God Save Me

[handful_ofdust]

Today, in my TV Scriptwriting class, I discovered that honest-but-not-exactly-fluent Sam Wang from Taiwan has--all this time--thought that what I was asking him for was not a document CALLED a "bible" which outlined everything people needed to know about a TV show he'd created but some sort of pitch for a TV show BASED ON the Bible. Like, the Christian Bible. All this fucking time.

You see, the thing about this is, I like Sam a lot. He really tries, as opposed to that Korean guy in my Canadian Film History/Short Screenplay class, whose work (I'd love to say to his smug little face, one of these days) would be pretty much total ass even if he could speak English. But man...this last, above, just took me aback in an almost physical way. All I could say was: "No, that's NOT what I mean. At all. Never in my life would that have been what I meant, for God's sake, though not for God's sake. I mean, Jesus!"

And now I need to pay some bills and go to sleep, so I might actually be able to do work tomorrow--in between the running and the laundry and the re-reading of Barnyard Banter, and all. Man!

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[ardent-muses.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. That would maybe make a difference. :(

::tries to imagine you assigning The Greatest Story Ever Told::::

::::laughs (in a sympathetic way):::

Hope things are going well. Barnyard Banter sounds like a page turner. :)

[serialkeller.livejournal.com]

Am i a truly horrible person for giggling a little at that?

It's just, the image of this guy, struggling to understand stuff anyway being like "oh, great. Now she's making me write a show about the Bible. Where do i start? who can we pitch this to??"

oh my.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Um - how did you find this out finally - did he hand in an Old Testament script? And if so, was it any good?

Actually Judges would probably make a good soap/crime drama, sort of like The Sopranos but set in Judea rather than New Jersey.

[marinwood.livejournal.com]

Never in my life would that have been what I meant, for God's sake, though not for God's sake. I mean, Jesus!

Now that's funny!

I'm curious - did he actually hand something in? If so, was it Old or New?

Hey, all:

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Wow, there really is something wrong with LJ's "comments" function, isn't there? Because I never got word of any of these.

At any rate...no, he didn't turn in a Biblical script, or even a Biblical pitch. He just came up to me at the end of class, looking earnest and a tad desperate, and let it all spill out. Considering how Goddamn difficult it had been to get him to write a spec episode pitch for somebody else's TV show, I'm glad he decided to get this question out of the way ASAP, though--we're only four weeks away from the end of term.

Sarah: Tell me more about Judges! It sounds fascinating, and possibly even salable.;)

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

That portion of the Old Testament that never gets talked about in Sunday school. I can only assume most of the stuff in it got into the current edit of the Bible as examples of what one shouldn't be doing.
It'd make for exciting tv, though - one of the parts that stuck with me involved a left-handed guy being used for a political assassination because the guards weren't likely to check the right side of anyone's body for a concealed weapon...

Also, one of the few good-guys is a woman named Deborah who was far as I can tell through the King James version was a female prophet and military leader (?), thereby redeeming the name from cheerleader cuteness in my mind. She's also counted as one of the titular Judges of Israel, so maybe if you did a series she could be the crime-solving central character...
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