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After studying the past recipients of Academy Awards for screenwriting and best film, I have concluded that in order for me to win an Oscar my script must include certain genres, character arch and political views.
Some of these include, characters struggling with:
* disabilities
* racial discrimination
* sexual orientation
* religious persecution
* unjust imprisonment
* idiot savant stuff
With those in mind, I figured "why not just combine them all into one and just blow the fucking doors off the industry?"
I think that's exactly what I did.
After two years of development, I have recently completed my first draft of the screenplay that will win me my first Oscar: "The Blind Brown Saints of Bergen-Belsen"
(source: The Hollywood Reporter) ...A sweeping and epic World War II love story that takes place behind the walls of one of Germany's most brutal concentration camps, The Blind Brown Saints of Bergen-Belsen tells the story of two blind African-American tourists who are mistaken as Jewish merchants and jailed. Shipped off to a concentration camp, they use both courage and math skills to save the lives of the camp's youngest prisoners -- all the while hiding their forbidden homosexual love affair from their brutal Nazi captors.
The script is currently making the rounds and beginning to attach talent. Pages have been leaked online from an earlier draft -- but I am removing them as I find them. Just remember you heard it here first!
Wish me luck...
Brett
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So is Christopher Eads really the Carson Reeves behind the Script Shadow or "ScriptShadow" persona as he is known on the Internet? If the rumors are true it would seem that Christopher Eads was releasing drafts of screenplays that are still in developement. I guess that sounds cool... for aspiring screenwriters, that is.
Both screenwriters Craig Mazin http://artfulwriter.com/?p=1018 and John August http://johnaugust.com/archives/2009/how-scriptshadow-hurts-screenwriters http://johnaugust.com/archives/2009/how-scriptshadow-hurts-screenwriters
have discussed this topic at great length. It seems the cons outweight the pros.
As an A-list writer myself, I am somewhat pissed off -- mainly because my scripts for both "E.T. II" and "The Blind Brown Saints of Bergen-Belsen" have been leaked before they were given the Meisner final polish. Will I sue? Can I sue? Is this guy going to cost me an Oscar by leaking the plot of "The Blind Brown Saints of Bergen-Belsen"? Only my attorney can answer that...
Brett
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