Duke Zelig

writer — verbal adventurer — collector of bungled moments.

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L'Homme à tête de chou.

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@TheCinesthetic I had a professor at NYU who told us not to bother with Amelie, saying that it had no plot. I actually trusted him at first until a girl I was dating told me that I would love it.

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@ActwithAlison Rather than chaining them to the back’s of cars/busses/trains? Rocket fuel?

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I appreciate your dedication to the project, but I think it’s fucked up. Not what you did, but what your crew did. I had a crew manager try and drag Union rules in on me once, and I just replaced her. I’m all for paying a fair wage, but if it’s more about status than the project, then why would I want these people a part of this thing I’m making. I don’t understand why so many people who aren’t in love with film put themselves through the hassle of it. If you just want to make a living, there are easier ways. I appreciate how you handled it, but I likely wouldn’t have been able to do the same in which case they would’ve crushed me. And I would’ve taken that personally.

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@JosephKahn Same as the original Amazing Stories? Tales from the Dark Side? Outer Limits? Or is Black Mirror of a particular quality? I haven't seen it, but I've seen all the others.

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@localsweety What’s crazy is how everyone on the socials thinks that their take is the one and only valid take. Imagine if you were actually wrong about everything. It would be a sad world. I liked Obsession, but I didn’t love it.

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@ActwithAlison I used to hate Mondays, just like Garfield. But that’s when I worked in an office. Now I kind of hate Sundays, because everyone disappears, and I feel like I’m in an apocalyptic hellscape.

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Automatically, it’s very similar to Close Encounters, it’s weird to me that nobody is calling that out. My mother actually did, which surprised me, but no one else because people love Close Encounters. Stylistically they’re both very different. But he dropped his original whimsy style a long time ago.

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It's a shame. Even though I consider myself more of a writer these days, I still manage to watch a minimum of 2 movies day. Granted, I have no family, or life outside of my career. Today was Disclosure Day, and later, when I go to bed, I'm watching Inferno from Argento. Yesterday was Hi Mom and Career Opportunities. The day before that, Hardcore and American Gigolo. As for AI, it completely negates the purpose of cinema for me.

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@ActwithAlison me SOUP

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Let us explain; a finish film is a piece of property. Such, if I were to make a painting, once done, the painting would be an object. Now, imagine I were to sell the painting/object to you for 500 dollars. And then imagine even further that you were to take that thing, the painting I created, and sell it for ten million. Do you think that you should turn around and give me a percentage of that 10 million, because that would be your choice. It would be a stupid, but it would be up to you. Now I get it, I'm just one person, and so on and so forth. Let's say I build a house, and in doing so I hire a landscape artist. I pay the landscape artist a fair wage, and then I sell the house for 500k dollars. Now, the person who buys the house from me markets the hell out of it, then resells it for 10 million. Do you think anyone owes money to the landscape artist? The Original Architect made 500k, but only after paying to have the house made in the first place. So who would owe a percentage to the landcape artist?

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@BootsRiley You assume that everyone lives 10-15 minutes to see Boosters. I had to drive 30 minutes, myself, and I drove over an hour last year to see Dust Bunny.

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@TheCinesthetic

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@BadMoodMorgado It's neither unfair or unlucky. It's an oppertunity to put the film on your resume and up your rate. Jesus, everyone is so eagerly pessimistic.

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Yes, granted, my creator, Dr. Visqualian loved me in his own demented way, but he is a clear lunatic who used me as a point of pride. For the first year of my life, he had me doing Vaudeville shows, and traveling cranivals, with other such miraculous oddities.

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My father, who was a successful producer, in both film and theater, used to say, once an Extra, always an extra. I don't fully agree, my father was a cold man, but the unions and the industry do their best to make my father's remark a reality. We should be making it easier to build a career, not loading more weight onto the aplicant at every turn.

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From personal experience, I would say that it’s a bit of both. I had the same concerns you are having, so I posted some poor writing from a different author, and it did point out the problems however it did it in a supportive way if that makes sense. I posted the same piece of writing on three different AI models., and got surprisingly similar responses. I think this is really fucking tricky, but the AI is probably largely correct about your writing.

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@spqr_sulla That’s not a flaw, it’s a fucking preference. And I don’t agree.

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@JosephKahn I could list you 10 objectively awful films that I adore, I don’t need to pretend that the films are somehow magically good because I like them. I appreciate the fact that I enjoy them because they’re better. Sometimes great films are fucking boring.

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@JosephKahn I meant to say that the chair was unusable. You could still adore that chair. But if you can’t sit in it, then it’s not a chair.