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Films, games, books. How hard is it to be successful?
5 years ago
Today, I want to talk about making films, games, and books.
For a long time I’ve wondered why so many films and tv shows are, to put it bluntly, bad. Either they cost an outrageous amount of money for no obvious reason, or they are so poorly thought out and half arsed that I wonder why the people got the job to begin with.
Then we have books. I hear stories of authors trying for years, decades even trying to get a manuscript published with no success. Yet most books are either boring or lack substance.
I’ll give one concrete example. I’ve heard Eragon was written by a 15 year old, ripped off stuff from other fantasy books, and is widely disliked, but it was successful enough to get a film, game, a series of sequels, and has a fanbase to this day.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Now, the obvious answer is that publishing/production companies are corrupt, and that’s certainly part of it, but I sometimes wonder how difficult creating these things really is.
I’ve said in the past that I’ve considered making my own film, but I always think of other things I’d rather spend the money on. I’m not a writer, but I sometimes wonder if I could write a story that is at least on par with most of the crap out there.
But then that arrogance makes me suspect it’s not that easy. If it was, there would be a glut of great media now.
For a long time I’ve wondered why so many films and tv shows are, to put it bluntly, bad. Either they cost an outrageous amount of money for no obvious reason, or they are so poorly thought out and half arsed that I wonder why the people got the job to begin with.
Then we have books. I hear stories of authors trying for years, decades even trying to get a manuscript published with no success. Yet most books are either boring or lack substance.
I’ll give one concrete example. I’ve heard Eragon was written by a 15 year old, ripped off stuff from other fantasy books, and is widely disliked, but it was successful enough to get a film, game, a series of sequels, and has a fanbase to this day.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Now, the obvious answer is that publishing/production companies are corrupt, and that’s certainly part of it, but I sometimes wonder how difficult creating these things really is.
I’ve said in the past that I’ve considered making my own film, but I always think of other things I’d rather spend the money on. I’m not a writer, but I sometimes wonder if I could write a story that is at least on par with most of the crap out there.
But then that arrogance makes me suspect it’s not that easy. If it was, there would be a glut of great media now.
