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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Prof. Kingsfield: Quote:
Martian:
I don't give a crap about Wiki, they are no better than IMDb. Want ot go find a better source? BTW, there was much bad blood between McClory and Flemuing and the end result of McClory winning the lawsuit many years later resulted in Never Say Never Again.
Face it martian, your idea muddies the credits beyond recognition. The source is the credits themselves. There's a reason he wasn't credited as "screenplay by." It's self-evident he wrote a screenplay which wasn't used per se, but was a partial basis for the screenplay written by the credited screenwriters. This is OMB. I don't see wwhy it's necessary to list OMB twice in Profiler for this, though. | | | | Last edited: by Ace_of_Sevens |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMadMartian: Quote:
Quoting Prof. Kingsfield:
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As UI have explained a thousand times, Martian, I deal with the data that I see On Screen. Is that hard to understand. Now why should this Story and Screenplay by. Because it is what it is and since we don't have the ability to Contribute Custom Roles and there are users who simply will not include the Actual data in their notes because Ken doesn't require it and they care nothing about clear Communication with their fellow users; we wind up with a funny looking duplicate credit that explains nothing. At least by using the appropriate Story By and Screenplay we can capture the "spirit" of what the On screen data really is.
I don't see a 'Story by' or a 'Screenplay by' credit. I see a "Based on an original screenplay by" and a "Based on the original story by" credit. I am sorry, but I refuse to ignore the 'Based on' portion of the credit. In addition, you are not capturing the 'spirit' of what the on screen data really is, you are ignoring it. Why? Because you are giving somebody credit for something they didn't do. Indeed, we will have to agree to disagree on this one.
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But I am glad to see that you are grasping the need for some form of Open Credits.
Clearly, and I don't really know why, you have not understood a single word I have ever written. We have 'some form of Open Credits' already. They are called 'Custom Roles'. What we need, and have wanted for quite a while now, is the ability to contribute that field.
Anyway, the answer has been given, so I am done with this conversation. Yes indeed I certainly HAVE given the answer.  | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Here's an actual credit:
"Based Upon Characters Created By Erle Stanley Gardner"
Based on your current argument, Skip, you would give Gardner a "Created By" credit, right? | | | | Hal |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting VirusPil: Quote:
Hmm, didn't work for me. 
Perhaps I explained wrong.  So I'll try again.
I think this would be great in DVDP:
John Carpenter [John "The Godfather of Horror" Carpenter] - Writer [Written by]
So we would have the same crew roles, but we could track how this role is credited. It's probably me that didn't explain it correctly, so I will try again, using the Jack Whittingham credit as an example. When you add him to the profile, you will check the radio button for 'Writing', and the radio button for 'Original Material by'. Under the role section, there is a text box called 'Custom Role'. In that box you would enter 'Based on an Original Screenplay by'. Once you have saved your changes, the profile will show, Name: Jack Whittingham Role: Based on an Original Screenplay by. Does that help explain it better? | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have no problem with the OMB for this situation; it's pretty notorious and verifiable with very little research. Yeah, I'd probably enter him twice too, since there were two different original materials he created that were the OM. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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