That's how you walk, bro!
they tryn'a kill me but I won't let 'em, sh*t can smell a lil more sweet, and story still matters
¿What you heard?
When the doctor told me I had prediabetes, I told her it’s probably ‘cause I’m obese.
“But you’re not obese,” she said.
You can’t tell me who I am. You don’t know me, I wanted to retort, but I didn’t.
Instead, I looked down at my feet, and I thought I wanna keep these, so following some advice from the robot, I’ve taken to walking all over LA.
“That’s how you walk, bro! You workin’ out, huh? You gettin’ it in right there, boy!” an excited man exclaimed during a walk around my own neighborhood this week. #BlackNeighbors
But in getting it in what I’m really doing is getting it out, getting the prediabetes out of my system step by step, prediabete by prediabete.
What you doin’?!
Above is an excerpt from the in-progress Draft 16 of my script Sistah Skeleton, Brutha Bone. 16 or more drafts is definitely not unheard of as even definitive elements of plot and character like the twist in The Sixth Sense (1999) or the law that Jasmine must marry a prince in Aladdin (1992) often don’t appear in scripts until after they’ve already been mulled over and rewritten many, many times.
Yet, for every Aladdin and The Sixth Sense there seems to be a Rocky (1976) or a Before Sunrise (1995) or the entire filmography of John Hughes.
Still acknowledging that, as Ernest Hemingway said, “the first draft of anything is shit,” I am trying to develop ways to make my shit a lil bit less watery and a wee bit more structured and defined.
What you seen??
WHERE THE ROBOTS GROW (2024) claims to be “the first ever original AI feature film,” and because of that, its creators see this movie as a sort of 21st century Toy Story (1995).
Yet, even the very article that quotes this comparison points out just how un-Toy Story this film actually is. The writer puts it softly, simply underscoring that rather than being just a tech marvel Toy Story “succeeded so spectacularly because of the originality of the story, and the iconic characters Pixar created.”
What I imagine is a very diplomatic editor at Forbes probably cut out the second-half of the above observation, which is that none of Toy Story’s originality or iconicity exists in Where the Robots Grow, and so this movie is actually the anti-Toy Story, a film that adapts new cinema tech for the purpose of flash and excitement and not for the purpose of storytelling.