u/Thisaccwasmadeat12pm

So, “Fugly“ is apparently supposed to mean “Extremely Ugly” with it being a combination of “Fucking” and “Ugly”, is that not fucking stupid? Oh, I’m sorry, is that not ”fupid?”. I mean, would we call someone acting fucking weird, “fueird”. How about someone who’s fucking Rude? Fude? Fucking Dead? Fuead? Fucking Ridiculous? Fuidiculois?

It is a word that serves absolutely purpose, It’s fucking unnecessary, is that I’m trying to say. Funnecessary. The only way I could imagine it coming about was that someone was writing a song, couldn’t think of a word for Ugly, and so just made up one. That, or I’m just fucking confused. Fuonfused.

Pennywise is a representation of primordial, cyclical trauma and the way small-town communities quietly accept and enable evil, allowing it to feast on the most vulnerable members (children) generation after generation. He's also a creepy clown who lives in the sewer.

Candyman is a representation of the legacy of racial violence in America, specifically the way Black bodies and Black pain are turned into folklore, commodified, and passed down through oral tradition and urban legend, while the systemic wound never heals. He's also a big black guy in a fur coat whose covered in bees and has a hook for a hand.

Freddy Krueger is a representation of the inescapable nature of trauma and the horrifying idea that your own subconscious and dreams are no longer a safe haven. He's also a burned guy in a red-and-green sweater who says cheesy one-liners.

Pinhead is a representation of the terrifying ambiguity between pleasure and pain, the consequences of unchecked hedonism, and the cold, bureaucratic indifference of eternal suffering, a being who offers the ultimate sensory experience but delivers only endless, mutilating torment. He's also a pale guy dressed up in a BDSM suit whose name is "Pinhead".

And Nikki is a representation of the terrifying, logical endpoint of unrequited obsession and the way love, when stripped of consent and autonomy, curdles into violence, manipulation, and complete annihilation of identity. He's also a crazy girlfriend archetype who turns cats into sandwiches.

Some characters are supposed to be representations of serious subject matters, some are just silly camp fonder, some are both.

I don't like socialising, I'm unsure how to properly work my camera. I understand the core concepts of mise-en-scene, but I don't get the individual, behind the scenes, elements like shooting scripts or "production managers", all that stuff just seems boring.

I don't know, I really wanna make a short film, but I can't find the motivation. And my Parents are getting angry at me. I think I enjoy writing the most, but I can't even fucking do that. I have not finished a feature script in the four years I've been writing. I just get bored of the concept I'm working on, and then I end up moving onto a new script. Literally just in the three days I've been writing I've started a horror script about Millennials Vampires wanting to eat Gen Z, a spoof of Joker 2019 and a serious horror script about a mentally disabled kid killing his classmates in the Special Ed.

The thing is that I want a style, I want trademarks, I want my movies to become a genre of their own, like Tarantino or Wes. But I can't figure out if I wanna be a funny man like David Zucker or Mel Brooks, or someone strange and mysterious like David Lynch or Harmony Korine.

I don't know what to do because I don't know what I'm doing. What's your advice?

Social Media has ruined everything. It’s made movies dumber, made people dumber, it’s made everything dumber. But you can’t escape it. So having it be ruined and banned is actually exactly what this society needs right now.

Social Media is a fad. It’s only something that’s gonna last a few decades. Back in the day, the Government let you do cocaine and heroine until they realised it was actually dangerous and banned it. Social Media is next on that chopping block.

“Oh, but then that’d remove everyone’s voices!”.

Two things I’d say about that point. One, some people’s voices online just don’t deserve to be heard and you know that. Two, it’d actually make them louder. Because without social media to keep you distracted from the terrors happening right now, you’d have nothing else to do but revolt.

Might I remind you that we were in our prime in the 40s-60s (Economically, of course. Racism and lobotomies were still a thing) because we’d just gotten out of a recession and the Government was scared the people were gonna revolt, so they treated the citizens well. But now, there is no threat of a revolt. Let me tell you this now, if people in the 70s wouldn’t put up with someone who had stolen a bit of money, they would not put up with a fraudulent pedophile. and that also goes for people in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 80s and even 90s.

“But what about all the good Influencers who’d lose their job!”.

And I am assuming you’re talking about the GOOD influencers. Look, some might get left in the dirt pile to rot, but there are always TV networks there to pick them up and give them shows or even movies on the air. There are plenty of talented people on the Internet ready to show that they have what it takes to be competent filmmakers or animators, and there are opportunities even for those whose content many consists of them talking about random stuff. Because that has always been a genre on TV. I mean Robert Eebert, Jerry Springer, Talk Shows in General. I could James A Janisse settling in just fine with his own TV show.

Just throw whatever queries or questions you have for me up here, I have answers for them.