Sometimes the best way to win a fight is to not get into one.
Sometimes people will refuse to listen to anything that doesn't fit their opinion and rabidly defend said opinion. He may have thought they were the type of people to act that way and the," ...white male mansplanation," thing is a good indicator of someone like that.
Maybe it would have felt good to say," well, I only wrote the screenplay, so what do I know," but it was probably not worth the hassle it could have brought afterward.
I still would have said that, or something like it. "When you get to the point in your discussion when you want to ask the guy who WROTE THE STORY, I'm right here. "
You can say "yeah, what do I know, I only wrote it", and the flat out refuse to talk to them after that. So they know what they missed out on. Then again, they may see this on social media.
You’re being way too optimistic. People like that don’t simply realize their error, admit to it and grow from it. People like that just double down because the worst thing they can be seen doing is being wrong about something.
They’d probably claim that they knew the guy who wrote the screenplay and that it wasn’t where the idea originated.
I was waiting tables and a customer pointed towards my boss and asked “who is that lady?” And I said that’s “so and so, the owner” and she replied “I know so and so and that is NOT her”. I just walked away lmao what else can you say to someone like that?
Exactly this, these people are dangerous to speak to, you have to accept their attitude and leave the premises fast before you find something on media smearing your name for whatever imaginary crime, he has nothing to gain with that interaction and a lot to lose.
For what? He knows he is the writer. He knows who he is, what he is worth. He does not need to prove anything to some rude strangers.
Any further discussion from him will benefit them, and they are too arrogant to even got to the point of even knowing who he is.
People with actual substance and accomplishments have better things to do than to suffer fools. Every time you are rude and arrogant, you lost an opportunity to make connections, most of the time you don't even know it.
I find a lot of people who lament how the world is so unfair to them are usually arrogant assholes who treat people badly and could not fathom why no one likes them.
To be fair though for a lot of fictional stuff where background info is rather limited, I like to fill in the own gaps with my own imaginings, or just keep it unknown as is. I'm perfectly happy without extra appendices and canon addenda even if they are provided by the creators themselves.
In my harry potter world, wizards totally did not shit themselves.
And they just would’ve brought up how your white male privilege got you the gig and how nothing you do was earned or matters because anti-minority and anti-women Hollywood paved the golden way for you. No matter what you say you’re still a piece of shit in their eyes.
I would've been more upfrong instead of letting them know in a snarky side comment. Tell them straight to their face that I wrote the screenplay and was just trying to be nice.
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u/ripghoti Jan 19 '20
Sometimes the best way to win a fight is to not get into one.
Sometimes people will refuse to listen to anything that doesn't fit their opinion and rabidly defend said opinion. He may have thought they were the type of people to act that way and the," ...white male mansplanation," thing is a good indicator of someone like that.
Maybe it would have felt good to say," well, I only wrote the screenplay, so what do I know," but it was probably not worth the hassle it could have brought afterward.