Advice on Becoming a Filmmaker [Requested Video]
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Summary
In this episode, I discuss how to go from not knowing a thing about anything to making your own bloody movies. I break it down into 8 bullet points: 1. Don t fall into the city of broken dreams. 2. Do you like making movies? 3. Is it something you enjoy doing? 4. Are you good at it? 5. Can you do it? 6. What do you like to do? 7. What does it take to make a bloody movie? 8. How do you know if you like it? 9. What is your favorite kind of movie? 10. What are your favorite types of movies? 11. What's your favorite type of movie to make? 12. How to become a filmmaker?
Transcript
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So the topic of this requested video is how to become a filmmaker.
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How to go from not knowing, well, anything, not having any professional experience whatsoever,
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And I've broken this down into eight bullet points.
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And we're going to start off with a really, really negative one.
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So, number one, to become a filmmaker, do not try and become a Hollywood filmmaker.
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Now listen, my colleague, Delicious Tacos, longtime writer in the Manosphere, has done extensive
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work in Hollywood, and he has written several articles about how broken and nepotistic Hollywood
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And I really can't do any better justification to this whole concept than just to link to
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That even if you do get into Hollywood, you're going to be in Hollywood doing something you
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You know, if you like horror movies, you'll be doing comedies.
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If you like comedies, you'll be doing romance movies.
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If you like romance, you'll be doing action movies, etc.
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Hollywood is a terrible, terrible, terrible machine.
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And the fact that anything good ever gets made is a miracle with that machine.
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Asking, how do you become successful in Hollywood is like saying, how do you become a successful
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And again, with rare exceptions, the way you become a successful lawyer is you get born
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into the right family and you know the right people.
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If you don't already know the right people, you are not going to be successful in Hollywood.
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Now that said, it doesn't mean you can't be a filmmaker and even a successful filmmaker.
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It's just that the Hollywood model is very much atrophying, in my opinion.
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If you go out there as a hopeful to try and become part of it, you'll get eaten alive.
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But if, you know, if you get an opportunity, go for it.
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But stick to, stick to being successful by your standards.
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So that's a, be very wary of Hollywood is the number one point that I needed to make.
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You know, there's a certain issue of people wanting to be something instead of doing something.
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You know, and this is, this is a constant issue with human beings.
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You know, people want to be Roosh, for example.
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You know, and Roosh, he has all these books he publishes and people respect him, etc.
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But to become Roosh meant going to the bar and practicing and approaching girls in public
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and taking notes and then sitting down for hours and hours and hours by himself and writing
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Do you want to, is this, do you want to be this thing or do you want to do this thing?
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Now, when it comes to something as specific as making film, you know, the best analogy
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Now, riding a motorcycle, if you've never ridden one before, sounds great.
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You look cool, you have a leather jacket, you've got the open road, the girls love it.
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Some people just really hate riding motorcycles.
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You get the wind in your ear, you get bugs hitting you in the face, you get gravel, you
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And some people just, they buy a motorcycle and they're good at it and they're not pussies
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But they get in and they're like, you know what?
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I kind of like my car with the air conditioning where I get to listen to music, etc.
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And so for first-time bikers, you know, this is one of the reasons as a first-time biker
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Because you might find out that you don't like biking.
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You know, making a movie is like planning a goddamn wedding every single day.
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It's one of the highest-stress businesses out there.
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And you know, like myself, I've got an eye for photography.
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But then do you want to do that professionally?
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Listen, playing your guitar or playing your saxophone can be a lot of fun.
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Being in a band, being in a professional band, not just a hobby band,
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And, you know, the professional musicians I know,
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but being a professional athlete means busting your hump to do that.
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but actually obsessing and getting hangovers and drinking so much
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So you have to figure out whether or not you like making movies.
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or you might find out you just want to do it as a hobby.
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Okay, his films are these stupid fucking riddles.
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I really admire what he has done as a cinematographer.