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This advertisement for How to Write a Screenplay... concludes that a writer is more likely to be successful by writing original screenplays than by writing books. The ads reasoning is based on two claims: the average film tends to be more profitable than even best-selling books, and film producers are more likely to make movies based on original screenplays than on books because in recent years the films that have sold the most tickets have usually been based on original screenplays. I find the ad unconvincing, on three grounds.
First, the mere fact that ticket sales in recent years for screenplay-based movies have exceeded those for book-based movies is insufficient evidence to conclude that writing screenplays now provides greater financial opportunity for writers. Ticket-sale statistics from only a few recent years are not necessarily a good indicator of future trends. It is possible that fees paid by movie studios for screenplays might decrease in the future relative to those for book rights. Moreover. the argument is based on number of ticket sales, not on movie-studio profits or writers Sees. It is possible that studio profits and writer fees have actually been greater recently for book-based movies than for those based on original screenplays.
Another problem with the ad is that it assumes a writer must make an either-or choice from the outset between writing books and writing screenplays. The argument fails to rule out the possibility that a writer engage in both types of writing as well as other types. In fact. a writer may be more successful by doing so. Writing in various genres might improve ones effectiveness in each of them. Also, writing a book may be an effective first step to producing a screenplay. In any event, the ad provides no justification for the mutually exclusive choice it imposes on the writer.
A third problem with the ad is its ambiguous use of the word successful. The argument simply equates success with movie ticket sales. However, many writers may define writing success in other terms, such as intellectual or artistic fulfillment. The ads advice that writing screenplays is the best way to achieve writing success ignores other definitions of success.
In conclusion, this quick pitch for a book is based on simplistic assumptions about ticket sales and writer fees, and on an overly narrow definition of success in writing. To better evaluate this argument, at the very least we would need to know the number of years the cited statistic was based on, and the extent to which ticket sales reflect movie studio profits and writer fees.
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英语讲义【33】省一省,句子更简练
英语讲义【80】形容词从句的位置
英语讲义【61】英语短语
英语讲义【58】转化动词活灵活现
英语讲义【28】人称代词主格与宾格的选择方法
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英语讲义【70】英语惯用语的活用
英语讲义【73】片语动词
英语讲义【65】切忌囫囵吞枣
英语讲义【27】sometime和sometimes同义吗?
英语讲义【26】beside 和besides 通用吗?
英语讲义【32】形容词后缀不可乱加
英语讲义【62】不定式动词短语修饰形容词
英语讲义【22】被动语态的动词
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英语讲义【25】在句尾出现的介词
英语讲义【54】具副词功能的过去分词短语
英语讲义【64】容易混淆的形容词和副词
英语讲义【60】具副词功能的不定式动词短语
英语讲义【31】代名词不出错
英语讲义【46】The Number of...和A Number of...
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英语讲义【36】从后缀到派生词
英语讲义【39】垂悬结构
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英语讲义【42】“疑问词+不定式动词”结构
英语讲义【56】具副词功能的“连词+现在分词短语”
英语讲义【17】读上看下,猜猜词义
英语讲义【18】特殊句子的被动语态
英语讲义【55】形容词的位置
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