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I don't have the degree. No experience other than being a no- life wrestling nerd. I think I could book, but I doubt I could write scripts or format a television show. I saw an interesting shoot DVD of Vince Russo and Ed Fererra
talking about that, how Russo was basically the idea guy who came up with the storylines, while Fererra layed out the show, like how long each segment took and where in the program it would be.
I think booking would be a hoot. I'd run it like a soap, with a Bible and all. It would be very old school, going back to telling stories with the matches. I wouldn't give guys scripts. I would give them the idea I wanted them to get across, then send them out to do it. Cover A, B and C, and if there's time, throw some gravy on.
Back to the Hardy thing, for example. I liked having Matt come out and just talk. It's a big story, and they at least attempted to give it the time for him to get it out, albeit in Matt's no- charisma talking chimp way. The dead dog. That's money, baby. What's more raw emotion than talking about your dead dog? My point is it should be done like that every single week for at least 6 weeks before before Jeff snapped. Matt comes out, gives at least an 8 minute talk, baring his soul, wringing out every emotion, making a new point every week, with the previous week's point as the jumping off spot. But all of it coming back to "I'm doing this because I love you", but making it clear that while that may be true, Matt is also blinded by his jealousy and resentment. Just putting a couple shoot aspects in it doesn't make me believe it. I guess that's my problem. I want to believe. This storyline should leave a mark eotionally drained, and a smark like me actually wondering if this could degenerate into a shoot. And it would just be so easy to. And have it all turn out that some outside force (Christian/ Edge, or better yet some faces who were evil after all) be manipulating the whole thing. Matt gets his emotions out and gets redemption, Jeff gets a much needed trip to the woodshed (that secretly we'd all want, because Matt was after all right...no matter how evil he was being), the Hardys would be rejuvenated as faces, new monster heels would be born, and an epic fued would begin. Circle of life.
The problem is while kayfabe may be dead, the powers that be think a couple of shoot aspects are enough to dazzle.
When I was a kid, watching Portland wrestling, Playboy Buddy Rose married Matt Borne's sister. Not on camera, not in the ring. It was just mentioned in a promo one or the other did. The shit hit the fan. It was a fucking war. I knew wrestling wasn't "real", but this sure seemed real. Because they used real human emotions to play on the viewers emotions. Announcer Frank Bonnema made it real when Matt Bourne was ranting about how this could have happened, how Buddy Rose was the devil incarnate (in Portland, Oregon at that time Buddy Rose was pure fucking evil...I mean, this guy dropped the Northwest Heavyweight Championship belt off a bridge into the river...when they gave him a new one, he rented a helicopter and dropped it into Mt. St. Helens...priceless), how his sister let down the whole family. Frank turned to him and with complete sympathy said "I know, but she loves the man". Hook, line and sinker. You can't write that. All you can do is send your performers out with a believable story and have them sell it.
But what the fuck? I'm a creative guy. What could it hurt to send WWE a resume? I might get back a letter I could post here and we could all mock it. Daddy sees a project for the weekend.
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