Screenwriting : Deconstructing the hero...the hero's journey... by Curt Samlaska

An excellent essay on yet another dying industry. From a personal standpoint, I absolutely ADORE the movie-going experience. I live 1.8 miles from a Regal Theater that offers 22 screens. The number of films I've seen in theaters this year? 4. Thank God for THE HOLDOVERS, which will soon up the ante to a pathetic 5 films.

Did I happen to mention that I ADORE the movie-going experience?

... All true, but what now?!!

Ty, I really enjoyed the presentation and the review of cinema. The references to the hero's journey as documented by Joseph Campbell I found really interesting. In reference to Dan's comments, you can't predict the future of cinema and, unfortunately for us lately, we have to see what the producers and studios put out there for us to experience. I love movies like Good Will Hunting and one of my favorites is Shawshank Redemption...masterful works...even though many of these movies don't generate a lot of revenue on release. The dialogue in these features is amazing. "Get busy living...or get busy dying."

I'm hoping that this will once again result in the promotion of independent film, and the production of these more low budget and medium budget films. The technology has progressed to the point of amazement! For motivated creatives it is truly amazing what you can do on your own now with the use of software and even the equipment, which is very affordable! Look at what they did with The Creator, which was shot on a Sony FX3 camera that cost around $4,000.00.

I am going to produce my short film, Forgiving Retribution, here in Las Vegas this next year. I'm going to use an FX3 with anamorphic lenses. I'm already getting a crew together and I already have actors involved. My son and my cousin (Ty Marcus who shot my short The Warting Dead) will be involved. I want the final product to be cinematic... I am willing to invest in this project and will be looking for distribution as well as entering it in many short film contests. I think it is our time. Let's do it...

Sad to see this crash and burn Curt Samlaska

Agree with Dan Max.

Recently I saw a movie trailer completely AI generated (and we're talking "live action" here, not animation)...maybe studios venture into this kinda filmmaking... it appears quite efficient for a CGI galore Sci-Fi and superhero genres...costs will be reduced greatly...and so called "creative differences"

These YouTube experts use the same medium and have all this knowledge, but manage to be just as boring as the movies they complain about.

I'd love to see a move towards cost-effective productions of scifi, or high concept movie but with rich, meaningful dialogue and real character development. I haven't seen "The Creator" yet but from what I hear, that fits the bill. This is the kind of writing I'm aiming for.

If women had such super power hero potential, they wouldn't be justifiably bitching about men who believe they're women competing against them in various sports.

Very interesting video, Curt Samlaska. I used to love going to the movie theater for the total immersion experience. Now, I rarely go. I find over-the-top Dolby, extreme CGI, and fundamental blockbuster formats to be soul-numbing. Though the video cites older films, I think it's still true that blockbusters make profits often because of huge marketing/promo budgets.

Oh, hey, look at that. Once again, the preview image of 'What's wrong...' features women. As if women are the 'problem' somehow and the YouTube person is trying to appeal to a bunch of dude bros.

This could be renamed “lets a cursory look at something”. The analysis is as deep as a teaspoon. The only evidence that was presented was a single study nearly twenty years ago. I fall back on “any argument made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence”. I award this film a Blah blah blah.