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RE: Steemit Contest: Review A Horror Movie...Badly!
Cool! I hope to manage to partake, as I will have my sister and her family visiting me in Portugal from tomorrow onward. I am already working on something, so I think I will succeed in writing an entry.
Funny, it's almost as if you read my mind....
I have been watching quite a lot of movies lately ( starting the last four weeks or so ) but got pretty fed up of writing movie reviews and have been tired of it for a long time. This contest brings the fun back to film( writing ). So, thank you!
Have a great day and you'll hopefully hear/ read from me soon ;>)
Well, if I inspired you, then so much the better! I think it's important for creative sorts like us to take off the 'serious' hat periodically and just have fun. I studied acting and English in college, and one of the creative writing exercises I loved was as assignment where we had to re-imagine what a movie would have looked like from the villain's point of view (ie: what if he thought of himself as the good guy, and all these other assholes kept trying to stop him from doing what he had to do).
The exercise was all about humanizing villains, to make sure that when you wrote a story with an antagonist you understood what made that villain do what he or she was doing. "Nobody," my professor explained, "is the bad guy in their own narrative." And it made total sense. All I really did was apply that to Halloween, and then adopt the persona of that insufferable "film snob who knows everything, even though he never took a single class on film, and probably never even watched the movie" asshole you find everywhere on the Internet.
Then I had so much fun doing it, I had to share. Thus, the contest! And I cannot WAIT to see what you review! :D