In this short but sweet edition of PUT DOWN THAT THESAURUS, comes a short film that will warm your heart and remind you as you do your wordsmithing with thesaurus by your side, convinced you’re polishing your writing — there is always another way to communicate what you are trying to say, and a lot times that other way — is more effective.
Don’t get me wrong, I use a thesaurus, at times. But much like this short film, I’ve learned over the years to turn the importance of what I’m trying to say more toward how I want to say it and substituting just one word for another doesn’t quite cut it.
Enjoy.
Took me sometimes to read some the comments, any way I really enjoyed the post. It proved to be pretty useful to me and I am inescapable to all the commenters right here! It’s always good when you can not only be informed, but also entertained!
Took a while for me to figure out why that short looked familiar.
“This short story winner of the 2008 Cannes Festival shows how the kindness of strangers can have a big impact. Film produced by Alonso Alvarez Barreda.”
~youtube poster, redpony12
Ps. Thesaurus, I have none. But I do own a scribbled-on copy of Save the Cat.
Great info. thanks for stopping by.
You’re welcome for my part. I had hoped you’d comment on The Power of Words being an apparent remake of the Cannes winner in the link I posted.
Wow, Jessie — sorry I didn’t catch that in your first comment, I thought you were just relinking the same video.
That is incredible. Even the casting is a direct copy. Someone had sent the ‘copy cat’ version to us — without any notion of the controversy.
Clearly the original has the history (and status) to be proud, and the other well, what a waste of resources! They should have invested in their own story — and certainly the originator deserves credit on both.
‘They’ say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery — but stealing is another thing entirely.
Thanks for sharing.
Hi, The link didn’t work. Could you please send another? Thank you,
CE
Nevermind, found it in another comment. Thanks CE
Simplicity,I like it.CE