Marlett & Me: Introducing a Better Way—Who’s With Me?

By David Marlett
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/david_marlett_of_kings_and_cowboys_marlett_and_me_20090714/
What are we doing? You, me, all of us moviemakers? Digital or film, writer, director or producer, cast and crew? What are we doing? We must be crazy, each of us going our own way, forging our own trail, all advancing against nearly impossible odds. I am reminded of the scenes in the movie Gallipoli, where the Aussie soldiers climb out of the trenches to face the Turks across open ground, only to be mowed down under withering fire. The next row then climbs out and does the same, with very few making it to the trench beyond. Why? Because that was just how it was done. How stupid.