Ryan J Harvey

Nerd, DnD DM, musician, funny guy, writer, actor and filmmaker

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Reminder that King Charles owns all the Sea's in the UK and charges Wind Farms more than £200m a year to rent the worthless sea they stand on.

These charges are added straight on to your bills.

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

Honestly, this is the way it should be done.

Cool series looking at other characters between big cinematic moments.

Marvel are close but they just don’t hit it.

[The Art of The Batman @thebatfilm]

Matt Reeves teases more spin-offs from 'THE BATMAN':

"We’ve got ‘The Batman. We’ve got ‘The Penguin.’ And who knows what’s next."

[Jeff @jeff13145]

Sorry I missed your text, I’ve been busy pushing everyone close to me away and binge watching horrible tv and thinking about how none of this matters. Let’s get lunch soon

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

Inflation hit Nutella hard. 🥲

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

What an absolute read. UK film is on its last legs.

Plenty of films being made at Pinewood, but it’s all just another Hollywood back lot.

[Screen International @Screendaily]

UK indie film is at "crisis" point, according to research from the @britscreenforum

They outline five actions that could turn the industry around: https://t.co/NJ6d0zKwUp

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

I’m sure it’s great. But this is giving off liking your own Facebook post kinda vibes.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Francis Ford Coppola has given his own film ‘MEGALOPOLIS’ a 5-star review on Letterboxd.

Read our ⭐️ review: https://t.co/Nj6LM30E2h

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

I saw this video auto play as an ad on YouTube and I missed the opening titles giving me ZERO context to the rest of it. And it is a bat shit insane advert for boxing.

[TURKI ALALSHIKH @Turki_alalshikh]

Anthony Joshua takes on Daniel Dubois in an epic fight at Riyadh Season Card - Wembley Edition 🥊 🔥

🗓 21 September 2024

Buy now on:

DAZN
https://t.co/emBegGcRDC

Sky Box Office
https://t.co/QSZ7bJ1wHq

TNT Box Office
https://t.co/zkztQL4QO1

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

What the hell is this man? I really do not want to smell what the Rock is cooking.

[Sofia Coppium @indianloonie]

Insane dwayne johnson video please watch until the end

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

These educational spends are useless without the jobs or infrastructure to support people once trained. 🤡

There has been investment in training. There has been support after training. That money is better spent invested in films and programming. The actual work they’ll do.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

A government spokesperson told us they are committed to growing a creative sector with opportunities for all and are investing £115 million pounds in cultural education programmes until 2025.

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

I keep hearing this more and more, and there’s no doubt streaming services could offer live TV streams with scheduled programming. I think user retention will increase too. Tiktok works because it’s a constant stream of video, you flick through like channels.

[James @ScriptsByJames]

I want TV back, man. Like BACK BACK.

I want shows with 15-22 episodes back. I want shows with 6 seasons back.

I want shows with appointment viewing back. I want shows where we get to watch the characters grow. With real arcs. I want theme songs.

I want the TV experience back.

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

This country makes me sick. What’s wrong with you all?

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔵 Oust Sunak or Tories face election massacre, warns former Cabinet ally

A YouGov poll suggests that a new Tory leader could secure a convincing victory over Labour

Read more ⬇️
https://t.co/8u1ZwG8n3s

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

I’ve just finished Good Omens (the book) and I’ve never been so satisfied by a piece of writing like this one it’s left a terrible hole in my heart.

Which Pratchett or Gaiman book should I read next? Suggestions please!

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

This might be one of the most useful pieces of filmmaking advice I have ever read.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

As he was struggling to break into Hollywood, Matt Damon read about how Quentin Tarantino did it:

Essentially, he got a big-name actor (Harvey Keitel) to want to star in Tarantino’s first movie (Reservoir Dogs) then leveraged that to get the movie funded.

“And so,” Damon said,

“We wrote ‘Good Will Hunting’ and that part that Robin [Williams] eventually took—we called it ‘the Harvey Keitel part.’”

“Ben [Affleck] and I wrote the movie specifically because we wanted the parts as actors…But we knew [we needed] a big-name actor who could get us some money because Ben and I were worth nothing.

And so we wrote ‘the Harvey Keitel part’ really open-ended. So we could adjust it: if Morgan Freeman or Denzel Washington wanted to come in and play it—we could make that character from Roxbury [a neighborhood in Boston], and we could explore the historic racial tension in Boston. If Meryl Streep took the part—instead of a father-son relationship, we could make it a mother-son relationship.

So we really left it open-ended because we wanted to cast as wide a net as possible because we were just trying to get the movie made.”

“And then once we got Robin to sign up to do it, that’s really what got us a green light to make it…He changed our lives.”

Takeaway 1:

In one of my favorite talks, "Runnin' Down A Dream," the venture capitalist Bill Gurley explains that while studying the career trajectories of three of his heroes—the restauranteur Danny Meyer, the coach Bobby Knight, and the musician Bob Dylan—he noticed a pattern:

They studied the career trajectories of the icons in their respective industries. Like Damon, they studied how others successfully got their foot in the door then climbed to top of their profession. And then, they took similar steps towards doing the same.

Coincidentally, Tarantino did this too. He made scrap books for each of his favorite filmmakers: Brian De Palma, Howard Hawks, Douglas Sirk, and Martin Scorsese. "I was like a film historian," Tarantino said. "I was obsessed with studying how they did it, the evolution of their careers."

"Greatness isn't random," as Gurley puts it. Instead, it's usually a predictable step along a studied path of strategically modified emulation and, of course, determination.

Takeaway 2:

In the clip above, Damon goes on to explain that, not only did Robin Williams sign on to be in "Good Will Hunting," he also went off script and improvised one of the most iconic lines ("Son of a bitch, he stole my line") in the movie.

It reminded me of something Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull writes in his book, Creativity. Inc.:

"Getting the right people is more important than getting the right idea…If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better."

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“Bob Dylan said, 'I'm a musical expeditionary.' I looked up 'expeditionary'—it's to travel for scientific research or exploration. And that's what Dylan did...For hours upon hours upon hours, he studied what other artists did. He was a mimic. He was studying, studying, studying.” — Bill Gurley

Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

What happened? I spent all summer waiting for the summer to start and it’s September this week 😭

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

Apparently people are being paid thousands for tweets (X’s?) now so maybe I should be brain dumping on here a lot more.

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

@CarmaChords The UK film industry are making comedies?? 🤔

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

This guys like the Better Call Saul of Hollywood.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Lizzo is being represented by Hollywood lawyer Marty Singer for her harassment and toxic workplace lawsuit.

Singer’s clientele ranges from a variety of stars, including Bill Cosby, Johnny Depp, Charlie Sheen, Chris Brown, Brett Ratner, and currently, Jonah Hill.

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

“I’m just Ken”? The tunes a banger.

[2000s @PopCulture2000s]

there’s no summer song this year 💀

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

July was supposed to be my month off.

I’ve just finished my invoices and I think it was my busiest, highest earning month so far.

Freelancing can be like that sometimes. Been a great year but boy do I want a holiday 🙃

[Ryan J Harvey @RyanJ_Harvey]

Boys gonna reincarnate like the Doctor.

[Redanian Intelligence @RedanianIntel]

The Witcher Producers Promise a Lore Accurate Transition from Henry Cavill to Liam Hemsworth
https://t.co/8hqnIMOUHC