" screenwriters "

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1: A person who writes scipts, that is, the dialogue and actions of a movie. First drafts are often quite different to the final script which becomes a film, but the plotline usually stays similar.

  * e.g.,  ... "I'm a screenwriter" 

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2: Compared to directors and actors, screenwriters are way down in the food chain of fame, recognition, and money.

  * e.g.,  ... "What's that?" 

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1: The Inventor of a film. The most under-valued person in the filmmaking process.

  * e.g.,  ... Person#1: "Casablanca, what a masterpiece. You know it took four screenwriters to write that? Person#2: "What's a Screenwriter?" 

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1: -noun, plural 'screenwriters'

  * e.g.,  ... No one on the set tells the director or producer how to direct or produce. But everyone's a Goddamn writer. Everyone tells the screenwriter how to write. 

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2:  That guy who works as a receptionist and has been doing so for years. He keeps telling you about this killer idea he's working on, but you've never seen a single page.

  * e.g.,  ... Screenwriters need to realize that scripts are kinda like assholes: everyone's got at least one. 

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3:  Any idiot who failed English in high school or college.

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4:  A career track at an institution of higher learning like USC, UCLA, or CMU. Usually taught by a 'working professional' who sold one script about a hero dog who saves his owner. Ironically, the cost of tuition far exceeds what most people will make as a career screenwriter.

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5:  Anyone with an opinion about a movie who believes they could do better if given the chance.

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6:  Anyone with access to word processing software.

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1: Oh? Does that suck? You worked hard but my thing is the best thing ever written of it's kind and I DIDN'T have to work hard? Wow! It's kind of like someone fucked a retard instead of you... You know? Like... Figuratively... That sucks for you... Enjoy not getting paid enough or AT ALL for your contribution. I wouldn't know what that's like because I'm not allowed to exist and (therefore) nothing can or is happening to me.

  * e.g.,  ... Hym "Yeah, that sucks about the screenwriters getting paid more than 0 dollars to do a less good job than me and then ignoring my existence because I refuse to tow a partisan and/or ideological lines. Like... They bitch about denying trans people's existence but here they are denying someone's existence.... A little hypocritical... Just saying..."