A Writer’s Day
August 21st, 2014 | Published in Dark Tales, Horror, Reviews, Writer and Research
A Writer’s Day
Being a serious fiction writer means that you to have engage in research. I regularly read, watch and study the works and craft of other artists.
Today I watched Begin Again. The tale of promising musician, Greta, playing muse to boyfriend and rising star, David who betrays her, and not the kind of film I usually watch. Being a Keira Knightly fan I expected this film would deliver and it did.
From the film’s opening it sustains interest and even though this is a feel-good film it isn’t predictable and doesn’t disappoint with clichés. One of its features is that it’s critical of corporate music publishing, but takes a fresh approach to how a promising singer becomes a star.
The film is critical of the corporate music world showing it to be out-of-touch with artists and only interested in the bottom line. One of its key ideas is how a group of musicians working collaboratively and not simply for money or fame is able to subvert the corporate model.
After the film I bought the following movies to watch as part of my writer research work: Cujo, Midnight Lace and Twist.
