Read an announcement today that they are doing another season of this show. Just started watching it. Did anybody else get into this?
What were your favorite moments? What made you stick with it if you did? What made you give up on it if you went that way?
I'm very much a collector of stories behind the movie. From hitchcock to singer I've got a bunch that I refer to in case somebody brings up the usual suspects or psycho at a cocktail parties. Now I just have to get invited to cocktail parties. Did this show appeal to those like me? I know I'm not the only one.
Any thoughts?
Man, that takes me back … used to love that show. That's when I was really into screenwriting. I wanted to enter my feature script before that first year, but can't remember why I didn't. The fact that Kevin Spacey was behind it was really cool at the time, and it's before reality TV became a bad word. You had the douchey tough-love producers, the directors trying to assert themselves without the requisite conviction, and unknown actors with swagger. It gave us Feast, but also LeBoeuf.
The show even inspired me to make my own short film "Featurette" satirizing it (presented as a documentary on a DVD that contained no actual feature film), which screened at a few festivals. Keep in mind this was nine years ago, before YouTube and such.
I did the very first contest, I think, in 1999. I'm pretty bitter about it but then I'm a mean old bitter, bitter writer. LOL I was very peeved about people on the site writing bogus crap reviews of other people's spec scripts in some assinine attempt to boost their scripts rating.
Anyhooo, caught a couple episodes of the show. I liked watching Chris Moore be the ultimate diaper stain and yelling at the winning writer(s) on conference calls while Ben Affleck sat in the back and giggled. Moore was a shining example of people who serve no real purpose in the entertainment industry other than convincing everyone else they need to exist, their jobs need to exist (they don't really).
I remember watching Aidan Quinn whine about how awful being in 'Stolen Summer' was and how he would never work with novices again.
I liked one person's summation of Greenlight early on, which was essentially if you create a contest like this the most mediocre script will win.
