Review Detail of junfriday in Hollywood King

38 reviews all glowing positives? Then excuse me to be the first. I swear this is constructive so don't throw stones at me. First of all, to be fair, compared to most Hollywood stories on this site this one can proudly proclaim itself to be one of the best in terms of writing quality. The dialogues are engaging without being cringy, and it spared us from the unrealistic romance that you can usually only found in Japanese WNs. The lack of system shenanigans is a plus in my opinion. What I find disappointing in this work (and actually all Hollywood stories available in this site) is that none of the authors even bother to research how the industry actually works. Take WGA membership and script registration fee for example. This author wrote the former $500 and the latter $100, but just a single google search would fetch you the actual fee for membership is $2,500 and script registration is only $25 per script for general public (I have confirmed in person that it was still $20 back in 2017), or $10 if you're a member. You may argue it's in alternative world so the price may differ, but whatever. I personally can magnanimously forgive this mistake, though, because it wasn't as significant a mistake as the author's next one. The protagonist decided to make a feature film with $1 million budget. His target for the film release was two months later. The film he decided was 'that' Home Alone. Home Alone. 2 months from pre-production to release. $1 million budget. This is so wrong that I struggled on where to begin explaining this. Courtesy of, again, Google; Home Alone (1990) budget was big. It was initially slated for $10 million but production ended up costing $18 million, and that was filming cost only (cinema print and advertising is a separate budget). $18 million in 1990 is worth $40 million in today's dollar, or $33,7 million in 2017. This is not a "cheap" movie per se, $35 million is today's standard filming budget. Trying to film Home Alone for $1 million in 2017's dollar? Even if the entire actors and crews miraculously refused to receive any up-front salary, just preparing the set alone wouldn't be enough with that miniscule budget. In fact, forget filming set or salary, $1 million for the cinema print/film reel copies to distribute to theaters alone wouldn't make sense in the first place. Then let's discuss the time. Home Alone in actuality was filmed for almost 12 weeks (courtesy of a certain search engine) and that's only the filming part. Post-production always takes more time. 6 months for completing post-production work is considered fast here. The original Home Alone started filming February 14th and ended in May 8th. The post-production team rushed to make it ready for winter schedule. So the way the author made his MC prepared Home Alone from pre-production (gathering crew, casting) to be available in theaters in 2 months is simply doesn't make sense at all no matter how superhuman he is, except if one day in the alternative world takes 100 hours. This novel will make you think that if you finish the filming, the movie is ready. Oh my god. What about selecting which reel you would integrate into the movie and which is not, restructuring the pictures, editing the sound, making background music or securing the right of available ones, color corrections/grading, preparing distribution materials, etc. It takes months sometimes years doing the post-production, far far far longer than it takes to filming. Yet the novel only spared two weeks between finished filming to release. Plus the fixation on "8-year old actor" for Kevin's role doesn't make any sense either, considering Macaulay Culkin was 9.5 years old when he filmed the movie. Anyway, I give up this novel. I understand too much how the industry works that I couldn't turn off my brain to appreciate its other qualities. I hope this helps for author or anyone wanting to write Hollywood movies. My number one advice: use Google, it's easy. Don't know how to use Google? Type in Google "how to use Google". Bye.