound in a theme park ride, liek Pirates of the Caribbean.
Even when Hollywood produces classics, they totally screw them up, and they make them look like little feminized fanboy fantasies.
I'm fed up with the idiots, the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and those who green light them. I don't say they're all idiots - I'm just saying there's a lot of them. –Sir Sean Connery, 007
(John Milius) subsided for a moment and then resumed, somewhat mysteriously at first. "Homer," he pronounced. "Homer. Can you believe what those assholes did to him with that film Troy? Completely embarrassing. Me and my kid, we wanted to take a DVD of the thing, tie it by a cable to our car's bumper, and drag it up and down Hollywood boulevard." He fell silent for a moment. "Hollywood... The only thing I can think of remotely as horrible as war; there are stories, things I have seen in that town that, believe me, I would never tell anyone." –Valkyries Over Iraq, The Trouble with War Movies, by Lawrnece Weshler, interviewing John Milius in November 2005 Harpers Magazine, academy-award nominated writer of Apocalypse Now, Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, and
Electronic Arts' video game Medal of Honor.
In order for their dumbed-down hype to succeed, Wyckyg and Cliffyb have to make damned sure that true artists, directors, and producers, with deep, profound, epic souls are exiled.
Neither WyckyG nor CliffyB are storytellers in the classic sense--like Sergio Leone and Shakespeare. Like John Ford and John Wayne.
They are not philosophers, like Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle.
They are not poets, like Dante and Homer.
Cliffyb is a video game producer, and Wyckyg is a classic case of the Hollywood hack/ambulance-chasing producer.
I think it's awesome that when it came to "adapting" gears of war, they chose Beattie, whose claim to fame is adapting a theme park ride.
No wonder they can't find a director. A director can't base his career on Cliffyb and Wyckyg driving up and down Sunset in their fanboy ferraris/lambroginis/mini-vans screaming, GEARS OF WAR IS A CLASSIC EPIC MOVIE LIKE LORD OF THE RINGS AND 300!!!
Get a friggin clue.
Lord of The Rings and 300 were classic epic stories, born by men with Honor in their souls.
As Wyckyg and Cliffyg prefer hype and deceit over honor, they have not the art in their souls to create epic, enduring art.
And thus vast opportunities exist in Hollywood.
But beware--the CliffyG WyckB StuartyB MATRIX will come after you and try to destroy you with their fanboy fulisades of fictional hype.
But as V said,
[after a hail of gunfire doesn't stop V]
Creedy: Die! Die! Why won't you die?... Why won't you die?
V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. --V IS FOR VENDETTA
I have no idea why Cliffyb optioned GOW to a Hollywood producer with a 28% rotten tomato rating. But then again, I have no idea why a Hollywood producer paid all that Wall Street cash to option GOW.
But then you realize that the government/Wall Street prints money, and so it is that Hollywood hype/CliffyB hype/government hype/Wall Street hype all serve the same bottom line, as art, story, the family, culture, academia, and Truth are left to die.
Aristotle wrote, "when tsorytelling declines, the result is decadence."
Look closely, and you will see that cliffyb/wyckyg/wall street profit immensely in the short term via decadence.
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