How an 8 year old girl beat 40+ year old men to the punch...
I have a bone to pick with Steven Soderbergh, Scott Z. Burns and Kurt Eichenwald… COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT!
While vegetating in front of the idiot box last night, I saw a commercial for a new Soderbergh film starring Matt Damon – The Informant! Honestly, I was only half paying attention. Until the following exchange happened:
Damon: Mark Whitaker, Secret Agent 0014
(unknown): Why 0014?
Damon: Cause I’m twice as smart as 007.
I have been plagiarized. Seriously. And I’m outraged. Why put that line in the trailer if they didn’t find it one of the funnier moments from the film?! I want profit sharing and screen credit!
When I was 8 years old, my parents, poor graduate students unable to find a babysitter, took me with them to the movies. The film: The Spy Who Loved Me. From that moment on I began referring to myself as Beth Bond 0014. Why 0014, you may ask? Well, because I was twice as good as 007. You can ask my dad, Jon Bond. That was in 1977. 0014…it’s mine. I claim it. As an 8 year old, why in the world would I put a copyright protection on a personal moniker? I didn’t even really know what copyright was then. Had I thought that 24+ years later an adult male (or males…as I don’t know if the line was in Eichenwald’s book from 2001 or written specifically for the screen a few years later) would come up with the same thing that an 8 year old girl had already figured out, I would have copyrighted the phrase then and there. I could be a rich woman, now!
Instead, I’m writing a blog and going to graduate school…again. So…
Mr. Soderbergh, I have an MFA from Columbia in screenwriting. So if you’re interested, I’ve been coming up with silly, inane little quips like the above since I was at least 8 years old. Think about how much sillier and more inane I must be now! If that’s what you’re looking for…then I’m your man…except I’m a woman.
Until I return…
While vegetating in front of the idiot box last night, I saw a commercial for a new Soderbergh film starring Matt Damon – The Informant! Honestly, I was only half paying attention. Until the following exchange happened:
Damon: Mark Whitaker, Secret Agent 0014
(unknown): Why 0014?
Damon: Cause I’m twice as smart as 007.
I have been plagiarized. Seriously. And I’m outraged. Why put that line in the trailer if they didn’t find it one of the funnier moments from the film?! I want profit sharing and screen credit!
When I was 8 years old, my parents, poor graduate students unable to find a babysitter, took me with them to the movies. The film: The Spy Who Loved Me. From that moment on I began referring to myself as Beth Bond 0014. Why 0014, you may ask? Well, because I was twice as good as 007. You can ask my dad, Jon Bond. That was in 1977. 0014…it’s mine. I claim it. As an 8 year old, why in the world would I put a copyright protection on a personal moniker? I didn’t even really know what copyright was then. Had I thought that 24+ years later an adult male (or males…as I don’t know if the line was in Eichenwald’s book from 2001 or written specifically for the screen a few years later) would come up with the same thing that an 8 year old girl had already figured out, I would have copyrighted the phrase then and there. I could be a rich woman, now!
Instead, I’m writing a blog and going to graduate school…again. So…
Mr. Soderbergh, I have an MFA from Columbia in screenwriting. So if you’re interested, I’ve been coming up with silly, inane little quips like the above since I was at least 8 years old. Think about how much sillier and more inane I must be now! If that’s what you’re looking for…then I’m your man…except I’m a woman.
Until I return…
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