Writer's Block: Film therapy
Mar. 30th, 2010 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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"That Thing You Do!" always makes me happy. It embodies everything about the movies that most of the big studios seem to have forgotten about. To wit:
You don't have to have a "big star" in the lead role for it to be a good movie. Tom Hanks is in it, but not from the beginning, and it's not really a "lead" role.
You don't have to have the F bomb dropped every third word in order for the dialogue to be "interesting" or "grown-up".
You don't have to have nudity or sex in the movie *at all* in order for the movie to have an interesting plot.
You don't have to blow things up every ten minutes in order for the movie to have an interesting plot.
"That Thing You Do!" always makes me smile because it's about working hard to succeed. Not having everything you want because you're rich, or pretty, or famous. Actually *working* to get where you want to go, how much sweeter success tastes when it's not handed to you on a platter...and what happens when working hard just isn't enough to maintain that success.
"That Thing You Do!" always makes me happy. It embodies everything about the movies that most of the big studios seem to have forgotten about. To wit:
You don't have to have a "big star" in the lead role for it to be a good movie. Tom Hanks is in it, but not from the beginning, and it's not really a "lead" role.
You don't have to have the F bomb dropped every third word in order for the dialogue to be "interesting" or "grown-up".
You don't have to have nudity or sex in the movie *at all* in order for the movie to have an interesting plot.
You don't have to blow things up every ten minutes in order for the movie to have an interesting plot.
"That Thing You Do!" always makes me smile because it's about working hard to succeed. Not having everything you want because you're rich, or pretty, or famous. Actually *working* to get where you want to go, how much sweeter success tastes when it's not handed to you on a platter...and what happens when working hard just isn't enough to maintain that success.
