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Like with boxers, musicians, actors, writers ....

posted 12 years ago by Gemma_Philips
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The more successful they become and richer they become, the worse they become. All such people make an effort when they are starting out to make some money and taste some success, perhaps their hunger for these things improve their creativity and talent, but when richer than they ever dreamed to be, that effort is gone. Boxers become ex-champions, writers churn out sequels which are formulaic, bands take longer and longer to to release another album and when they do it is nothing like their great early stuff, actors look bored and like they want to be somewhere else.

I am assuming Mike has hit that plateau. I consider the guy to be a top drawer star and the talent there blinds me, but I have not not heard anything from him since Goldmember.

I do not watch TV so perhaps this is the reason.

[–] audiopinions 12 years ago

You've never heard of the Shrek movies???

[–] Gemma_Philips 12 years ago

Ah yes, that's a good point. I hadn't thought of Shrek because it is animated. Good films too. But still he has been missing from my viewing schedule since I saw Shrek II on it's release.

[–] ssimpson-10 12 years ago

I just think that writers have only got so many ideas in them, and that's that. He had maybe 10 or 15 good stories and characters, and now he's run out. I don't think it's a matter of getting older or richer, I just think the well gets dry.

I don't think I have even one good story or song in me.

[–] Gemma_Philips 12 years ago

That makes sense about the well. T

he amount of writing I have typed in forums over the years would fill a trilogy of novels at least and if I suspected for a moment in my life I could ever earn a living from writing then I would have focused on it. I know creative writing is not my calling. I would at least have a faster typing speed. I never remember more than a line in songs and so songwriting is not either.

Drawing yes, I could have made a living from drawing but I lost interest in it 25 years ago when my portfolio spanning years was deliberately left behind when the custodian of it moved house. The drawing part of my soul was ripped out when this happened. Perhaps the writing part of Mike Myer's soul has been similarly destroyed.