Dessiree Berry
English Comp. Final
Patrick Stamp
12/15/2016
Pilot or a Passenger? Being a writer, either professional or just for your own amusement, comes with a lot of responsibility. Writing should be something you enjoy doing and you should do it for yourself. A professional writer however, may stray off the path of writing for his or her own self, and they begin to write for the enjoyment of other people, and for what will sell. When you are just writing for your own enjoyment, you are in sense a passenger. However, when you write for the enjoyment of other’s, that is when you become the pilot. When you write for the pleasure of other people, you lose the sense of freedom you had before. Now you are creating the journey instead …show more content…
When you look at it in a writer’s sense, such as in the life of Charlie from the movie Adaptation, you can see how being a pilot was not healthy for him. Charlie was dead set on doing a screen play true to the book, so he could please the author of the book and the audience of the movie. The entire first part of this movie is about Charlie’s internal struggle of writing this, including his personal struggle with his image as a human and his own critiques on the screen play. Charlie is a pilot for the first half of the movie, doing things that he does not necessary agree with and writing not for a purpose, but for a deadline. This causes writer’s block and he does not enjoy himself in the first half of the movie. Regardless of the beginning, once Charlie sits back and allow for help from his brother, not only is able to finish the screen play, he also is able to enjoy himself. In the second of the movie he is a passenger. This does not mean that he is just sitting back and letting things unfold, he is still actively working on the screen play, but the difference is, he is finally writing it to please himself and nobody else. The second half of the movie, he is a lot more happy, and he is able to finish his project, all because he moves from the pilot to the
English Comp. Final
Patrick Stamp
12/15/2016
Pilot or a Passenger? Being a writer, either professional or just for your own amusement, comes with a lot of responsibility. Writing should be something you enjoy doing and you should do it for yourself. A professional writer however, may stray off the path of writing for his or her own self, and they begin to write for the enjoyment of other people, and for what will sell. When you are just writing for your own enjoyment, you are in sense a passenger. However, when you write for the enjoyment of other’s, that is when you become the pilot. When you write for the pleasure of other people, you lose the sense of freedom you had before. Now you are creating the journey instead …show more content…
When you look at it in a writer’s sense, such as in the life of Charlie from the movie Adaptation, you can see how being a pilot was not healthy for him. Charlie was dead set on doing a screen play true to the book, so he could please the author of the book and the audience of the movie. The entire first part of this movie is about Charlie’s internal struggle of writing this, including his personal struggle with his image as a human and his own critiques on the screen play. Charlie is a pilot for the first half of the movie, doing things that he does not necessary agree with and writing not for a purpose, but for a deadline. This causes writer’s block and he does not enjoy himself in the first half of the movie. Regardless of the beginning, once Charlie sits back and allow for help from his brother, not only is able to finish the screen play, he also is able to enjoy himself. In the second of the movie he is a passenger. This does not mean that he is just sitting back and letting things unfold, he is still actively working on the screen play, but the difference is, he is finally writing it to please himself and nobody else. The second half of the movie, he is a lot more happy, and he is able to finish his project, all because he moves from the pilot to the