Whats your movie industry dream job?!

OF COURSE 99% of us say movie star. I think if measuring imagination were possible, movie star would be top the list of "Most Visited Daydream Jobs".

Id like to write screenplays, but know the original work would be butchered unrecognizable by filmings end. They change scripts when filming constantly.

Then theres the director. Nice to be in control, and if youre a vast storyteller beyond pen n page, director would be the gig to take. Lots and lots of pressure being a director, but if you have talent its not like you couldnt overtake Michael Bay ZING!

The producer. The big boy. The boss. Gonna borrow a lil from Chris Rock here, but if Harvey Weinstein woke up with Tom Hanks money he would kill himself.

Then theres the all in one person. Woody Allen, Martin Scorcese, Robert Redford, and so on.

Me?! Id want to be a movie star, and write screenplays. Yeah just typical, but it would be the most fun.

Cinematographer. I want to be a cinematographer.

I'd love to work for someone like the Skotak Brothers (Robert and Dennis) or Alec Gillis/Tom Woodruff Jr... Stan Winston Studios kinda jobs... Rob Botin was another.


Miniatures, animatronics, puppetry, matt painting, specialist costumes (Alien, Predator, Tremors full sized animatronics), basically specialised practical effects.

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Writer-Director.

Putting my own ideas on the silver screen is the dream!

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Director.

Critic

I have never been a fan of being an actor within the Hollywood environment. I would much rather be a writer simply because it seems that writers have more control, actors turn up, do what they are told and leave but I am more interested in the background. Also I think writers are more likely to be remembered because there being so many actors in a film but very few writers - unless it is a truly awful film with more than two writers in which case they deserve everything they get.

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Writers have the least control

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Writers have complete control of their scripts... until they show them to someone. Once they've sold them, they have no control at all.

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If writers had any control at all, The Raid wouldn't have been made.

You may be right but without scripts and writing no films would get made to begin with right? Well, aside from Michael Bay - scripts clearly are not written when he makes a film

Critic no doubt !

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I agree. I think writers and editors are as important as the director and, after watching Casting By, there's a good argument for the importance of the casting agent, too. Certainly as much as any bog standard director, anyway.

I'd say writers are far less likely to be remembered than actors, since it's the actors that people actually see on the screen.

It's also not really accurate to say that actors "turn up, do what they're told, and leave." Actors often put a considerable amount of their own input into a role and some of the best moments in film are unscripted and were improvised by the actors on set.

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Anyone who doesn't say director is on the wrong forum

Note: Not to be taken literally before everyone starts going crazy

To be honest that was somewhat meant with tongue in cheek but I understand how it may seem a bit condescending towards actors - though some are so wooden I would still stand by it - however and maybe it is just me but writers simply mean more to me.

As an example with Star Wars coming up for some fans if you said the name "Hayden Christensen" even to this day a lot of fans would say "oh you mean that guy who played Anakin and almost ruined the Star Wars franchise?", now I will stand up for him and say he was very good in Shattered Glass but I know very little else by him and yet he has done a lot.

Now if I compared him to say Nick Hornby who is a wonderful writer or Richard Curtis who is generally regarded as one of the finest British writers working there is just no competition.

I don't want to drag this away from the original post but I think the difference in my eyes at least is that if a writer is very good he or she is likely to be remembered but if they do badly they fall off the radar where as if an actor does badly the public and critics are less likely to allow them to forget that they did a bad role.

Hayden Christensen didn't ruin Star Wars.


George Lucas did with his incessant twisting of the legend. Midichlorians? WTF, George?


Anyway, Jake Lloyd ruined Anakin years before Hayden came along.
But, I have no idea what Lucas was thinking of letting either of them into such an important role though tbh.

I don't think that's true. People love a good comeback story. Just look at Matthew McConaughey.