Charlie Kaufman Thinks It’s “Disgusting” That Studios Won’t Pay the .026% Fee for Writers

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  • Опубликовано: 14 май 2024
  • Speaking at the Sarajevo Film Festival, Charlie Kaufman weighs in on the WGA strike regarding the dangers of AI on the Hollywood, why he thinks CEO’s are doing damage to the industry and why he made a short film with Samsung.
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  • @solidsnake58
    @solidsnake58 8 месяцев назад +385

    He’s just mad he’ll never write a screenplay as good as his brother. The 3 is a masterpiece.

    • @solidsnake58
      @solidsnake58 8 месяцев назад +56

      @@redcomet0079 I’m joking about Adaptation 😉

    • @Vivi_9
      @Vivi_9 8 месяцев назад +3

      I need scissors! 61!

    • @ethanromm5323
      @ethanromm5323 8 месяцев назад +32

      Donald Kaufman, one of the great auteurs of our time.

    • @ApostleMan222
      @ApostleMan222 8 месяцев назад +18

      RIP Donald. What could have been.

    • @jakfan09
      @jakfan09 8 месяцев назад +19

      Donald is so good with structure!

  • @xam.yo.3943
    @xam.yo.3943 8 месяцев назад +76

    Kaufman is just my favorite screenwriter ever
    Love this person so much

  • @andrewamundson157
    @andrewamundson157 8 месяцев назад +26

    “Studio execs don’t do anything - well, they do damage.”

  • @danielbarrero2815
    @danielbarrero2815 8 месяцев назад +50

    Love him!! Genius and a kind soul

  • @despotz
    @despotz 8 месяцев назад +34

    mastermind Kaufman and also a great interviewer from variety, bravo!

  • @aldiergreen
    @aldiergreen 3 месяца назад +6

    Impressive how he's able to mantain eye contact with the floor

  • @berkeskaya
    @berkeskaya 8 месяцев назад +7

    “I really needed this idea that I am an asshole.” -Charlie Kaufman, 2023

  • @bennettsolomon2881
    @bennettsolomon2881 8 месяцев назад +9

    Legendary man. What a gift.

  • @sianspherica
    @sianspherica 8 месяцев назад +35

    The man who wrote the utter masterpiece that is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind I will always trust to be right

    • @senorpoodles1755
      @senorpoodles1755 8 месяцев назад +1

      Well, he's wrong on this.

    • @AnjektusStudio
      @AnjektusStudio 8 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@senorpoodles1755So! Let's hear. Why you think that he is wrong. What is your opinion. Well! I'm are of the opinion that a story never can be put together and have the same emotional impact when it are done by AI. And storys schould be told by people not by a computer.

    • @senorpoodles1755
      @senorpoodles1755 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@AnjektusStudio An AI would write a better comment than the broken English you wrote.

    • @AnjektusStudio
      @AnjektusStudio 8 месяцев назад

      @@senorpoodles1755 Well! Why not act like an adult that a child. As your comment are so foolish. But you are maybe getting high from being childish

    • @Largentina.
      @Largentina. 8 месяцев назад +12

      ​@@senorpoodles1755Are you going to give your opinion on why you think he's wrong?

  • @user-mg5cm4vs3m
    @user-mg5cm4vs3m 8 месяцев назад +33

    Very informative and interesting, I don't know Charlie's work but I am going to seek it out. Thank you.

    • @lordviksta
      @lordviksta 8 месяцев назад +2

      Start at adaptation

    • @xam.yo.3943
      @xam.yo.3943 8 месяцев назад +19

      Start with Being John Malkovich! Don't skip any movie, all of Kaufman's work has something great 👏

    • @JoseChung1
      @JoseChung1 8 месяцев назад +12

      I would start with Eternal Sunshine, his most commercially successful film. Won an Oscar for it, and the screenplay is consistently voted one of the best of all time.
      Then Adaptation.
      Then Malkovich.
      The rest are mostly excellent, but polarising.

    • @debrachambers1304
      @debrachambers1304 8 месяцев назад +11

      I love that the first 3 replies all tell you to start with a different movie

    • @berkeskaya
      @berkeskaya 8 месяцев назад +6

      @@debrachambers1304 In true Kaufman fashion

  • @Technique1995
    @Technique1995 3 месяца назад +2

    Cinema is dying, art is dead. Now not paying writers is more painful.

  • @greenbeans6253
    @greenbeans6253 3 месяца назад

    well said

  • @joshsawyerstreamvods
    @joshsawyerstreamvods 8 месяцев назад +3

    the goat

  • @waffletube5707
    @waffletube5707 7 месяцев назад +1

    I think he’s found his next film; A.I. 2: Artificial Intelligence 2

  • @typhoonthunder
    @typhoonthunder 8 месяцев назад +5

    PREACH KAUFMAN PREACH

  • @barbarahourigan8462
    @barbarahourigan8462 8 месяцев назад

    …very sad…

  • @briansimerl4014
    @briansimerl4014 5 месяцев назад

    Big Tech blackboxes the data. Like no soup for you.

  • @imfa-cinema257
    @imfa-cinema257 4 месяца назад +5

    To dumb people: "Tarantino is the best writer"
    To true cinephiles: "hands down its Charlie Kaufman"
    Synecdoche, New York is greatest film of all time, hands-down.

  • @privateprivate1865
    @privateprivate1865 Месяц назад

    Ai is worse than the end of creativity..
    Its the end of peace

  • @nunyanunya4147
    @nunyanunya4147 8 месяцев назад +9

    movies are failing due to 1) over reliance on CGI 2) pandering to EVERY minor demographic 3) no new ideas just steal from the producer's child hood. 4) lacking storyline (see 1 3 and 2 ) 5) over saturation with peacock. hulo, netflix,amazon, disney+...... ad nosium.
    SURE blame the writers.

