Comment by Sharlin

Comment by Sharlin 18 hours ago

4 replies

Yes, because ideas are not worth much if anything. If you have an idea of a book, or a painting, and have someone else implement it, you have not done creative work. Literally, you have not created the work, brought it to existence. The creator has done the creativity.

CuriouslyC 17 hours ago

I guess that depends on how much oversight you engage in. A lot of famous masters would oversee apprentices and step in for difficult tasks and to finish the work, yet we still attribute the work to those masters. Most of the work in science is done by graduate students, but we still attribute the lion's share of the credit to PIs.

alickz 15 hours ago

If you write a screenplay (the idea), and direct actors to act it out according to your vision (the implementation), did you _create_ the film?

I think my answer would be "Does it matter?"

If it brings joy to you or others, who cares about the semantics of creation

  • Peritract 5 hours ago

    A screenplay isn't just an idea; it's an implementation of an idea.

  • shakna 9 hours ago

    Nope. Films acknowledge a difference between the writers, the book that inspired it, and the director.