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New Script


I often think of my ilk as a link between the past and future. Every generation is essentially that, but my generation lived at a pivotal point. We grew up before the Internet and after. We came into being at a time that the world changed dramatically. We become interconnected. We maybe only saw this kind of monumental change with the printing press. Generations after would no longer understand living without the omnipresent cloud. Generations before lived before the great change, and had to adopt it as adults. We grew up to evolve alongside the new world.

We also lived during HBO and Showtime. People barely watch cable anymore. There are more shows than ever, yet the messages are consistent. I went to the movies yesterday, and I saw John Wick 3. The movie was fantastic, especially for martial arts nerds. The movie is a gem that doesn't try to ram political ethos down our throats. They even have a gender non-binary character who is a fully formed character. We aren't stuck fixating on this character's sexual identity. They exist in the world of John Wick, and they push the story forward. They don't hold the story back with their own backstory. That's what I get from most of the bigger shows now. We get stuck in the muck sorting out the politics (and what we are supposed to believe). It's social engineering. I saw the movie, "Velvet Buzzsaw," and couldn't stand how obnoxious the "mind-blowing" character arcs were. I think back to the show, "Sex and the City."

That show pretty much got a lot of things right. New York City is a hedonistic adult playground; it doesn't exist as the rest of the world does; it will take more than it gives in time. I think the movies may have changed where Carrie would have logically ended up. I think she got married and lived happily ever after. That is some serious fiction. Most of the women I worked with in the restaurants of Manhattan are still single, living with roommates, with student loans, no long-lasting relationships, and heading towards becoming the NYC cliché. Now, the men also end up going this route as well. I knew more than a few guys around their forties who live the same way.

I'm very libertarian. I don't want to tell anybody what to do. It's difficult enough to get myself to do what needs to be done. My point is that the glamour and allure of a good story can take us on a wild ride. Most of the time the ride ends up costing us more than the price of the admission. I love a good story. I love the internet and surfing it's damn near infinite threads. I love and hate social media. It's how I get my own art and writing out there. I hate the part that becomes, "keeping up with the Jones."

It takes a lot of effort to put away the phone, get really quiet, and figure out what our own story should be. I got out of, "Sex and the City," and woke up from the "Matrix." Now, I have to write my own story. I lived so many other people's scripts, and now need to type out my own. I think I have the outline. I believe I've taken pretty good notes. I was able to live part of my life before the noise of the web consumed us all. I remember the end of typewriters, and I remember cursive (well, sort of).


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