Every Hollywood Film Seems Alike? We May Have Found Writer Zero

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save-the-cat-imageThe book Save The Cat seems to have had . . . undue influence on the writing process in Hollywood.  As in, most of it.

It’s hard to argue with the thesis of this article (especially with the checklist right there) and with the fact Hollywood films have gone awful checklist – as we’ve talked about here endlessly.  So this might be “Writer Zero” in any attempt to track the epidemiology of sameness.

I might be skeptical that one book could have an influence, but then again there’s the disturbingly believable claim that it looks like one dumb idea helped lead to our cultural-econmic-financial-business culture problems.

Serdar of course will be writing more of this on his blog, which I look forward to.  I wish I could do more than nod and go “probably” and may in the days to come.

– Steven

Smart Watches? No.

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So as reported it seemed that everyone and their competitor is trying to make a Smart Watch. Microsoft has one apparently made of “Transparent Aluminum“, welcome all sorts of Trek jokes. Apple is aiming for something in 2014 according to the news..

Pebble’s kickstarter did well but I’m thinking it’s kind of the Ouya of watches – an interesting experiment.

But my take?

Not going to work.  No big new market.  No iPhone like fad.  Nothing to warrant everyone out there making a Smart Watch.

Oh sure, some will sell. Some will succeed. But do I think this is the next big thing? The next iPhone? The next tablet?

No.

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