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

[@solidsnake58]

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

[@solidsnake58]

@@redcomet0079 I’m joking about Adaptation 😉

[@Vivi_9]

I need scissors! 61!

[@ethanromm5323]

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

[@ApostleMan222]

RIP Donald. What could have been.

[@jakfan09]

Donald is so good with structure!

[@xam.yo.3943]

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

[@despotz]

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

[@andrewamundson157]

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

[@lampad4549]

And make career and millions of dollars for all these writers.

[@danielbarrero2815]

Love him!! Genius and a kind soul

[@fartsy1287]

Genus

[@T1000-s6l]

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

[@lordviksta]

Start at adaptation

[@xam.yo.3943]

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

[@JoseChung1]

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]

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

[@berkeskaya]

@@debrachambers1304 In true Kaufman fashion

[@sianspherica]

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

[@nosouponhead]

Well, he's wrong on this.

[@AnjektusStudio]

​@@nosouponheadSo! 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.

[@nosouponhead]

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

[@AnjektusStudio]

@@nosouponhead 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.]

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

[@bennettsolomon2881]

Legendary man. What a gift.

[@Technique1995]

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

[@berkeskaya]

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

[@waffletube5707]

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

[@aldiergreen]

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

[@google-is-a-stupid-piece-o2543]

He has asperger's.

[@greenbeans6253]

well said

[@dwaynesbadchemicals]

Kudos to a bs channel like Variety to give voice to a true artist.

[@privateprivate1865]

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

[@typhoonthunder]

PREACH KAUFMAN PREACH

[@joshsawyerstreamvods]

the goat

[@briansimerl4014]

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

[@dumpsta-divrr365]

I love this man

[@nihalh7601]

he should learn a thing or two about structure from his mom and his brother.

[@imfa-cinema257]

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.

[@partytrumpet]

Tarantino and Kaufman are both great

[@barbarahourigan8462]

…very sad…

[@nunyanunya4147]

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]

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

[@nalday2534]

okay bootlicker

[@etagged]

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

[@mostly_water]

Exactly what are you in favor of here

[@etagged]

@@mostly_water Please rephrase

[@bennyjones1502]

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]

​@@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]

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

[@moe-nl9sf]

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]

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

[@corpsefoot758]

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

[@j.goebbels2134]

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.

[@squamish4244]

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]

It's called reality

[@Lalo-dh8xq]

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

[@aidanjulian]

Not nihilistic, just honest.

[@freddysamjacob363]

it's one of the greatest films ever made

[@squamish4244]

@@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.

[@johnnysparkle]

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

[@nalday2534]

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

[@MakeMePotatos]

meaning 98% of them you idiot?

[@pimp_floyd5024]

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

[@corpsefoot758]

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

[@rsmith4407]

They are freelance.

[@melvinjohnson7033]

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

[@JoseChung1]

Oh good, Mr. Edgy Comment is here.

[@nalday2534]

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

[@rickytrottier5505]

@@JoseChung1 Morons are gonna moron.

[@corpsefoot758]

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]

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.