Don't be a player hater - be a player congratulator!
Couldn’t really come up with a cool image for this. Of course I thought about the Chappelle Show characters for the Haters’ Ball…but that wasn’t very “horror” related. This week I decided to talk about mindset and what I see going on with fans/a lot of the population.
Years ago I heard a story about someone that would go catch crabs with family and they would take a shallow basket to put the crabs in. It sounds odd but apparently that’s all you need. The trick is you have to have a minimum of two crabs in the basket. If there is only one crab it will notice that it can get out and proceed to get out. If you have more than one crab, the others will pull the escaping crab back into the basket. This seems to happen with people as well. If someone is doing well, trying something new or following their dreams…people will tell them they can’t do it or they are crazy for trying it. For artists, this is highly frustrating because we see our visions clearly and want to work towards them. Others just tell you that it can’t be done.
To me this comes down do mindset. Some people have a mindset of scarcity, others have an abundance mentality. I think this is kind of funny in the film business because of the final product. If a movie cost $100 or $200 million to produce the DVD usually cost what? About 20 bucks. Also look at it like this. If you buy DVDs, do you own just one DVD? I really doubt it. If you rent DVDs, do you rent one per year or one per lifetime? No, we rent movies or buy movies all the time. So what is the point of being so negative towards other filmmakers, etc…?
It seems to be more helpful to help others. I’ve noticed with several smaller filmmakers, there seem to be clicks and prejudices against each other. They don’t seem to help each other. As low budget filmmakers, we don’t have the millions to promote every film we do, so helping share news of releases and productions with other horror fans seems to be a smart thing to do to me. If we hear about a cool new movie and we come here to Mutantville.com (too obvious :p) and tell you (fans of horror) about a cool new movie and you go watch it and tell your friends, “hey, I saw this cool new movie about a chicken that kills 10,000 people!” That is beneficial to everyone! It helps other filmmakers keep their passion/livelihood going and helps the fans find cool new movies to watch.
Well…that’s about it for my rant. I guess I don’t understand the scarcity mentality when it comes to stuff like this. If you understand it…please explain it to me!
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