{"id":1884,"date":"2009-03-16T17:41:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T22:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/bad-movie-bad-script\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T17:41:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T22:41:13","slug":"bad-movie-bad-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/bad-movie-bad-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad movie, bad script?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We award \u00e2\u20ac\u0153best screenplay\u00e2\u20ac\u009d based on a viewing of the finished film. If the movie was good, we figure the screenplay was probably pretty good. [&#8230;] Worse, we also presume that a bad movie came from a bad screenplay. At some point, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll fund a comprehensive study of film reviews from the past 10 years, tracking exactly how many times the film\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s screenwriter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name is mentioned. My gut tells me that the writer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name is three-to-four times more likely to be mentioned in a negative review than a positive one. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d love to see data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I&rsquo;d love to see the data too.<\/p>\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/johnaugust.com\/archives\/2009\/show-your-work\">blog of John August<\/a>, screenwriter\/director.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We award \u00e2\u20ac\u0153best screenplay\u00e2\u20ac\u009d based on a viewing of the finished film. If the movie was good, we figure the screenplay was probably pretty good. [&#8230;] Worse, we also presume that a bad movie came from a bad screenplay. At some point, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll fund a comprehensive study of film reviews from the past 10 years,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/bad-movie-bad-script\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bad movie, bad script?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}