The Writer Is Missing
Letter writer Sita Stulberg (Calendar Letters, June 29) lives on another planet. She says: “Without the writer and his/her imagination and expertise, there is no movie. No film industry. No story for the actors to act, director to direct or filmmakers to fund.” She’s dead wrong. Good writing is missing badly from the industry.
Just look at Calendar any Friday, Memorial Day to Labor Day. All the big films are made around making money: box-office marquees, bankable stars and major money behind the marketing campaigns. How many of these stars work with horrible scripts just for bucks when the movie is only for video exploitation? How many people have rented and regretted these dogs? How many “new” films are simply remakes of proven money in the past?
Banter and boredom dominate any film made for baby boomers. Read the reviews. Scripts and writing don’t sell movies, period.
HAL JEPSEN
Carlsbad
Only good movies
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