Screenwriting isn't the same thing as poetry - it's certainly not the same thing as *written* poetry (as opposed to spoken word) A good line for the stage or the screen is not the same thing as a good line that still seems really cool and deep when written out in text
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In fact I would say that it's so hard to try to be subversive and deep on the page when your words are taken in isolation like that that poetry of necessity goes in and out of fashions
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Every generation develops a new set of tricks to try to escape the cliches of the previous generation that now make everything the old masters wrote look mawkish and overwrought Today's "patient etherized upon a table" is tomorrow's "O little fire-folk sitting on the stair!"
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Anyway this is me telling you, as someone who has a smidge of education in "real writers" and "real literature" and all that shit, to please just shut the fuck up
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I'm not sure I'd say "What is grief but love persevering?" is a *perfect* line but it's a very good line It does exactly what it needs to do in that scene and it gives the actor exactly what he needs
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And whatever smarter, cooler, deeper line you're imagining in its place almost certainly *would not work* and would be objectively bad, by virtue of calling attention to the writer's jadedness with "cliches" and insecure desperation to seem "subversive"
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(The best line I have ever personally heard about grief is not this line It's a line from something you've never heard of and it's just someone saying "Well... maybe he doesn't *want* to be happy")
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(By itself, it's not a very interesting line at all and *of course* the concept it's describing is extremely simple and obvious But as the final emotional beat in a scene it rattled me really hard I flash back to it when looking at my own self-sabotage all the time)
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The game of thrones books were written to have just this sort of deeply layering as part of GRRM’s effort to make it intentionally unfilmable. Part of why it’s not really surprising the adaptation came completely apart in the last three seasons.
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