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The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain

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Banana Republic

Seishirō Itagaki

This I assume is some of your "more recent fiction writing" ?

A complete mystery thriller novel encapsulated within a single word? Brilliant. Breathtaking. A work of genius.

I was going to suggest to you a sequel called;

Where?

But shit, I've gone and done it. I've gone and written the entire 2nd novel for you!

How?

Blimey, I've done it again... written your trilogy.

Yes, but you were under the threat of explosive bat attack from the Imperial Japanese Army at the time.

Nowadays, in the 21st century it is considered correct and honorable (good practice and decent protocol) to cite your sources when you quote researched material within your publication.

Throw your garbled thesaurus sourced insults and play the superior intellectual bully as much as you like. I'm dumb and your intellect holds no sway over me. In fact it makes you look to me like a ridiculous figure of fun.

Now then, you authoritatively stated here that the movie 'Edge of Tomorrow' failed entirely and specifically because of the script.

I say that it did not fail because of the script and in support of that opinion I give you an entire Internet's worth of evidence.

Would you please show us the evidence to back up your 'say so' statement that the script is considered responsible for the slow audience take up of this movie?

Thanks in advance.

If you have no evidence just say it. People make shit up to suit their purpose all of the time. Because, as Abraham Lincoln is reported to have said; ‘You can fool most of the people most of the time...’

If this movie failed to meet the expectations of the industry during its opening run, explicitly and entirely due to a poor script as you state within your reply to the opener of this thread, then there would be specific references to issues regarding the problem script of ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ plastered all over the Internet from here to eternity.

There is not.   

One can listen to the script as it is performed within the movie and it doesn't sound bad at all. One can download the script in PDF format and it doesn't read badly.     

I think you are a bullshit artist whose first instinct it is to make up a lie in order to support your opinion or agenda via exerting a manipulating influence upon people you consider to be inferior and dumb.  Many people in this world don’t care and are happy to suck up to any outrageous bullshit they are fed, take it as law. Truth fabrication; it was the trade of Joseph Goebbels, has been the trade of religions since the first bullshitter was born and is the principle by which governments, politicians, corporates, the news media, public relations organisations, marketing organisations and independent narcissistic individuals thrive. It is their principle material, their stock in trade.

I’m not your patsy, Charles. You need to understand that. I am not most of the people most of the time. I am simply a deteriorating dog soldier with shrapnel in my head where the sense should be. I close my eyes and I can taste blood and cordite. I hear screams and my head swims in a vile swirl of betrayal, treachery and injustice that has consumed most of my life and all of my soul. I have come to know there are but a few true human values or virtues. These are honesty, honour, kindness and loyalty and they are the only things that make life worthwhile. Without truth where are we? We are lost and truth is becoming rarer and more suppressed than ever. It is routinely disguised and destroyed just like ISIS dynamites the Temple of Bel ruins in Palmyra because the truth of it doesn’t fit the fiction of their religion.

I am many things and most of them wanting or substandard and to many I am considered dumb. That is, as it may be, but please remember that I’m not your patsy.

The sad thing is that if you had a genuine point to make, with a little effort you could have dug up and cited plenty of real-life examples where a poor script is actually reported to have ruined a movie. Instead of that you instinctively troop out an untruth. For convenience sake you swap real-life for a real lie. But what was once called propaganda has been refurbished. It has endured a makeover and is called ‘spin’ nowadays. Spin is a precious and highly regarded and rewarded modern day skill.

You would have me look like a fool, an inferior, and this for using the Internet for research. For using Google in order to check facts and thereby uncover your lie. 

Good for you. Hail the Spinmiester. You are perfectly equipped for this modern society and will thrive. Perfectly dishonourable.

Me, I’m in the beleaguered and despised minority and I’m finished. I know that. I’m sure that you and yours will see to that. But I’m still not your patsy.

Nice job! Number 2 looks best to me.

Hold on Charles, you should be yelling at Warner Bros rather than me, because given the success of the movie, its popularity with both critics and audiences and the huge profit that it made for the studio and its backers and bankers, they have announced the production of a sequel.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter … 75176.html

I don’t think that they’d bother with developing a franchise if the movie was the flop that you insist it was.

As you mention again and again, the movie suffered a slow start in US theatres upon its release. However this did not prove to be a pattern and the movie recovered to become very popular and very profitable. The reason the release was slow seems be unclear to the industry and most theories that I can find upon the subject suggest the publicity and marketing were poor and the ambiguous title 'Edge of Tomorrow' failed to evoke interest. This was addressed by the addition of a tag-line title 'Live, die, Repeat.' There are other theories that point toward an anti-Tom Cruise effect but you state the following;

It can’t find the quality of the script being attributed to the movie’s poor release performance anywhere on-line? Several other reasons are suggested but I can’t find anyone from the media or movie industry blaming bad scriptwriting for the poor initial audience figures?

I’m very interested in your revelation that it was actually (and entirely) the script which killed this film upon its release. I saw the film at the cinema with my son when it was released a couple of years ago in the UK. Given this renewed interest I watched the movie again on Amazon Prime tonight and thought the script was okay. There were a couple of lines I thought were a bit cheesy but no more than any other movie that I’ve seen recently. I watched this evening with my family and both my son (14 yrs) and daughter (18 yrs) loved the film. My wife hated it, but she is French and hates everything filmed in colour that is not directed by Claude Chabrol, René Clément or Jean Cocteau. She also thought that the France scenes, especially those set in Musée du Louvre looked fake, as if they’d been filmed in a studio down the road in Watford (which they were).

Would you be so kind as to share the source of the article which identifies the script as the reason the movie suffered a slow audience take-up ?

Oh, and apparently the wildly inaccurate and irrelevant 'Standard' for measuring movie success that you chose to religiously adhere to is from the ‘box office receipts only’ world of the 1950's and is more akin to popcorn sales. It doesn't take into account the 21st century and the money that movie media makes in theatres outside of the US, and the DVD sales along with TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime and ITunes etc. media outlets. To the film studios, backers and bankers the standard by which a movie’s success is measured nowadays is in dollars of profit. Money in the bank. $392 million and counting, in the bank, in this case.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5881236/the-way- … ely-broken