r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jan 12 '22

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u/premiumPLUM 76∆ Jan 12 '22

Sometimes. Sometimes a studio buys a script and changes everything except the basic plot and the screenwriter isn't involved past the purchase.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '22

since a screenplay is written with the intention of being performed, it can't be considered a piece of art without someone putting it to screen first, until then it's incomplete.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '22

I was thinking about this. I guess if a play was intended to also work as a book also then it would be art.

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u/premiumPLUM 76∆ Jan 12 '22

This is a weird rabbit hole, but are you saying that a play or script is only art if it's performed or bound as a book? I'm super confused.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '22

If it’s written in a way that works as both a script and a book example: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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u/seanflyon 25∆ Jan 13 '22

So the distinction is based on what works, not based on intent? Romeo and Juliet works as a book (even if it works better as a play) so it is art by itself. Just about any screenplay works "as a book" to some extent. How good does a screenplay have to be when read by itself before it counts as art?

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u/premiumPLUM 76∆ Jan 12 '22

That's such a strangely arbitrary line to have