RE: [personal] Re: [microsound] (OT) neuromancer soundtrack/film - was snow crash

["mark" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Films like Jonny Mnemonic just prove people's willingness to destroy
art in the name of the almighty buck, including the artist's themselves.
I lost a lot of respect for gibson after that movie but I believe works
of art to be like children, they should not be held accountable for
their parents' actions."

A few years ago I knew some independent film makers - a writer friend of
mine 
and myself put together a script of some ideas we had been working on
(drawn from
both of our work) at their suggestion and let one of  them loose on it. 

We rapidly discovered that our "vision" and script where seen merely as
a starting 
point. Plot and text we considered vital where dispensed with so that a
visual 
effect could be made or so that the director could put in something that
they wanted. 

In the end we pulled out on the grounds that if they weren't going to
make the film 
we had written then what was the point. If however like Gibson you have
financial 
ties plus the film is going to be made whether you like it or not I can
imagine trying 
to soldier on to try and salvage something. Its not very likely to
happen to me but 
I personally would NEVER get involved with a film project on those
terms. 

cheers 

mark