the stakes are highyou are playing poker
without cards
Bennie, Ben,
Wag The Dog.
learn to write
cliffhangers,
aka Zeigarnik them,
use the devices
that compel you
to turn the page
of your favorite novel
or when you are compelled
beyond your control
to click on a link...
http://overcomeeverything.com/forbidden
Here's the story I'm working on...
BINKY BEAR
Why let a few facts get in the
way of great story?
HOWARD CAMPBELL
Because we are what we pre-
tend to be?
BINKY BEAR
That question supports my point!
You should pretend to be valiant
and successful because pretending
these things with amazing realism
is the path to becoming valiant
and successful...
I'm learning to tell myself profitable
stories. Yes, these stories manifest
attraction, and they are of a deeper
order of realism. That's why these
stories work so effectively to make
money. Allow me to explain...
May I get very real with you? I'm going
to swear in a moment. I'll say the
"S" word...
You know the problem with
Hollywood?
They make shit. Unbelievable,
unremarkable shit.
You gotta tell yourself believ-
able stories. If you swear in
real life and then restrict your-
self from hearing swear words
when you go to learn to make
money... what part of your life
is freer? Expand your freedom
to make money and watch your
self flourish with more effective
stories.
Most people overestimate what
they can do in a year and under-
estimate what they can do in 10
years.
You wanna help me make a
movie? We can make a movie
by the end of this year, but let's
give ourselves two years.
I'm not some grungy filmmaker-
wannabee searching for meaning
through a haze of bong-smoke.
I made over $30k the week of my
birthday. I had a great birthday dinner.
Thank you Jodi & Tellman.
But I digress...
It's easy to pick apart bad acting,
short-sighted directing, or the purely
moronic stringing together of words
many of the studios term as prose.
No, I'm talking the lack of REALISM.
Realism. Not a pervasive element
in the modern American cinematic
vision.
Take Wag The Dog for
example. Arguably Pacino's
greatest performance, excepting
The Godfather, Part I, and
Scarface, of course.
Wag The Dog, a masterpiece of
directing, easily Levinson's best. The
acting, the script, cinematography,
all top notch. But, they didn't push the
envelope. What if in Wag the Dog,
Pacino's character really wanted to
get more power.
What if, and here's where it gets tricky.
What if he'd started...
Continued here...
http://overcomeeverything.com/forbidden
then, the opt-in page for teleseminar
homework is to buy Beinhart's book How To Write A Mystery.
(here's the continuation of the story...)
What if, and here's where it gets tricky.
What if he'd started killing hostages?
No mercy, no quarter, meet our
demands or the cute blonde in the
bell bottoms gets one in the back
of the head, bam, splatter. What?
Still no bus? No Energy Bus to take
us to our new Utopia?
How many innocent victims would
they let get sprayed across the
windows before the city reversed
its policy on hostage situations?
And this was 1976. No C.N.N., no
C.N.B.C., no M.T.V. No Internet.
Fast forward to the present, same
situation. Can you imagine the
feeding frenzy of the modern
media? In hours it would be the
top story from Boston to Budapest.
All caught in 150 millimeter zoom,
computer enhanced, and color
corrected. You would practically
taste the brain matter. Six
hostages die. Ten. Twelve.
Twenty. Thirty. Relentless. One
after another. All over a bus, a
plane, and a couple of million
dollars that were federally
insured.
Just a thought. I mean it's not
really within the realm of
conventional cinema, but what
if...?
HOWARD CAMPBELL
You know, this movie of yours, I
don't think it would have worked.
BINKY BEAR
Really? How come?
HOWARD CAMPBELL
(shrugs)
Audiences love happy endings.
BINKY BEAR
Pacino escapes. With the money.
Learn to escape with the money
on The Magic Teleseminar...
The Magic Teleseminar
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