Becoming a hollywood producer...

Day 16,036 of the journey...

Today’s lesson…I can make it…but only if I keep going…

After finishing “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” ...



I started reading “Head of State”.  I love Chris Rock and I saw bits/pieces/parts of this film, but never the whole thing.  Sitting down to read the script brought the political satire completely to life.  It in fact advanced my understanding of “Satire”.

I am High School Graduate, I am a college Graduate and I am currently pursuing an MFA so I am more than familiar with the literary device.  I am however ALWAYS closing the gap between intellectual comprehension of a concept and the craft (craftsmanship) to create and execute these concepts into living breathing things…screenplays, plays, poems and short stories.

“Head of State” moved me closer…I felt it… ("did y'all feel that ...over there?")



write, produce and direct


Danna

(I am excited to report I met Chris Rock earlier this year at a party.  I so wish I had read this before that day...we might have conversed about something other than the gray hair he's hiding and the gray that I hide by cutting my hair as SHORT and CLOSE as possible)...look at that short hair on the girl in the center...me

Becoming a hollywood producer...

Day 16,035 of the journey...



Today's lesson...persevere...that's it...

I held on. Even though the script for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (that I'd begun on Wednesday) felt  like the story that would never end, I knew it would and that I had to finish it.  I did.

The source for the script was not a PDF, but a txt document.  A "txt" document prints out tiny unless you copy and paste it into a word document. I did.  In that format it turns into 424 pages of script formatted "txt" aka "hot mess"...and I read it ... all of it.  I am admittedly a member of the "procrastinating bum" class, but I don't feel anything is gained when we shortcut the process.

It was so very long, but did not disappoint.  I soaked in my triumph and began reading Chris Rock and Ali Leroi's "Head of State" script which was to my surprise in many ways a modern retelling of "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington", what a coincidence...really a "God Wink".

I say "God Wink", because it gave me new insight into the writing process that feels like it will serve my current career path well.

I was inspired to press toward the mark of the higher calling....


write, produce and direct


Danna