In this week's blog, I read about flattery in filmmaking, and how much is too much to people?  The author, Patrick, talks about how he was traveling a lot to share stories close to their hearts with other people.  He was in Washington one morning when he opened up his email like normal and people were telling him that a website he had done had been done again by someone else, almost copying the same way that Patrick had done it.

            He goes on to talk about how we help people without actually knowing it.  For example, we spend money at certain businesses and it helps out the business even if we don’t pay a lot of attention to what our money actually does.  Patrick didn’t even know the answer to the question, “How far is too far?”  This is in response to a saying that goes, “Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.”   He did add something that Einstein had once said, and that was, “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

            Patrick talks about how in filmmaking, we try to inspire other filmmakers with our storytelling, but it turns into something more.  We would see other stories that were more than “inspired than us.”  We could see our work and our passion in others works, almost identical to what we did.  He compared this to Ice Cube when he was questioned about “Ice, Ice Baby” and “Queens Under Pressure.”  What we can take away from this is that what we do does matter.

Posted April 14, 2014 11:53

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