<br>Unfortunately, I think the hardest part of getting a good H+ movie made would NOT be convincing a producer to take on a good H+ script (though that may be very hard), but rather keeping it from turning into something idiotic in the course of the movie-making process.
<br><br>The history of SF films is rather more dismal than the history of SF novels, I suppose because good SF is about ideas at least as much as human personalities and emotions; whereas mainstream film is almost entirely about human personalities and emotions and can barely deal with ideas at all.
<br><br>So, as I see it, the real key to getting an H+ film of any positive value (artistic, memetic, political or what have you) out there would be to find a producer, director and scriptwriter who ALL were sympathetic to the H+ set of ideas. If this happened, something really cool could come out of it, with potential to change peoples' minds as well as entertain them.
<br><br>But don't fool yourselves that simply putting the right script in the hands of a producer with money is gonna to it. Don't underestimate the degree to which the film industry can dumb down, and totally lose the point of, a great book or a great script (in SF, but not only in SF). We've all seen it happen time and time again.
<br><br>So if y'all are serious about this, the first step IMO would indeed by to find producers and/or directors who fundamentally "get it." Without that, it's not worth bothering. <br><br>A distorted, confused, conceptually misleading H+ movie might still be popular, and might well leave the movement worse off than had it not been made.
<br><br>-- Ben G<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Grigg</b> <<a href="mailto:desertpaths2003@yahoo.com">desertpaths2003@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Why do any of us have to write an original screenplay if we really don't feel up to it? There are already so many great science fiction stories which I bet could be adapted to this cause (with permission of course). Also remember that *DAMIEN BRODERICK* and *CHARLES STROSS* are among us, and so we have just the people we need to help get the ball rolling.
</div> <div> </div> <div>Best wishes,</div> <div> </div> <div>John Grigg : ) </div><div><span class="e" id="q_112606b099f53144_1"> <div> </div> <div><b><i>"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <<a href="mailto:sentience@pobox.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sentience@pobox.com</a>></i></b> wrote:</div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;">A B wrote:<br>> Now personally, I pretty<br>> much SUCK at writing fiction, I'd probably be no
<br>> better than average. But if *no-one* else, is<br>> interested, I'm going to *attempt* to start writing a<br>> free-of-charge screenplay. But without any help,
the<br>> result could be pretty abysmal.<br><br>You're correct, it will suck. And I'm too slow a writer, I've tried. <br>You are essentially stuck until a writer comes along.<br><br>-- <br>Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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