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[ SECRET POST #3556 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3556 ⌋

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[Lord of the Rings trilogy]

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[pride and prejudice; unnamed others]

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[Endeavour]

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[Tim Curry / Movies: IT, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue, Legend]

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[Loud House]

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[MST3K]

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[Lord of the Rings trilogy]

So your secret is that you're normal? Who doesn't have a dream of being successful in some form of art or entertainment instead of doing the average job they do now?

Lots of people daydream about those things, but they're not eaten up inside with regret. I'm not, for example. Why would you think that was normal?

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(Anonymous) - 2016-09-29 02:27 (UTC) - Expand

Uh, I've never wanted to be involved in art or entertainment. Ever. Not everyone has that dream.

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philstar22 - 2016-09-28 23:14 (UTC) - Expand

I don't, and nor does anyone I know...

If it's any consolation (and it might be the opposite) - you could have realized this at 16, done everything right, and still not have gotten further than having made a few shorts that were shown at local festivals.

However, I have a tip for you if you're less particular about the function: FX make-up.

Apparently it takes only about two years to master decently, and it's easier to get into than being a director. If you can get really good, you can get a job in genre movies.

Edited 2016-09-28 22:52 (UTC)

"I don't want to have to work hard doing lots of unpopular projects that don't pay the bills like the vast majority of artists have to do for years before anyone's willing to trust them with something bigger!"

So tired of this argument style, if you can call it that. Writing what you think someone means, in the first-person and putting it in quotes like they actually said it. This isn't what quotation marks are for.

Yes. Because that's exactly what OP said.

LOL this is literally how it came off to me as well.

If this were someone being serious about the jobs they are actively seeking to do, I'd agree with your smug asshole-ness. But it's okay to daydream about really wanting to do something specific.

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(Anonymous) - 2016-09-28 23:29 (UTC) - Expand

Here's the thing, chief: if you'd started young and gone to all the right schools you STILL probably wouldn't make it to these big productions. These productions are a tiny tiny sliver of the industry.

So do you want to do creative work or do you just want to be the famous person being lauded for creative work?

If it's the former, get started.

Edited 2016-09-28 22:59 (UTC)

This is good advice. Good stuff, pardner.

^This.

Well put.

And even among the sliver of people that get to work on big-budget films, only a sliver of them get to work on films they actually like, that you are probably a fangirl/boy of.

I have a friend who moved out to California with the dream of doing movie editing/effects/etc. And his big break is working on a dumb comedy series that's gone on for about six movies too long, that's sort of "discount movie bin" famous. He hates it, but hey, that's how it goes and he's way luckier than most.

Yep, pretty much. I started writing seriously in my late 40s and won Writers of the Future in my 50s. Do I wish I'd started sooner? Hell, yes. Did I sit down and whine that it was "too late"? Hell, no. I sat in front of my keyboard and got to scribbling. I have a novel published by a small press that's done moderately well enough that they want a sequel and a bunch of shorts published here and there.

As my husband likes to say, "Can't never could." "Too late" is a figment of a limited mind.

Re: Unrealistic expectations will do that to anybody

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Even if you won the lottery, you'd probably have to start with small productions to build connections anyway. Celebrity actors, screenwriters, and directors don't readily attach themselves to people with too much money and too little reputation.

I get it, OP. I don't aspire to be a producer or a special effects person but I understand how it feels when you love the hell out of something but think it's just too damn late to start.

At this very moment, there are tons of people younger than you, more trained than you and probably also more talented than you out there doing grunt work and small projects likely no one will ever see.

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(Anonymous) - 2016-09-29 03:06 (UTC) - Expand

I'm too old to do many of the things I wish I'd done with my life too. It's kind of depressing sometimes but with age comes a certain lethargy and I really just want to retire and sit by a lake with my cats on my lap. *Sigh

So you want all the fame, glory, and be at the top of the field but don't want to put in the work to get there? Yeah good luck with that. Unless you are extremely lucky or born into the entertainment business you have to bust your butt to get anywhere. And even if you bust ass there is no guarantee that you will be successful. For every successful person in the business there are scores of people who never make it or who's career fizzles out after one film, one song, one tv spot, etc....

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(Anonymous) - 2016-09-29 00:47 (UTC) - Expand

You want to start work on a film as inexcusable and horrid as any one of Peter Jackson's?

Cheapest camera you can find and some sausage links. Have at.

I feel like I've seen this secret before, or a similar one.

Two things= you are NOT too old. Just go and take the courses. Yeah, some of the people who are famous now started as kids, but not all the people. But they are started taking classes.

Second, how do you think the people at WETA started? Small projects, commercials, TV shows, etc. You have to start small to learn and get a resume that the people who hire will look at.

Working at Weta is not hard. I live in Wellington and know so many people who've worked there, in all sorts of areas.

The thing is though you don't actually want to work there. They treat their workers fucking terribly and screw them out of employment rights. They even managed to successfully lobby the government to legalise their shitty behaviour because they're so important to our economy. They basically just exploit people like you who dream of working in the industry and think it will be amazing and glamorous. They're disgusting.

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