And That's Where I Come In

A merging of values within Hollywood. It's the blogosphere calling for it, not the studios...yet. But they'll start, as they need to make dough.

This goes way down to even the film school level, which are essentially a training ground for studios, especially the big ones, USC, UCLA, NYU, AFI, and Columbia. When I was interviewing for NYU and was asked to pitch a movie idea, I started pitching a spy movie about a Pakistani intelligence officer with terrorist ties. Now, the movie pitch sucked, I can't deny that, but one of the comments by the interviewers stuck with me.

"Don't you think it's kind of obvious to make the bad-guy a Muslim terrorist?"

Well, yeaaah.

So now I'm at USC.