  • @cornishsea
    @cornishsea 8 месяцев назад

    😂 "learn to code" or retrain as school drama teacher 🤔

    • @nalday2534
      @nalday2534 8 месяцев назад

      okay bootlicker

  • @etagged
    @etagged 7 месяцев назад

    Why should the human experience be protected? If it’s so great can’t it fend for itself?

    • @danirabinowitz5049
      @danirabinowitz5049 6 месяцев назад +8

      Exactly what are you in favor of here

    • @etagged
      @etagged 6 месяцев назад

      @@danirabinowitz5049 Please rephrase

    • @bennyjones1502
      @bennyjones1502 5 месяцев назад +1

      Isn’t this interview an (albeit small) act of defending the human experience? Maybe what you said was intended to be a joke, but I think that there are many precious things that must be protected by other precious things. Oftentimes that protective instinct is called “empathy”, which I’ve been told is good to have.

    • @etagged
      @etagged 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@bennyjones1502 Without resorting to an abstraction about "precious things", the human experience is quite a robust phenomenon, not a waif. What we're really being asked to defend here is the ability of a minority of adult humans to make their desired living from writing about the human experience. This is in the context of the internet and highly efficient, low cost channels capable of distributing and democratizing media. Also, note that for much of the history of the internet many individuals were happy to share their content merely to express themselves and weren't using it as a stepping stone to make a 6 figure salary.
      I merely object to the sleight of hand of equating writing scripts for Hollywood and other large production conglomerates to the "universal human experience". Ask for people to increase your wealth because you deserve it, not by unfairly guilt tripping them.

  • @adonisds
    @adonisds 8 месяцев назад +3

    Charlie used to be my favorite living filmmaker, but is the past few years what he's done is mostly whine

    • @moe-nl9sf
      @moe-nl9sf 8 месяцев назад +26

      He’s criticizing what needs to be criticized. Change doesn’t come from just putting up with shit, it comes from taking a stand and calling for change.

    • @adonisds
      @adonisds 8 месяцев назад

      @@moe-nl9sf He's a millionaire asking for more money. There are almost a billion people living with less than $2 per day.

    • @corpsefoot758
      @corpsefoot758 8 месяцев назад +14

      That’s funny, because all I hear in this comment is whining 🤔

    • @j.goebbels2134
      @j.goebbels2134 3 месяца назад

      He got boxed out for some reason. After Synecdoche, which is a masterpeice. Probably because it only made 13 million. So he is now an Oscar-winner doing odd jobs.

  • @johnnysparkle
    @johnnysparkle 8 месяцев назад

    The studios should just fire the writers on strike to begin with

    • @nalday2534
      @nalday2534 8 месяцев назад +30

      and let an ai make their garbage inhumane products isnt that right enemy of art?

    • @MakeMePotatos
      @MakeMePotatos 8 месяцев назад

      meaning 98% of them you idiot?

    • @pimp_floyd5024
      @pimp_floyd5024 8 месяцев назад

      My man, why aren’t you running Hollywood? With the intellectual advantage you clearly have over everyone, why not just take over?

    • @corpsefoot758
      @corpsefoot758 8 месяцев назад

      Nah, the fatfaced execs should fire themselves
      Stop fellating that boot leather

    • @rsmith4407
      @rsmith4407 6 месяцев назад

      They are freelance.

  • @squamish4244
    @squamish4244 8 месяцев назад +1

    After watching "I'm Thinking of Ending Things", while I agree with Kaufman, I also think everyone should be getting paid decently *but* him. What the f*ck was that piece of nihilistic crap?

    • @EdWard-ie5wn
      @EdWard-ie5wn 8 месяцев назад +15

      It's called reality

    • @Lalo-dh8xq
      @Lalo-dh8xq 8 месяцев назад +34

      So you think artist who made a piece of art you didn't enjoy don't deserve to get paid?

    • @aidanjulian
      @aidanjulian 7 месяцев назад +8

      Not nihilistic, just honest.

    • @freddysamjacob363
      @freddysamjacob363 Месяц назад

      it's one of the greatest films ever made

    • @squamish4244
      @squamish4244 Месяц назад

      @@Lalo-dh8xqIt was a joke. I hated the film. Of course he should get paid. I also don't expect others to have the same opinion as me, but I am allowed to voice my my own.
      The bigger issue is what SORA and other text-to-video technology will be able to do. What we've seen now is just the tip of the iceberg and has huge implications for Hollywood.

  • @melvinjohnson7033
    @melvinjohnson7033 8 месяцев назад +2

    Are theses lazy union "writers/actors" still looking for a handout? Completely forgot about them and apparently so have the Hollywood studios.

    • @JoseChung1
      @JoseChung1 8 месяцев назад +64

      Oh good, Mr. Edgy Comment is here.

    • @nalday2534
      @nalday2534 8 месяцев назад +2

      those corporate fucks will not send you cheque for this amount of bootlicking, inhumane robot

    • @rickytrottier5505
      @rickytrottier5505 8 месяцев назад

      @@JoseChung1 Morons are gonna moron.

    • @corpsefoot758
      @corpsefoot758 8 месяцев назад +6

      They haven’t “forgotten” them you drooling doorknob, AMPTP has met with the unions to try renegotiating terms repeatedly
      Do you know how English works

    • @gabrielmoura5393
      @gabrielmoura5393 6 месяцев назад +8

      My favorite pastime for the last weeks is finding petty and small minded comments like this one and reminding myself that THE WRITERS WON THE STRIKE even though corporate minions like these were spewing this type of nonsense online.
      Thank you all. You just made it even sweeter for us.