Five Ways To Get Ahead In Movie Journalism
1) Kiss The Ass Of Actors
If you’ve reached that intermediate level of movie coverage, one of the best things you can do is kiss the asses of actors, directors and anyone else in a position of prominence. Start by buffing review scores and gushing over trailers. It doesn’t matter how rancid the latest turd is, to you, it’s as if God himself pissed in your cup.
This can often lead to interviews. That’s when you must step up your game and become an ass kisser extraordinaire. Tell them how great their movie was, ask them about their favourite topics, as if the rest of our opinions next to theirs is worth less than shit. Force out laughter at their jokes. Slap their backs. Do that and you’ll get more than a one-liner response to each question that isn’t useless.
Do it well and you’ll probably curry favour with their agent and win another interview, or an interview with another famous person whom they manage. And if you kiss ass extraordinarily well, you will get those all important set visits.
So, to summarize this break down? Sell out. Sell your readers down the fuckin’ river!
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