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Kevin Kortum

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Netflix Denies Claims It Forces Filmmakers to Repeat Plot Points for Viewers: “Haters Gotta Hate” — World of Reel

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Netflix executives reportedly “laughed off” the idea that they require movies and TV shows to repeatedly recap their plots for audiences.

If I were a betting man, I would wager a lot of money that either a) the executives are lying or b) it’s a case of things lost in translation in a giant company because Netflix producers are absolutely giving notes to filmmakers to recap plots. It may not be a “requirement,” but the message is being heard loud and clear.

Paul Thomas Anderson Rewrote Martin Scorsese’s ‘What Happens at Night’ — World of Reel

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No word on whether he will actually get credited for the rewrite, but he definitely did extensive work, and this was, according to Sneider, at the request of DiCaprio.

I didn’t love Killers of the Flower Moon and after hearing PTA did extensive rewrites on it, I felt like I could see the seam a bit. I think PTA is an amazing writer, but he writers for the way he shoots and directs and I don’t think it meshes with the way Scorsese works.

the html review 05

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the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web

Haven’t gotten to it yet myself, but The HTML Review is always wonderful and always a huge inspiration for how we can do publishing different on this thing we call the interwebs.