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High Word Coun At Last

STARTREK11

Lieutenant Commander
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In all the Star Trek films the word count has been very,very low,almost as they were trying to keeps the films simple for the Average American Joe,totally ignoring the fact that the upper echlon,educated,some intelligent substative Americans,including geeks and nerds and non-Americans prefer a much more verbose and challenging,complex plot instead of the simple Simon from backwater Alabama plots.

In fact Star Trek has consistantly failed to deliver complex,multilayer plots and relied on simple,stright plots which has made audiences restless as they need a change,which will tax their intellect as for example films like the matrix which people flocked to see and made $3 billion gross worldwide.

A source close to the film makers can reveal that this will have a substantially higher word count and a much more complex non-linear plot which makes a refreshing change.

The source says he saw the script in Abrams hand when Abrams came to a meeting with the production staff,and it was quite thick when he compared it's thickness to previous script thicknesses.

He says it could be 3 or 4 times thicker then previous scripts which he compared to after seeing it in his hand implying a much higher word density in the film.



I welcome this as we need more challenging films as you will all note the nearly wordless,sleep inducing S.T.TMP where we all longed for them to say something,anything, instead of gawping at the screen in befuddlement as the ship wandered through V,Ger's never ending intestines.

The source says it was definitely the script he saw as it said script on it.He says he saw it from about 7 meters away and he has good eye sight.

He could not give any more details as then the door was closed as they sat down on the chairs for the conference.
 
Well, no movie thread is complete without a TMP bash. :rolleyes:

I just hope "high word count" is not synonymous with "technobabble."
 
STARTREK11 belched:
The source says he saw the script in Abrams hand when Abrams came to a meeting with the production staff,and it was quite thick when he compared it's thickness to previous script thicknesses.

Translation: John Norman's Chronicles of Gor series is an objectively superior work of literature than Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. Gotcha. :thumbsup:

TGT
 
I had such great expectations for TMP and what a bore it was.They were all very stiff and rigid and taciturn without any charm,wit or humanity and the film soporific.I wish they had simply battled the Klingons throughout instead of boring V'Ger.
 
EyalM said:
Maybe Abrams is using a bigger font then previous scripts?! :vulcan:

He said the fonts were normal sized and they have rules for script writing regarding spacing,margins and so on.Also Abrams does not wear special glasses.
 
The Gored Thing said:
STARTREK11 belched:
The source says he saw the script in Abrams hand when Abrams came to a meeting with the production staff,and it was quite thick when he compared it's thickness to previous script thicknesses.

Translation: John Norman's Chronicles of Gor series is an objectively superior work of literature than Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. Gotcha. :thumbsup:

TGT

We are talking about films not books.
The previous Trek films had a very low word count.

Does anyone know of a website which list word counts of films as I dont want to count the words myself.Or a pogram which can count the words for me from a dvd in my pc?
 
Non-linear.... like LOST ?
J. J. has done non-linear before so it'll be nothing new for him ;)
 
Yeah. "2001: A Space Odyssey" sucked. Not enough words. :D

A thick script could also be a sign of a lot of short exchanges between charcters.

Kirk: Does this look infected?
Spock: Indeed.
Kirk: Should our new doctor look at it?
Spock: Logical.
Kirk: OK, I'll do it.

Kirk: Doctor McCoy, is it?
McCoy: Yes.
Kirk: Doctor, may I call you Bones?
McCoy: Hell, yes.
Kirk: Bones, does this look infected?



Could be that Abrams scripts are also full of more description or set up of scenes than previous Trek scripts were.
 
Franklinstein said:
Yeah. "2001: A Space Odyssey" sucked. Not enough words. :D

I disagree, there were so many "oooh, oooh, oooh, aaah, aaah, aaahs" during the "Dawn of Man" sequence, that I couldn't follow all the dialogue.
 
STARTREK11 said:
We are talking about films not books.
The previous Trek films had a very low word count.

Okay. So Battlefield: Earth is a better sci-fi movie than the silent classic, Metropolis? ;)
 
klingongoat said:
Franklinstein said:
Yeah. "2001: A Space Odyssey" sucked. Not enough words. :D

I disagree, there were so many "oooh, oooh, oooh, aaah, aaah, aaahs" during the "Dawn of Man" sequence, that I couldn't follow all the dialogue.

Get the subtitled version.
 
I can see J.J. if the movie flops horribly:

'I don't get it! Our script was a fucking tome! Anyone ever actually held the script for Casablanca? The thing was a damn pamphlet by comparison! Stupid public not knowing a thick script when it sees one!' *shakes head*
 
My script is also quite thick when compared to the thickness of other people's scripts. Especially when it is in J.J. Abrams' hand.
 
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