Anthony Silverwood: Screenwriter in Columbia, Missouri.

Thank you for the interest Diane. If you paste the address https://www.stage32.com/profile/143374/scripts_screenplays

into your browser, this should take you to my loglines page. Beneath each logline is the option to "Download the screenplay and comment. click on that you should get a PDF.

Remember that 9ine-One-One and Cut the Blue Wire. are the two that have been getting the most due dilligence, and on which I'm most hoping for feedback opinions, and so forth. But hey, anything you wanna read is cool with me. I'm an outsider looking in, and I need all the help I can get

Hey, Tony. I read the first 30 pages of "Blue Wire." A few notes - first I feel like swearing like a mo...fo. Your dialog is authentic, clever, brutal. Great job there.

Description is pretty dense all around "The branching (neuron/dendrite-like) networks of blue wires have now been replaced by branching FIBER OPTIC CABLES, " If blue wires aren't there now, they shouldn't be in the descrip. You take two lines to say "Fiber Optic Cables." You can trim description in many places. it will make it easier to read.

Awesome joke one-liners. Still trying to wrap my head around a pair of stoners being anywhere around a bomb disposal unit though.

Thanks MARK and DIANE, for just the kind of info I need to get this script to the place it needs to be. And Mark, as for the two heroes being stoners in Blue Wire: There's a hook later for this. The device causes something called Graviton Psychosis. cannabinoids like THC are the only antidote. This, we come to find, is why Chase and Devon are able to approach the bomb in sane condition, while the world around them goes increasingly nuts.

By the way - love your :Showgirls Effect' description.

Kevin Carothers I agree. How many 'business school Groupthinkers' really make an impact on the world of business? 'Group' anything prevents 'free-thinking', individual development and achievement. And as Janis referred - look at 'politicians'.

Thank you for referring us to the link. Rupert Murdoch left schooling at 14, and Kerry Packer (both media Gurus) whose achievements still impact the world. Packer's life-long desire was to represent Australia (in 'something - "even marbles". Unfortunately he died without having achieved this for himself but left us with much more.

Thank you Bill Costantini and CJ.

The kind of stuff I'm hearing from CJ, Phillip and Dan, THAT''S the good news I've been yearning to hear. You can still take an original idea and make it fly, as long as you stay mindful that show business is a force of nature, and you can't change its agendas any more that you can change the weather.

Anthony: Like me, you're a salmon swimming up stream but always do your best work and keep pitching to anyone who will listen and read. Best of luck to you.

Oh my. I think even if my scripts were just looked upon as writing samples that would still be great if it could get me a job. I'd love to work in a writer's room on a show or so something like that.

Basically I'll be fine with them being samples to start out with, keep working on my stuff on the side and someday making it happen.

I think it's also good to kind of have a track record. Working on projects, even if they're someone else's, is probably not a bad idea. At least that proves that you can do what needs to be done.

Good one Bill. That career was like a monetary springboard which enabled escape velocity from past perceptions to transform into someone new. From cocoon to metamorphosis requires practice. Daily practice at a pursuit you love that pays for a Frank Lloyd Wright home and a Lamborghini is someone who looks in the mirror and smiles because ya took the time to hone/earn your craft. Champions practice daily.

My friend in LA, drummer Ndugu Chancler, made it out of South Central Watts with practice and two drumsticks... went on and played with Santana and Michael Jackson.

That's a gift he gave me... the belief.

When I play percussion, I'm glad I took the time to get good. The Who's drummer said that he's never lonely because he can play music. His talent became his best friend.

Brian: nice words. Keep up the great work and great attitude. And Ndugu sure was a great human who left this world a better place.

RIP, Ndugu Chancier (July 1, 1952 - Feb 3, 2018).

Bill: did not know about Ndugu's passing. Stunned. Tremendous person with infectious laughter. In 2014, I drove from Detroit to LA to give gratitude to former mentors, and Ndugu was the first I thanked. Makes me glad I made the 8000 mile trip even more now.

What Erik Jacobsen said. Equilibrium is essentially the establishment of a "new normal" - that doesn't mean "happy" necessarily. But as Laura Scheiner said, it needs to be emotionally satisfying. And what is or is not "emotionally satisfying" depends on the specific genre. A mystery that doesn't find the killer isn't satisfying. A "romance" where the hero dies or the couple otherwise don't get together isn't emotionally satisfying(and no, romeo and juliet is not a romance; it's a tragedy ... and in that context, it is emotionally satisfying.).

Oh no! Not another theory to worry about! I'd squeeze Todorov in my toolbox but Syd Field and Joe Campbell might get testy.

One person's miserable ending is another's happy ending.

An example to me is "A walk on the moon" with Viggo Mortensen & Diane Lane.

Indiscretion, cheating and lying to a spouse was the theme to some.

Finding sexual satisfaction, a moment of carefree-happiness was the theme to others.

It's pretty hard to get a definition "happily ever after" anymore. Things don't really work that way these days.

I would argue that the more important issue is the ending has to stay true to the script. And the script has to connect with the audience - whomever that may be... Men, women, children, those that want to be happy, sad, frightened.... There's a movie for everyone.

http://www.movieoutline.com/articles/how-filmmakers-connect-with-audienc...

I agree with James Drago and Sarah Gabrielle Baron ... a waste of time.

The black list has become this massive crazy juggernaut of capitalism over creativity. all these armchair gate-keepers they hire to make judgments abut your work that may or may or may not be myopic, biased, or downright harmful to your career.

I think all that pollutes the creative process.

I have used them also. Evaluations range tremendously. It seems like they want you to pay for evaluations over and over to get the rating up since it has to be over a certain rating to be considered on the preferred list. I have received some really good feedback from there but also some really basic and useless feedback. It's a crap shoot.

yes and no

Yeah,I get how the peer review thing - while it may be cornerstone of the science community, is the proverbial double edged sword here in the screenwriter's universe. The trick I think is to disseminate and distill the good advice, from the bad. In cyberspace, everyone can hear you scream, and that's not always a good thing..

Welcome! I understand the hesitance about getting feedback. Just recently joined Coverflyx as well. Some great help, and some trolling, but both would be expected as everyone else has pointed out.