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Please Help Me. How is America?

alicosgun

alicosgun

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Hello. I'm very curious, America. Please tell me you people?

1) People How many hours do they work?
2) Salaries how much?
3 -) Rents how much?
4 -) How can we work in Hollywood?
5) How can screenwriter?

Please respond,answer ... please.
I am writing to you and I want America to come to America.

and ı use Google Translate ı m sorry for bad sentences and excuse me...
 
Well, America is a very big country for starters. The first three questions are like asking how the weather is on Earth today.

As for questions 4 and 5, you work in Hollywood by getting a college diploma in media/film/business and you pay your dues. It's doubtful you'd become a screen writer with such poor English skills. Unless you get a job with Michael Bay. Besides, which such a high unemployment rate in the states, firms are reluctant to give foreigners the higher paying jobs. Best you get in on an educational visa and start taking some screenwriting and ESL courses.

Also, free iPod?
 
mmntech said:
Well, America is a very big country for starters. The first three questions are like asking how the weather is on Earth today.

As for questions 4 and 5, you work in Hollywood by getting a college diploma in media/film/business and you pay your dues. It's doubtful you'd become a screen writer with such poor English skills. Unless you get a job with Michael Bay. Besides, which such a high unemployment rate in the states, firms are reluctant to give foreigners the higher paying jobs. Best you get in on an educational visa and start taking some screenwriting and ESL courses.

Also, free iPod?
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Thank you for your answer. Nice to see people like you that help. I thank you.

I have another question. American Dream is a lie? So people on the number of hours they work? 12 o'clock? 6 o'clock? 8 o'clock?

Also, no, I'm using a desktop computer or a samsung phone.
 
alicosgun said:
Thank you for your answer. Nice to see people like you that help. I thank you.

I have another question. American Dream is a lie? So people on the number of hours they work? 12 o'clock? 6 o'clock? 8 o'clock?

Also, no, I'm using a desktop computer or a samsung phone.
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People work an average of 45-50 hours a week. The "standard" is usually 40 hours a week but the average seems to be higher. I'm not sure which part of the american dream you're referring to, but if you want to work hard enough you can be successful.
 
gorcorps said:
People work an average of 45-50 hours a week. The "standard" is usually 40 hours a week but the average seems to be higher. I'm not sure which part of the american dream you're referring to, but if you want to work hard enough you can be successful.
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thank you so much for answer...

I have 100-movie idea, I have more than 300 joke. But English is not and certificate. America is very expensive film courses.

How can I show myself that. All right, I understand. '' If there is no pain, no development. But, how we will present our ideas?
 
alicosgun said:
Hello. I'm very curious, America. Please tell me you people?

1) People How many hours do they work?
2) Salaries how much?
3 -) Rents how much?
4 -) How can we work in Hollywood?
5) How can screenwriter?

Please respond,answer ... please.
I am writing to you and I want America to come to America.

and ı use Google Translate ı m sorry for bad sentences and excuse me...
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This has got to be a troll attempt. Screenwriter in Hollywood? Seriously? No offense but I don't think you'd make it with your language skills.

Have you considered engineering?
 
IHateMyJob2004 said:
This has got to be a troll attempt. Screenwriter in Hollywood? Seriously? No offense but I don't think you'd make it with your language skills.

Have you considered engineering?
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Thx so much for answer... but ı m not a troll.

I accepted , ı m know my english realy bad but Film ideas, the film is unexplainable stories translated? using an interpreter?
 
alicosgun said:
thank you so much for answer...

I have 100-movie idea, I have more than 300 joke. But English is not and certificate. America is very expensive film courses.

How can I show myself that. All right, I understand. '' If there is no pain, no development. But, how we will present our ideas?
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The following is what I've gathered from my friends who work in said business:

Don't take this the wrong way, but there are a lot of people who think they have really brilliant writing ideas. Very few have ones that will actually work, and even fewer people ever get to make those into movies. No one will buy your script unless you've proven you do good work, and you can't prove you've done good work until you have a track record.

