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6371171 No.6371171 [Reply] [Original]

How come so many of you dudes want to be writers? I rarely see fans of film wanting to make movies themselves.

>> No.6371174

>>6371171

I'd like to be a writer, but I don't think it will likely happen. Which is why I'm majoring in Sociology.

Besides, it's better to always keep tabs on your mind by writing for yourself, and not for a check.

>> No.6371181

>>6371171
yes you do???

>> No.6371188

Because writing is still seen as a very personal art, where talent and determination are still seen as critical factors to success. Same with musicians.

Film has too many variables, such as material, studio heads, bureaucracy, which--admittedly-- also exist in every other creative career, but which are much more pronounced in filmmaking.

There's still something romantic about spilling your blood and sweat on the page and being singularly recognized for it.

>> No.6371192

I don't know. Most of my friends go to art school, and my friend who loves film goes to film school. There's a difference between being a fan and loving the art form so much you wish to add to its canon. I love literature and written works, and wish to do just as my painter friends do, and just like my buddy in film school.

>> No.6371199

>>6371171
Because we live on an era where meaningful and satisfying work is rare. Most of us work bullshit jobs because our only two options are

A) do something unfulfilling and pointless in exchange for money

Or

B) spend our time doing something worthwhile and live on welfare.


Successfull y breaking into writing is a shot at both.

>> No.6371348

>>6371171
It looks like something anybody could do. It's like stand up comedy. People think they just need to follow their passion, or find the right way to network. People don't see it this way for a successful scientist. But actually, the path to proficiency is very similar.

>> No.6371370

>>6371174
>Which is why I'm majoring in Sociology
yeah id like fries with that haha loser

>> No.6371374

>>6371370

Social Worker is a demanded job. It doesn't pay excellent, but I'd rather be helping someone. Clear conscious. :)

>> No.6371379

>>6371370
Hahaha sick burn homie u showed that fuckin loser

>> No.6371398

>>6371348
>People don't see it this way for a successful scientist. But actually, the path to proficiency is very similar.
This. While it's very common to tell teens that their wild dreams of being a film director or famous actor or published writer are taking one chance in a thousand or more, someone is choosing to study chemistry and eventually discovers some key element that changes how that field is understood or are part of the group deciding Pluto isn't a full planet (which it never was, but cold war and stuff). The first group sounds fake because there's a fame factor that the others don't have, but it's more or less just as dificult to have a fulfilling life with one or the other.

>> No.6371405

>>6371374
conscience u fuck

>> No.6371420
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6371420

>>6371188
>talent and determination are still seen as critical factors to success

>> No.6371477

>>6371370
My name is /lit/
and i like to shit
all over your hopes
and dreams.

>> No.6371518

Writing doesn't require much literal tools and materials does it? While to be a really good filmmaker you need money, network connections and power. Whilst, you're minimum requirements are pen, paper and your mind.

>> No.6371536

I don't get this either, I love reading but feel no desire to write.

>> No.6371552

>>6371536
Well, not all of us desire to write and/or get published.

Think of it like watching Soccer. You admire watching Professional players kick the ball back and fourth for 120 mins or so, but you don't necessarily want to become a professional player yourself.

>> No.6371598

>>6371171
I enjoy reading more than watching movies, though I'd rather be a filmmaker, mainly because I'd be better at telling a story through images. Writing is just too damn difficult.

>> No.6371655

>>6371370

> Sociology is a pseudo-science

> No familiarity with Marx, Comte, Durkheim, Mills, Bourdieu, Goffman, etc.

> No interest in societies, no curiosity

> Muh interests

> No respect for a scientifical project born of the tears of industrialisations that has contributed to human ressources, productivity, history, psychology, political and industrial strategy, demography, geography, etc.

>> No.6371690

>>6371348

I dont think you can compare the path of proficiency of an art to a science.

>> No.6371705

>>6371171
Much easier to be delusional as to one's writing abilities than chances of making a movie they're satisfied with

>> No.6372428

>>6371171
Because throughout my academic life people have praised my writing talents to such extremes that I now operate under the delusion that my writing will stand the test of time when really I'm just another dumb fuck urinating onto my own trouser legs

>> No.6372450

Film takes much more of a budget and much more people skills than being in possession of word processing software and a computer, OP.

>> No.6372469

>>6371171
lower overhead

>> No.6372481

/lit/ is lazy and narcissistic. They think writing will be an easy way to get money and respect. The only bad part is that /lit/ doesn't actually like writing. /lit/ just likes the idea of being a writer.

>> No.6372500

>>6371518
>>6372450
writing requires very little. Being identified as a writer on the other hand (IE, making a living off your writing) needs all kinds of marketing/publishing shite which most people ignore because they've romanticised the idea in their head and overlook all the bureaucratic nonsense

>> No.6372506

>I rarely see fans of film wanting to make movies themselves.
Really? I do.

>> No.6372533

>>6371171
first of all, yes you do, second, budget.

>> No.6372653

well, all you need is paper and pencil at worst, whereas you need actual effort, not to mention resources and actual technical knowledge, to make a movie.

>> No.6372690

>>6371420
In the long term, this is true. Film is fucking pleb because even innovative idiots will be recognized.