STORYTELLING in the 21st Century
The Embarrassing Secret
Horace Engdahl , the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, told a journalist last week that the American novel is ``too isolated, too insular.'' American writers, he said, ``don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature.'' It appears the the Nobel Prize may be lost to the American storyteller.
“Indies” -- Independent Distributors: Dimension Focus Features Fox Searchlight IFC Genius Gold Circle Films Lionsgate Films Miramax Newmarket Picturehouse Paramount Vantage THINK Film Sidney Kimmel Sony Classics Warner Independent The Weinstein Co.
The purpose of the writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. Camus
The Four Quadrant Audience 8 - 10 < 7 years 11 - 13 years 14 - 17 years 18 - 24 years 25 - 35 years 36 + years years Boys Boys Men Men Men Men Boys Girls Girls Women Women Women Women Women
The Idea is King.
Content is King. Summer Redstone, CEO Viacom
Pixar Key Audience Quadrants 8 - 10 < 7 years 11 - 13 years 14 - 17 years 18 - 24 years 25 - 35 years 36 + years years Boys Boys Men Men Men Men Boys Girls Girls Women Women Women Women Women
Once-a-Year Audience 8 - 10 < 7 years 11 - 13 years 14 - 17 years 18 - 24 years 25 - 35 years 36 + years years Boys Boys Men Men Men Men Boys Girls Girls Girls Women Women Women Women
The Pig-in-the-Python 1946 1967
The Pig-in-the-Python 1946 1967
Good, True, Beautiful Wilberforce
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” Hosea 4:6
“I put before you life and death, the blessing and the curse, now choose life.” Deuteronomy 30:19
The Audience wants to experience What the Character experiences: Transformation Becoming Fully Alive Or, the Living Dead Cinema is the artform of transformation
There are only two themes in Storytelling: Reinvention Redemption
Billy Wilder “If you want to send a message, send a telegram.”
“In all my years in Hollywood, I knew maybe 5 writers who knew structure. But you Billy Wilder could always find someone to write great dialogue.”
Huston Smith
“It was the mystery, the magic, the wonder and the innocence of never having done it before. These were the seeds of creativity that developed into my personal story.”
The biggest thing I’ve been thankful for, I’ve been able to use my imagination. That’s where my imagination came into play.
Y’know, I thought I could do it.
It’s the worst of times, and the best of times.
Excellence in Storytelling Audacity What the Audience Wants Take Me To A World I’ve Never Seen Before
Tell Me A Story Compelling Structure
Why can’t they make movies like they used to?
Let’s do it.
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