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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Silence is not golden

The striking Writer's Guild of America has effectively rubbed the shine off the 65th Golden Globes Award where the ceremony was lackluster at best. Without actors and actresses, without the red carpet ceremony and without the usual witty repertoire that accompanies the presentations, the Globes this year failed to sparkle. It just showed how powerful a force the writers are behind every production on television. The pen is definitely mightier than the sword, and in this case its more of the lack of the pen that killed the show. Therein lies the power of not writing and keeping silent.

On a side note, Atonement picked up two awards which were for the best motion picture and the best original score. Now the question we should all ask is: Can Atonement make it to the Oscars?

7 comments:

joshua said...

here ye here ye!!!

I am so enraged that I don't have any new episodes of Grey's Anatomy/Gossip Girl/Scrubs to watch!!! Waaaahhhh

But yeah, definitely the writers deserved better returns.

Medie007 said...

ooo... i dun read... just put into movie, and tell me it's from a book. :P

Zyklon22 said...

Josh: They definitely do since the actors and actresses get all the fame.

AB: We're talking bout script writers in this sense not novelists.

savante said...

So tragic for the guys who won this year! I mean all they got was... a trophy and zilch. Poor things.

Zyklon22 said...

LOL. And they had to pretend to not care too. Look at what Marion who got best actress for a motion picture or drama said.

ikanbilis said...

i'm confused. why will there still be Screen Actors Guild Award?


I love Atonement. its rich... simply brilliant!!!

Zyklon22 said...

The Writers Guild of America has issued a waiver for writers to allow them to write for the SAG award. I think it's because the SAG supported the WGA in their strike so far.