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Since the weight of the world ain't getting' any lighter
You better be a fighter
- Kane Roberts
What do you mean "Who's Kane Roberts?" He was Alice Cooper's guitar player in the late 80's, put out two solo albums and wrote half the songs on Kip Winger's first album. There's nothing quite like a quote from an 80's metal band. It's not like the stuff you hear today. I heard that Missy Elliott song that sounds like she's choking back a sneeze. How you gonna quote from that?
So, it's Kane Roberts to give you a little boost. I know I wrote about motivation last week, but there was something in that commentary that I thought deserved a little more focus.
Many are the tales of Hollywood success that came at a slow start. Many are the tales of Hollywood success that came at light speed. I'm talking screen projects here, people. If it took an Academy Award-winning actress four years to get a project moving, how can you think your entire career is going to be built in six months? And, if it took nine months to crank out some crappy sequel, what makes you think you'll have a perfect script in nine days? I just did a major re-write on a script that was done, and THAT took two weeks at 6-10 hours a day.
Perfection takes time.
I know a lot of you are fed up. You see a TV spot for a film that looks like it's going to suck tremendously. It's got all the suck elements: overused phrases like "Now, it's personal" or "My bad", some flavor-of-the-moment personality that's starring even though he/she has never acted before, blatantly stupid white people trying to act like hip black people, and rehashed plots that you could predict before the 30-second commercial ends. "She's a single mother raised in a small town. He's a fallen star who's looking to reclaim his place at the top of the rap charts, and he can only do it with her help. When they both get jobs at the AM/PM Mini Mart, destiny takes over. Monica Lewinsky and Young MC star in Crushed Ice."
Makes you wanna hit yourself repeatedly in the face with a garden tool, doesn't it? I've seen worse. We all have.
If you're just looking for a payoff, you can go. But, if you're really as good as you think you are, Hollywood needs you. The movie fans need you. Think of little Billy sitting in front of his TV in Clompus, Tennessee and wishing there was a cool movie he could go see. Are you going to disappoint little Billy? YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD!!
So, stay
Just a little bit longer
Please, please say
Say you'll stay
Your momma don't mind
And the roadies don't mind
Okay, so Jackson Brown isn't as quotable. That's okay. Maybe one day soon we'll see him in a movie with Missy Elliott where they coach a rag-tag band of misfit junior athletes (and a golden retriever) and lead them to an unlikely victory over a team that's been trained by Shaolin monks since birth and have been world champs for nine years running... UNTIL NOW.
That's where we're headed, unless you do something about it. Come on - what are you going to do back in your hometown, anyway? Anything you're going to do back there has been done to death. It's boring, predictable and redundant. Stay here and do something original and glorious.
Please?
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