All,right, my reader's, I think I have a good topic today. Hope all is well with everyone who reads this.
There is a cable channel called E! Basically its a station that covers all genre's of entertainment. Now, before I go any further, I wanna start by saying, I am not writing this to critique. I have seem some of the shows this station has and it's not all bad.
But, how ever, there is one show they have that I must admit, isn't keeping up with it's title.
It's called "E! True Hollywood Story", now, even though they cover a specific crime in just about every story, not every story comes out of Hollywood, California.
For instance, last year or maybe 2 years ago there was this story of a woman who as a child was kidnapped and held hostage for about 17 years.Even though it was not a Hollywood kidnapping, think it did happen in California, but i don't know where and quite frankly I am not here to glamorize it.
That is what I think this show is doing. It's glamorizing crime's.
And no crime should be glamorized by anyone.
But, so goes the world. Alot of people are fascinated by crimes, especially infamous ones.
I'll give you two examples:
there is a musician in his own Rock band named, and I am not kidding you if you should be reading this and not now of this person, but his stage name is Marilyn Manson. For this blog, I will call him Brian Warner, because that is the name his parents gave him. Warner's reasoning if you can call it that was to shock people. He took the name of the famous Actress Marilyn Monroe and the other from mass murderer Charles Manson.
Anyone who would do that, automatically turns me off of their music.
When I heard his brand of music, I was also turned off by it. Not my cup of tea, sort of speak.
It just seems to me that if you're going to have a TV show that's called "True Hollywood story", keep it based there. Don't go searching the whole world for crimes that didn't happen in Hollywood.
There have been alot of films based on crimes. Some are good, while other's are just plain horrible and you have to ask your self why you paid hard earned money to watch them
In a 2002 motion picture entitled 'blow' Johnny Depp plays a career criminal who made his fortune by selling drugs, the lavish lifestyle this guy had and his numerous arrest as payment for his career choice. For it's technical side, its a good film. The screen writer wrote an effective story of this guy. Its based on a true story and was directed by the late Ted Demme, nephew of film director Jonathon Demme who himself directed the Oscar winning "Silence of the lambs".
But, technical stuff aside, to some extent it did glamorize the guy's life style.
Not the way you want to earn a living, regardless of how it might make you rich. You're going to get caught eventually
So, maybe it's just me, but I don't think you should go and make a television show that isn't about what the topic is.
In closing, I would like to add that during the course of next week I will be getting back to the topic of why this blog is called 'from paper to film.' Each day, I will take an area of film making and write about it.
Now, I understand that this may bore alot of people, because they don't have an interest in how a movie is made and that's fine. I just hope you find it enjoyable reading.
Until than, the balcony is closed.
Drm
