But where is the scriptwriter?

Newly arrived person of the movies of seeing The Spirit, I read in an article of Carlos Rehermann in the Henciclopedia the following thing:

Why do the businessmen get into debt in producing systematically bad scripts?

For Mamet, the key is in the production mechanisms, in particular in the way of selection of the scripts.

It supports that the big studies are hired by specializing readership of script, who live usually terrified before the idea of recommending something that then does not work. Used by the executives like filters, the readership there are the foible of the system; they have an excessive responsibility, and the professional scriptwriters know it. The scripts that they read, therefore, are written for professional readership, and not to do movies, because his function is not that of serving as guide for the achievement, but that of convincing the reader that this script does not put in risk his work.

Perhaps what writer David Mamet says is the cause of which there is already no way of seeing a movie with good script, especially, if it belongs to the genre of action, adventures, superheroes, etc. Although neither if it is a question of a drama or comedy. I am full with seeing movies that do not count anything, that lack a narrative thread, movies in which the personages go and come without the spectator knowing the porqué.

I do not say since the personages are flat, that they do not have any psychological depth, but sometimes - how in case of Spirit - they do not even have a target, fundamental element to start the narrative action. Only they run and jump and fight and go off and fight with knives, in a ludicrous streetwalker only interrupted by dialogues and up to monologues lacking in sense, and after more than hour and a half, when one already begins thinking that the nightmare might get longer indefinitely, one is grateful that the director has decided to finish the movie.

The story has been replaced with the action and the esthetics. Everything opposite of what Will Eisner would have wanted that they were doing with his most famous personage.

Category: Movies, Cómic