Hollywood Unions are burning down the industry. Matt Damon, Top 1% & Universal Bourne Identity Crisis. (CREOLE FOLKS)

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I read Matt Damon's rant about the Bourne Identity Franchise. First of all, I don't watch action films. I have never seen Stallones' Rambo or even the Terminator, nor have I ever watched any of the Bruce Willis' Die Hard films. But I do watch all of the Predator films and all of the Bourne Identity films. So, since I do like the Bourne Franchises, I feel that I must weigh in on Hollywood's 1% because now Hollywood is messing with my favorite action franchise.

Like Occupy Wall St are protesting the 1%, in Hollywood there is also a 1% and the 1% in Hollywood existed long before the 1% on Wall St. The 1% on Wall Street didn't happen until Bill Clinton's term as President of the US but the Hollywood 1% started a long time ago and it started with the Hollywood Labor Unions.

It is very hard to talk about the Hollywood Labor Unions or any unions, for that matter, in Ca. State because these people are like cult members that have been programmed that unions are always doing the right thing by their members. But in reality the Hollywood Unions are often only looking out for the studios and the Hollywood 1%.

Lets take the Writers Guild and their copy writing aka "registering" of screen plays. When I was managing a black female writer from rural North Carolina, being that over 95% of screen plays, registered with the Writers Guild, for supposedly copywriters protection, are people that aren't from Hollywood, I found out that not only does the Writers Guild, knowing allow studio paid staff to browse the screen plays and read the screen plays but when these copy writes expire, the Writers Guild has a mini-party, where studio people can go in and buy up screen plays from the Writers Guild without paying the screen writers, that wrote the scripts because the Writers Guild doesn't notify writers when their copy write protection has expired but they do notify the Hollywood Studios.

So, this practice of the Writers Guild, helping the studios steal scripts is exactly why there are no new screen writers being that the top 1% of screen writers, simply gobble up other people scripts and takes the credit for these intellectual properties, even though they may have no creative talent or hand in writing these screen plays.

Matt Damon is upset because a writer for Universal, turned in a shoddy first draft of a new Bourne Identity Script but is it the writers fault? Not really. These people are usually burnt out, lacking creative juice and down right spoiled, which is the reason that the public is now seeing so many re-makes of films like Foot Loose and will be seeing more re-makes like American Psycho (one of my favorite films but I will not sit down and watch a remake).

So, if this screen writer had a prior commitment to direct a film, then why is one man writing a script and also directing a film? Why does this one guy, who Matt Damon appears to think is lazy, getting all of this work in Hollywood? Well, this is the Hollywood 1%.

No one is that special in Hollywood, to the point that they can not be replaced and the problem is that many directors, studio heads, screen writers have some how gotten that idea in their heads, over time. They actually buy into their own PR and hype, which gives way to these monster egos or a God Complex.

Are there no other screen writers that can write this script for Matt Damon or Universal? What makes this guy so special that he could get paid huge sums of money simply for writing a script in crayon and calling it in, to give dictation, likely while high on cocaine? Did the studio not know that they planned on making another Bourne Identity and if they did know, why wasn't it planned out better to get a decent script in line?

The reason why this happens is because the Unions, like the Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild, makes sure that only the top 1% of their members gets any type of work.

There was another time, when I was looking for a script for two big time Hollywood Producers. They had already produced some hit films and had top agency representation but trying to find a good script, from the establishment in Hollywood is really really hard. So, another producer connected me with these people and they wanted a horror script.

(Sitcoms are getting canceled every single month in Hollywood & it appears that the genre is unsustainable, outside of reality tv, but six years ago, I read a treatment for a pilot, that was almost canceled & not going to get picked-up(I never screened the pilot), I whispered in someone's ear that this sitcom was a winner and all of these years later, the show is still on television.)

Basically what ever script that I gave these two producers, was gonna get made and hit film theaters. And I promise that I can smell a hit film franchise from reading a script.

I went to a place, to where industry people can go to find scripts from new writers, if there isn't anything worth while already floating around in Hollywood. So, I talked to an unknown manger of an unknown screen writer and connected him with the two big time Hollywood Producers.

The deal fell through because this "manager" representing this unknown writer, who had a good script, was demanding that he be a producer on the film and this guy had no money to invest, wasn't based in Hollywood and had no credits. So, the deal fell through and this poor writer, sitting some where in Ohio, working his butt off writing scripts trying to break into Hollywood, will never know that his own manager killed his Big Break Deal.

Hollywood is a very complex place, where you have people from other countries, foreign investors that are often government, the US Pentagon, freelancers, floaters, people that simply drop in & drop out, unions, egos, agendas, public demand or lack of public demand and on and on and on. One has to carve out their own little world and try to stay away from the predators, which are often tied in with political agendas ie:race, wars, culture shape shifting, even military recruiting or even getting Obama re-elected aka Sony.

In Hollywood, all one needs is a small circle of maybe ten strong contacts to make a living in the industry but there are many people(mostly Hollywood gentiles), who want to know 5000 people, go to all the parties, buy twitter followers from corporations, try and get on TMZ.com, throw parties, place ads in The Hollywood Reporter and pretend that others placed the ad in recognition of their talent and usually these "mid-level self generated profile" people are the ones who really do nothing and are down right nothing but image & talk.

So, the problem with Hollywood is two tier. You have the problem of the shady unions, like SAG aka Screen Actors Guild, that will simply make it impossible to hire SAG Actors without a 30 million dollar budget, which is why SAG is a poverty creating union, and then you have the Writers Guild, giving studios a head up on when they can steal scripts without paying the original writer and you have the non-Hollywood wannabe's that are sitting in Ohio, trying to wheel and deal, in a fashion that is inappropriate and unethical, even though they are no-bodies.

The reason why Hollywood has a 1% elite, is mostly due to the behavior and head aches that come along with dealing with unions, their unethical behavior and with the fact that trying to "break in" new talent is a relentless migraine headache of having to deal with people, who watch American Idol, and think that it is reality. No one wants to go through the process and when you do try to go through the process, the unions, will move in and keep you in the bottom 99%.