Intermission- words matter
By Darrell J Banks
CR 2021
If 240 characters can lead to folks marching on the capital. Well back in the day when journalists were locked up and murdered by the mad masses. Just think what happened when printing presses were tossed into the water.
If the pen can enrage folks to an act of murder. Well, why do writers write?
I try to avoid political writing. I wrote a column for a weekly paper back in the 1990’s when the late great journalist C. Bailey was murdered.
When I wrote for suite 101.com The Essentials of Screenwriting I focused on entertainment, “stories” as a journalist fbf said. She doesn’t do stories.
Well, news, is what it will always be. Todays, headlines, tomorrow’s, trash, or a web page not picked up on a google search.
Back in 1998 I found out how much screenwriters make via the WGA, I wrote a romantic comedy, a family drama, and the closest political thing I wrote was the Rules of the Game (portions included within Character Within the Screenplay The Expanded Sci fi edition
This scan is what I wrote about for suite 101.com for three years. For free.
Then they sold out, were bought out folded and the articles well except on a hard drive evaporated.
When I wrote the Rules of the Game, that was as political as I got. Murder, politics and electric power.
Then when I was run over after completing Siolam a Black Bart Western) Murder, race and terror.
I decided to continue my expansion into politics with a spy novel Bad News Days Blurred Lines Fatima/ Iran part one
BAD NEWS DAY BLURRED LINES-FATIMA/IRAN: Banks, Darrell J J: 9781791929206: Amazon.com: Books
And part two Bad News Day Blurred Lines Yoshi/ Natisha. I stayed mostly with the assassination, nuclear, terror angle. I didn’t want a fatwa issued ala the Salman Rushdie type of situation.
Bad News Day Blurred Lines- Part 2 Yoshi/Natasha: Banks, Darrell J: 9781687232083: Amazon.com: Books
But as I contemplate this legal thriller, the decision to include some legal issues and the Yakuza and the Triads makes me wonder.
A friend would not give me another friend’s name as a source, because well this friend of a friend had returned to Japan.
No worries, there are plenty of writers in the nonfiction and academic world who have written about the mafia, politics and other serious topics.
If you have ever seen the Michael Douglas picture Black Rain (set in Japan) or Rising Sun (set in the USA). You know the theme.
LEGAL THRILLERS
One of the first legal thrillers that inspired me was
And Justice For All…. This movie had it all the innocent being killed, the guilty going free and well Al Pacino.
Next.
The Verdict– one of Paul Newman’s greatest roles and what I hope to achieve in my legal thriller, one man against EVERYTHING.
The Lincoln Lawyer was first a book then a movie starring Matthew McConaughey.
While my thriller is set in Los Angeles, I’m taking a different angle.
Most thrillers focus on the prosecutor, the defense or the defendant.
Some like the Firm, take on the role of lawyers and their lack of ethics. My book might include this but it takes a different point of view.
Until next time remember what you write beyond 240 characters is just as important as today’s trending topic on Twitter.
Ciao
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