The No Film School Podcast The Writer's Strike Ends and Social Media Debates a Screenplay Page
Sep 28, 2023
36:59
Are you ready for the WGA strike to end? We sure are! After almost half a year, the WGA and AMPTP have announced they have agreed on terms.
In today’s episode, No Film School’s Charles Haine and Jason Hellerman discuss:
- WGA writers enjoying meals for free due to the generosity of a certain actor
- What a reboot of The Office would mean for writers
- The role of unions in the film industry
- Why labor movements in Hollywood are not going away
- The reason film companies fled New York City in the early 1900s
- Arbitrary rules of script writing and why we don’t agree with them
- Why you need to write many different scripts
Memorable Quotes
- “The union is not about getting people rich. The union, if it does its job right, will get some people rich. But it's making sure that everybody that’s working can at least afford to eat and have shelter.” [7:15]
- “The film industry being in Hollywood is at least, partially about labor history.” [12:55]
- “People want screenwriting to be so formulaic and so rule-driven.” [17:35]
- “You’re not gonna find your voice in the first script you write.” [29:55]
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