Sunday, June 13, 2010

Good for the Environment

The next time I read a v.o. of the phrase "That's me" I will beat the living smack out of a tree.

You wouldn't hurt a tree, would you?

This was played out by the time 'An American in Paris' came out and even they upped its originality by first showing someone else's face. Fifty odd years later it still needs something else to make it work.

This has been used in some good scripts, but it's also abused in a metric ton of bad ones. Tread carefully here and remember:

When in doubt cut it out.