When the Turtle Drowns

The screenwriter is the most important person in cinema. He creates universes where every detail is beautiful. But then come the producer and the director, they ruin everything, crumple and stomp with their big boots. Therefore, the most unhappy person... in cinema is also the screenwriter. There are fantasies meant for oneself, not for the audience. Some little island where women are beautiful, men are noble, with wine, cheese, and a pleasant climate. A shard of flat earth floating on a turtle. There, the only sin is gluttony. It would be possible to escape from reality and live quietly there. If it weren't for the population. Well-written characters always rebel against their creator. They bicker, quarrel, and ruin the idyll just as much as that producer. The creator, meanwhile, worries for the people, can't sleep, and drinks heart drops. Page after page, fiction triumphs over reality. And when the invented beauty suddenly walks through a real door, there is no one in cinema happier than the screenwriter.