| Saturday, December 4, 2004 |
00:45 - Setting myself up for disappointment
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Okay, this is an open message directed to the dialogue writers currently supplying Hollywood and facsimiles thereof.
Henceforth, I wish never to hear any of the following phrases, ever again. Ever:
"That's gotta hurt!"
"That's gonna leave a mark!"
"That's not right!"
Or its cousin...
"That's just wrong!"
These are the writer's equivalent of saying "Uhhhhh...." and they invariably drag down the quality of any otherwise enjoyable work in which they appear. Each of these tells the audience that the writers don't respect them enough to bother to come up with an original line to use to punctuate some shocking, raucous, or lurid scene that demands some kind of pithy incisive observational comment before it's declared complete. Any writer using one of these phrases should be fined five comedy demerits and/or sent to Remedial One-liner School for three 8-hour evening courses.
Thank you.
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Brian Tiemann
