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"I wanted to be politically correct. I had E.T. and Close Encounters and we have Independence Day, so we made the aliens inter-dimensional. It's PC"

Mister "S", you altered work based on a guilt trip in the biz. Please, next time you make a flick, don't try to be politically correct, because you are shorting your audience, they are not that stupid! Instead, be a creative artist and go with what works. The inter-dimensional string theory was way, way out there and actually quite unbelievable. Had they been Zetas who traveled from a distant star, that would have been much better. In addition, I remember when you guys forced the "Dark Skies" people at Columbia Pictures and NBC to shy away from "MIB's" because of your movie. It was you bullying of them that made the series shy from the topic of MIB's within the series. Just so you could make your movie profits at the time, you helped kill that series and shorted viewers. Again, if it works use it, and stop trying to be nice to others before you with "That's already been done." It is that type of thinking that stifles and kills great stories.

I say, so what if it has been done before? If it works use it, and if it does not work, then change it to work. But don't, I repeat, do not short the audience with alternative garbage when you can deliver better, and you are not the only one doing this, as that brings me to my point of why Hollywood is committing suicide.

The original artistic bent to rewrite, rewrite and rewrite just to be politically correct in production storytelling is pure rubbish that pervades this entire industry, stinks to high heaven and turns my movie viewing stomach along with 12 dollar popcorn. It is time that if a certain aspect of the story has been told before, but works, then use it and stop trying to be wimps when you can be story-lions, otherwise you are shortchanging your audiences and they are smart enough to know this.

American Author, Poet, Songwriter and Filmwriter
"Mark Paul" Sebar
The Power To Write The Best!