tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post114710425087589942..comments2024-03-28T02:14:08.783-07:00Comments on THE MFA BLOG: Undergraduate TranscriptsTom Kealeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11913868167191023096noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-1147482300504832422006-05-12T18:05:00.000-07:002006-05-12T18:05:00.000-07:00If an MFA program looked down on screen writing to...If an MFA program looked down on screen writing to such an extent that they deny you admission because you took a couple of courses once . . . then that is a wacko program you want no part of. Futher (as a current MFA student who has just completed my first screenwriting course as an elective) I found that screenwriting teaches structure in a way that is often ignored in traditional fiction workshops.Jason Michael MacLeodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17285143369403892788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-1147454588505912532006-05-12T10:23:00.000-07:002006-05-12T10:23:00.000-07:00Right, right, I think I agree with the first comme...Right, right, I think I agree with the first commenter -- why a Crazy Cruise blockbuster and not, say, a Charlie Kaufmann or a Woody Allen movie? And I say Ch. K. because I don't want to sound too haughty, but hey, Fellini, Mikhalkov, and others are screenwriters that do, or should, command the kind of respect that great writers do! But I guess we're nit-picking here. LL was probably too lugubrious when writing his question -- I doubt that that is his official take on screenwriting in general; it seems it was his (lugubrious) worry about how the commmittee would read his transcripts :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15642985.post-1147451390666569162006-05-12T09:29:00.000-07:002006-05-12T09:29:00.000-07:00Niiiiiiice. Good to know that screenwriting = hopi...Niiiiiiice. Good to know that screenwriting = hoping for a Tom Cruise blockbuster. Just the laugh I needed to start my Friday! Thanks!<BR/>p.s. flame letter much?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com