{"id":235483,"date":"2021-06-07T07:59:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T07:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=235483"},"modified":"2021-06-08T06:38:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T06:38:45","slug":"mike-stones-hollywood-memoirs-why-most-movies-are-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=235483","title":{"rendered":"Mike Stone’s Hollywood Memoirs – Why Most Movies Are Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"

henrymakow.com \u2013 June 6, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Melissa Joan Hart, the star of\u00a0Sabrina the Teenage<\/em> Witch (above), said that after she read the original script for the movie version of The Mod Squad,<\/em>\u00a0her immediate reaction was, “Who do I have to blow to get this?”\u00a0(Movieline<\/em>,\u00a0Aug. 1999)<\/strong><\/p>\n

She knew the score.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Mike Stone — (henrymakow.com)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The first Hollywood movie<\/strong> I ever made was directed by a middle-aged married man who was obsessed with prepubescent girls.<\/p>\n

He spoke constantly of Meredith Salinger’s performance as a 14-year-old in The Journey of Natty Gann<\/em>, Jodi Foster’s performance as a 12-year-old prostitute in Taxi Driver,<\/em> and Natalie Portman’s performance as a 12-year-old in The Professional,<\/em> and how hot they all were. To him, they represented the ideal “woman.” He would have killed to work with any of them – before they turned 18.<\/p>\n

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Sexualizing children<\/p><\/div>\n

Knowing him the way I did, if he would have had that opportunity, he would have been overcome with lust. The last I heard, he was binge-watching Cuties<\/em>. To him, it ranks right up there with Citizen Kane.<\/em><\/p>\n

The script for my first movie was actually quite good. A studio reader compared it favorably to Pulp Fiction<\/em>, and another reader compared it to Bonnie and Clyde<\/em>. Still, the director insisted on rewriting every word. The end product was a movie made for 12-year-olds.<\/p>\n

That’s not an uncommon occurrence in the movie business…<\/p>\n

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Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a movie set, everyone has an agenda, and no one’s agenda is making the best movie possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":235484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235488,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235483\/revisions\/235488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}