Reminder that the novel is dead and screenplays are the only valid form of creative writing in the 21st century

Reminder that the novel is dead and screenplays are the only valid form of creative writing in the 21st century.

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You know, I wanted to roll my eyes at this. Seriously, I did but after some consideration I find this to be a really interesting concept. Here's your (you).

>the novel is dead
Incisive and correct. Few know this!
>and screenplays are the only valid form of creative writing in the 21st century.
Yikes and retarded. Really can’t say more than that because it repulses me so viscerally that I’ll just froth incoherently. Scriptwriting is utilitarian and blue collar.
Poetry is the supreme form of literature today and always.

Screenplays are great to read because they cut out the fat from regular prose and give much more pure story.

I love watching movies, but writing them is another story: you just have to cut a lot of material and basically guillotine most of the rhetorical flights and figures of speech. It's very rare for you to get away with writing movies like Sweet Smell of Success, Network and Les Enfants du Paradis. When considering drama, if you really want to write poetry and memorable dialogue it is best to go for the theater. Cinema, although spoken, is a visual genre, whereas in theater the spoken word is still supreme. When you write passages that sound very poetic in a screenplay, or when you try something like psychological monologues in the vein of Shakespeare most of the senior revisers and other screenwriters will cut the material with a red pen and say, "Put your feet on solid ground and get your head out of the clouds, kid. Do you wanna get drunk on sunlight? You are stinking of ozone, there where no one lives. We live in the world of urban smoke and electric light, we live in a world were most people talk simply and directly. You want to win the Nobel Prize, eh? Wake up! We have no room here for stars other than the actors."

Of course, if you live far from centers like London and New York, the chances of you standing out globally with the theater are slim.

t. work in Hollywood writing screenplays

Also, I don't think novels are dead. No movie or series that has adapted War and Peace has ever captured what Tolstoy does on paper, which is a constant reference to what characters are feeling or thinking, what their perceptions of the environment and the people around them are, and in general thousands of mental micro details, especially of one person's influence on another person's mind.

>the novel is dead
Correct.
>screenplays are the only valid form of creative writing in the 21st century
Incorrect.
>Poetry is the supreme form of literature today
Incorrect.

The current forefront of literature is YouTube lecture series.

Dialog sucks and actions speak louder which is why movies are awesome. Why tell when you can show?

Some dialogue does far more than tell. The greatest moments of Shakespeare are valuable for several things, but they could stand alone even for their beauty alone.

>Dialog sucks and actions speak louder which is why movies are awesome.

You sound like a Marvel fan

In autism there is commonly a strong preference for the visual and the straightforward, and a powerful aversion to social exchanges, language in general, and abstract thinking.