Make The Audience Wonder What's Going On

The Job Of The Artist, Is To Say, Wait A Second, Everything That We Have Thought Is Wrong. Let's Re-examine It.

Each Culture Has Its Own Form Of Staged Combat, Evolved From Its Particular Method Of Street Fighting And Cleaned Up For Presentation As A Spectacle, E.g. Savate, Cornish Wrestling, Karate, Kung-fu.

Society Functions In A Way Much More Interesting Than The Multiple-choice Pattern We Have Been Rewarded For Succeeding At In School. Success In Life Comes Not From The Ability To Choose Between The Four Presented Answers, But From The Rather More Difficult And Painfully Acquired Ability To Formulate The Questions.

Consider: For All The Gobbledegook [film Studio] Executives Spout About Backstory, All That We, The Audience, Want To Know Is What Happens Next. That's The Only Thing That's Going On. . . . Character Is Nothing Other Than Action, And Character-driven Means The Plot Stinks, And You'd Better Hope The Star Is Popular Enough To Open The Movie In Spite Of It.

The Work Of The Director Is The Work Of Constructing The Shot List From The Script.