Getting into the Hollywood business requires a lot of hard work, talent, and (especially) dumb luck. You start by getting an internship where you get people coffee for no money. It sounds stupid, but it's where you have to start getting a reputation and track record. You hope that you catch someone's attention enough that they give you a minimum-wage job writing incredibly uninspiring drivel that you don't care about. You gradually move up the chain writing better and better things until you eventually have a job that isn't anything like the ideal you had before, but is reasonably satisfying and stable.
 
mmntech said:
Well, America is a very big country for starters. The first three questions are like asking how the weather is on Earth today.

As for questions 4 and 5, you work in Hollywood by getting a college diploma in media/film/business and you pay your dues. It's doubtful you'd become a screen writer with such poor English skills. Unless you get a job with Michael Bay. Besides, which such a high unemployment rate in the states, firms are reluctant to give foreigners the higher paying jobs. Best you get in on an educational visa and start taking some screenwriting and ESL courses.

Also, free iPod?
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Best answers you are ever going to get, OP.
 
Hollywood today is a handful of family dynasties, a few very talented people, and a few who are lousy but have dumb luck. Just look at M. Night Shyamalan. That guy is a horrible writer and his movies are god awful but he got very lucky with The Sixth Sense.

I lived in LA for a lot of years and the number of people there who are aspiring to be successful in that business is staggering. I think you're going to be in for a very rude awakening trying to pitch an idea with no language skills and no idea about our culture. My suggestion would be to give it a shot though. Learn English. Start building up a network of contacts. See if you can make it work. You'll never know unless you try.
 
1) Expect to work like a dog. You're going to be putting in 60-80 hours a week if you want to have a shot at putting food on your table and being a screenwriter.
2) No clue what you'll get paid. You will probably have another job and be working on this as a side project.
3 -) LA is giant city. There's a good part of Hollywood and a bad part. Plan on at least $1000 a month. You might be living somewhere else and driving to Hollywood. I imagine rent is cheaper out in the inland empire.
4 -) Learn English. Apply for a job that will give you a work visa. Then come over.
5) Go to school. Build up a network of contacts. Smooze. Be damn good.
 
The film business is the most sought-after, and the least merit-based I know of. In other words, you have very many people trying to get into the business. And people don't get in based on talent. You have to know someone, you have to be lucky. There are more talented people than there are jobs.

Consider Toronto Canada. It also has a huge film industry, you also have to be lucky, but there is less competition.
 
So, OP - doesn't your country have a domestic film industry? If you can make the movies in your language, etc., US filmmaker a will pay for the privilege of remaking them in English. Assuming they're any good.

The American dream is dead, btw. Just in case anybody hadn't gotten the memo.
 
When I was to three years since born, my family immigrated to the United States after escaping focused camps in Siberia. My father tell me never forget where we came from! and always honor George Washington. I'm trying to learn, want to become an actor in Hollywood. And now, this dream has come true! I've almost done. I'm turning tricks on Hollywood Boulevard for to pay for English lessons. My parents were very proud when I call and tell them. For me this American dream is fantasy which I take so soon, I know it!
 
America is what you make of it. If you decide on California, you're going to have to be on your game 24/7. There are millions of folks working on that same dream and the competition is intense. Americans from other states joke about California, but seriously, if you're a slacker don't bother coming. I don't live there because, quite frankly, I don't want to work that hard (plus people would die if I had to drive there every day).
 
When it comes to "making it big" (being a screenwriter for Hollywood would be that) you either need to know the right people or have lot of money and high end school degrees. It's far from easy to get into these type of jobs. It's probably easier to make the NHL. Same with people who think they can make it into Microsoft or google because they can code. The odds of getting in are very slim as it's super highly competitive. You have to be a super genius to make it into these high end jobs.
 
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