RinkWorks: Stupid Emails: Bright Monkeys and Bell Curves

360. Bright Monkeys and Bell Curves

To:  <sam@rinkworks.com>
Subject:  Read about your site in "screenwriting" by ray frensham
Date:  Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:20:06 -0600

Ray Frensham's paperback, Screenwriting 1996, 2003, mentions your
website. in the "Teach Yourself" series of books.

Website Review.
OK. so I look at your site.  OK.
I've seen many many many many many more movies than you have seen
because I'm, well, I'm many many many years older. relatively speaking.

Hmm?  I got Ray's point, on p 52,chapter 4.  Hope you will find more
actual depth in films in future reviews.  Realize, please, your era of
existence comes through, which actually seems to show a very
response-limited humanity.

Current bifurcations of the real world between haves and havenots do not
fall on any real lines except a lack of intelligence.   i.e.. Although,
for example, SAT's, ACT's change and become harder (more difficult as
events, time, change occurs) the effort is to fit all bright monkeys
under the bell curve.  The idea of forcing a mathematically statistical
interpretation upon all humanity simply demonstrates our splitting all
into positive and negative statistical increments, and it limits even
our perception of ourselves and our works.
That is, half the people are smart, lucky, better than average, and half
are dumb, unlucky, less than average.

Many of the films you have reviewed and described are a whole lot more
complicated than rendered.  Sure, I can see a resemblance or a minor
perspective of the content.  And the fact that most of us are alive has
to do with actual content of science, not of emotional interactions with
the world.  Survival for a short span requires a more than superficial
dalliance in the real world with real things; and some of those are
devastating.

    Can you actually believe half of the country voted for Bush?  Do you
realize how long it will take to undo the damage both recent democratic
and republican administrations have done.  The US may not ever fully
recover, but suffice it to say that the sob's got theirs, but not their
just deserts.

Why don't you condense the last 10 years of American politics into your
movie reviews. . ?

enjoyed you website.

I don't know what the guy's talking about. I haven't seen the book he mentions in the coherent part of this email. But it would crack me up if the feature he's talking about is Movie-A-Minute.