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Strike Shows Writers Important

Most everyone, certainly people who follow the news even casually, are aware of the ongoing screenwriters' strike. This certainly isn't due to some sudden inherent fascination on the part of the media with screenwriters; awareness of the screenwriters strike comes from the fact that the strike has shut down much of the television and movie production that was occurring before the strike began, and this lack of television and movie filler is big news as far as the media is concerned. Irrespective of why people are aware of the screenwriters strike, the strike demonstrates how vital writers are to the entertainment industry.

The importance of screenwriters is certainly a surprise to some. The person who goes to the movies or turns on the television in most cases doesn't give much if any thought to how movies or television shows come together; and to be quite frank, there really isn't significant reason for them to care. Barring the person who either works in or is interested in the entertainment industry, how the industry actually works isn't at all relevant. Be that is it may, going back to the very beginnings of entertainment itself, output has mostly come from words written out on a page.

William Shakespeare, perhaps the most influential writer ever, was in fact a performance writer. Shakespeare wrote plays, which is the foundation from which modern movies and television shows came from. The notion that actors essentially did as they pleased on stage, perhaps with slight input from Shakespeare, is ludicrous. Shakespeare wrote a series of scenes or sonnets that connected into some form of logical story, and the actors memorized and then performed what Shakespeare had written. Dramatic work then has essentially always relied upon output from a writer in order to be performed.

Some may point to the golden age of radio as a possible exception. When radio was the primary means of mass communication, before television saturated the market, radio was about more than just music: dramas, comedies, news, every form of entertainment and information was delivered through radio. Even then, the dramas and comedies performed on radio were written and rehearsed prior to being performed. This is an obvious conclusion if for no other reason than financial and business interests. No network would invest in dramatic programming without some form of blueprint as to what the programming was going to contain. Commercial entertainment scripts then provide details used for business purposes as much as they do direction for actors.

It's a certainty that the screenwriters' strike will eventually be settled. The financial implications, both for the screenwriters and for the entertainment producers, are too vast to let the dispute drag on indefinitely. If nothing else however, the screenwriters' strike has demonstrated how absolutely vital writers are to the entertainment industry.

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Zinn Jeremiah is a freelance author. Read more of Zinn's work at article exchange. Find screenwriting resources by at screenplay writing.

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