On Matters of Interest » original http://roryparle.com Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:34:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Original? http://roryparle.com/2010/01/original/ http://roryparle.com/2010/01/original/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:12:05 +0000 Rory http://roryparle.com/?p=1073 Apparently the Writer’s Guild of America has nominated Avatar for an award for Best Original Screenplay. This is surprising news. I had no idea Avatar even had a screenplay. I thought James Cameron had just organized a big game of charades and Sam Worthington took three hours to mime Ferngully before anyone in the cast or crew was able to guess it.

Also, for reference, here’s a definition of “original”:

Fresh, different, pioneering

I do not think it means what they think it means.

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