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There was an advertisement I saw (I think it was in LinkedIn) and it grabbed me to some extent. It was an advertisement to get a job at Claude walking of kids shows. It was an idea that has merit and more over, the implications. Could be a lot further than a kid show (but you have to start somewhere) Now I have said over and over aging that ll AI is fake. But most of these graphical fake AI are working on the premise of DML (Deeper Machine Learning) and at times in conjunction with LLM (Large Language Models) it does not make it AI (or even Fake AI) but it becomes a tool with applications and a growing setting of traction. I softly spoke of it in ‘Fat of the meat’ two days ago (at https://lawlordtobe.com/2026/11/02/fat-of-the-meat/) moreover, I thought it might give my scripts a new life as such it goes beyond kids shows. And the application could go towards Saudi Arabia and the UAE as these productions could be made in local languages. Or with subtitles. Another setting that could spell life for some scripts. At present I have two ready and the working setting to two more. As such I would contemplate this (if it could work on a MAC) a whole range of traction that Claude could gain. They seem to be heading in that direction anyway and when these scripts are absent of a lot of production costs, the setting increases, because when a production has a lack of overhead, there are a lot more people easily swayed to give it a chance. I am not hijacking away actors, not special effects as they script was at first rejected. But I also see that there are thousands of rejected scripts. Some might be actually good and now a new terrain (optionally with Oscars) is created. As such, why am I (likely the only one) considering this? Perhaps the makers of Claude are already on that page, they merely lack the settings to make it work.

As I see it, it is also a setting that takes Hollywood away from that equation, and as such studios in Canada, the EU, the Commonwealth and the Arabian peninsula could seek such a solution. There is a field and it is (as far as I can tell) rejected in favor of short term ideas. The idea is however a field that has a larger implementation in TV, Shows and all kinds of directions, from Music Clips and short term videos. All directions that could benefit from those direction. And that is even before we get to the adult entertainment, because there are options there too. All directions that could bring a possibility of revenue, and isn’t that the golden standard in any business? And from there we get the added benefit that it could be remade in any other language almost instantly. And make no mistake, I am talking into my own directions. Because some might ‘worry’ of a script that scares the Jiminy Cricket out of Anne Keast-Butler (GCHQ), John Ratcliffe (CIA) and General Joshua M. Rudd (NSA) but these ‘actors’ are in the clear when they are made with Claude. It opens up a whole range of ideas and ‘shortcuts’ And there is a benefit. As the library of locations are added, the end cost goes down and we could get the three ‘leaders’ digitized and change some facial features that they do not look alike (whilst everyone knows who we are talking about) and as far as I can tell there is a lot more surfacing soon enough. There was my script on ‘How to assassinate a politician’ it has the secondary title ‘Essay’ which played in Dammam (Saudi Arabia), Amsterdam and the Hague (Netherlands) now consider these costs of that series and if Claude could manage it ‘lifelike’ enough, how much costs will it be then? And that is how new studios are created in new ways, because several corporations just dumped thousands of IT people, all ready to learn new skills. Then there is ‘Information Overload’, a simple attempt to give the ‘rulers’ of the CIA, NSA, GCHQ and the DGSE a new for of nightmare (you can’t blame me for that) but that gives us two stories that have merit towards that setting and I reckon that Hollywood have thousands of scripts that never saw the daylight, but now there is a new revenue stream and as too many people respect money above ethics, I think that we have a new playing field and those who enter first have the best chance to make a decent penny (read: Dollar, Pound, or Euro) I reckon that there is a lot of Swedish appeal to make a new Pippi Longstocking, in Swedish no less and if that appeals several other languages would come forward.

So think of this as Off Topic, because the midterms in the USA are too boring, not for the Democrats, but this was the only outcome that would have made sense and for now they will need over a decade to clean up the mess that was left behind and they are doing it without allies, that part was taken care of by the present administration. So, I look at other ways to set revenue towards nicer shores and this administration of the United States that any shore is nicer than the shores of the United States and as I see it, there are options for Canadian movie makers as well.

So have a great day and consider where you might find another path to revenue.

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Netflix Prime

Yup, that is it and it is not a conundrum. This setting applies to both Amazon Prime and Netflix (other layers too). You see, their valuation is set to a larger stage of WHAT and HOW MUCH they can bring. And in a stage where we are on the brink of active militant debates, having an alternative is never a bad idea. You see, for some unknown reason I have been thinking of the Dutch movie ‘De Prooi’ (1985). 

I remember how stunningly beautiful the leading lady played by Maayke Bouten was. But there is more (there always is), the story was quite good, it was done as it always was in those days. Like a race to the destination with several scenes in the middle. Yet the foundation of a decently good movie was there and it could be remade, the story needs a little adaptation, and if it is set to a different location (San Francisco, Vancouver, Fort Lauderdale, New Orleans) a little extra work might need to be done. A script ready for collecting (whomever has the rights) and it is not a small setting. There are hundreds of scripts out there where the rights are no longer active, where the rights to a movie are nickels and dimes away from ownership (instead of tens of thousands or more). A setting that all streamers need at present and they are all over Europe, all over the commonwealth too. We forgot about the younger watchers, did we not? So what happened to the dozens of movies that were part of the Enid Blyton collection, the hardy boys, and there was a female version too. Sweden has its treasures (beyond Pippi Longstocking that is) and so forth. Even the Netherlands has its share of treasures. All forgotten, all in some drawer catching dust, all whilst everyone is chasing the next mediocre version that comes from one of these great stories. 

As such I wonder how long these stream chasers keep on chasing a reinvented wheel, whilst there is a place where you can find a good collection of second hand wheels at 10% of the price. You will spend op to 5% rewriting it, but is one in 5 is a decent success, you will have an interesting track record as well as a decently fast growing library of works. If we look back to the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s we see movies all with a gimmick, but as long as the story is good, it can be rewritten with the gimmick of today and tomorrow. So where are these writers? What will Netflix (Amazon Prime too) do when the budgets are trimmed down? I did not forget about Apple and Disney, but it seems that they have a different approach to where they want to go, or how they want to get somewhere. I might be wrong, but that is how they feel to me. It is up to them and it is up to Netflix and Amazon, they might to get ahead of the curve before the are chasing it in some uphill battle against that very same curve, because that is what falling behind the curve tend to be. A never ending uphill battle. 

And I reckon that this is a race where the number two has no reward, they merely chased the other one too late. Who will it be? I have no idea, I am not buddies with either on that level, I need not be (not entirely true), I have my own stories to write and for now I reckon that I might have a new chapter coming up in the mini series ‘Residuam vitam’, I think it had a different name earlier. For some reason the others have titles set in stone, this one does not. I cannot figure that part out, even as the story was pretty much set, but now there is a new stage, but I need to write it differently, because the party involved are not like us and that changes the stage. I should say that Meng Po alerted me to that part, but I cannot, because every time she serves me soup I forget what I was doing, but the soup is so delicious.

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