People need to find out the hard way that making any type of creative thing is...well...it takes a lot of effort. Which is why when in a collaborative effort, things seem so mind-boggling easy when others pick up your slack.
This shitbag in me is looking forward, every time, when people take credit for things they haven't done to struggle massively to get anything done. Yeah, spiteful and childish to wish for the colossal failure of some. But the learning curve requires that you force yourself into this endeavor, if you've ever cared.
Making films is not like...just show up and tell people shit and it's done. Well, sometimes it is. Like blockbuster movies. The two guys who got booted from the solo Han Solo movie probably thought they had an idea or two. Midway through, Ron Opie Cunningham Howard is now warming up the Disney chair. See, if you started out as a paperweight with a bullhorn...chances are you don't know any better. Let's say you do. You get the brass ring up front. Helm a massive movie and it becomes a runaway hit. Your ego will brush off all those ideas you had and attempt to make your personal stories. Fine. Only reason you did the blockbuster.
But here goes, and nothing changes...mind you...the vengeful part after being told "there are some things he gives me that you don't and things you give me that he doesn't" is going to be re-translated once realized how spectacularly deficient some people are at putting together projects. Or getting projects made. There are too many variables people don't consider. And, let's be real here...if we're speaking about deficiencies...sure a hit to the ego to realize my contribution was just a role and not the steam engine, I look forward to seeing the product of someone who seems to believe that my involvement wasn't as great as I had thought.
But...like waving a candle in front of a caveman, I guess some people will just have to settle now.
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