Board Thread:Social/@comment-4146635-20150126212400

There's something I need to say because it's been on my mind for a long time. There are a lot of things I'd like to say but I'd rather not start a huge mess so I'll just address one thing that's been bugging me. For the longest time I've been feeling a vibe that some people here don't like my movie East Meets West or my actress Chesney. I've always kind of gotten that vibe from some people and it's made me feel guilty to pitch things for the project and for Chesney. I need to make something clear about East Meets West. Yes, I know it's a lot like High School Musical. I know that, honestly, that was the whole point. I pitched East Meets West way back in summer 2013, back when this wiki was really nothing and had barely anything, no development, no rules, no actors, and I had heard about it from NYCgleek. A few years ago, Disney announced a movie titled High School Musical 4: East Meets West which was supposed to be the fourth film with a completely different cast about the rivalry between the East High Wildcats and the West High Knights. You can look it up if you'd like. I loved this idea and was looking forward to its release but Disney cancelled it, which I can understand why. But that summer, I thought about it and thought "hey it'd be super cool if this were an actual movie, oh I know of that wiki for fake shows and movies, maybe I can continue my view for it and put it there" and that's what I did. But there wasn't much released about the movie so I added a bunch of other stuff and it turned into something totally different, a full fledged plot that I really liked. A few elements of the plot were taken from what I knew about the original and the HSM series. The male character in the movie was supposed to be named Ricky Ortiz so I used his name and I took the last name of Gold for Rachel from Tiara Gold who played Sharpay's assistant in HSM3. With the cast, I basically wanted to replicate the HSM characters. I'm a big HSM fan if you haven't noticed. But anyway, I pitched the movie that summer to Lisha and she was all on board with it. Eventually, the wiki became something bigger and that's when I started getting into things. I was really attached to EMW and was excited to execute it. With the movie, having been on the wiki for a very long time and being the first musical, I thought it deserved all of the promotion and success it was getting. So yeah that's that. So if you want to say my idea is unoriginal, go ahead, at least you know the history of it. It was never meant to be original. But in all honesty, I think if I changed the school names, the colors, and maybe changed up the characters just a tad, it'd be a pretty original movie. A story about a singer turned writer who joins the preppy and prideful cheerleading team at her new school, only to find herself getting in the wrong mix at the rival school where she's blackmailed into playing the lead in their school musical, bringing back her old truly beloved musical roots but risking her social status at her new school? Plus a conflicted romance with the rival school's jock? That doesn't sound too bad to me.

And then why some people don't like Chesney, I don't know, jealousy? I just feel like she sometimes doesn't really get support from people. If you want a big star actress then make one, don't be afraid to make them audition for every role, get them in tons of Weebleys, and basically fight for that spot. That's how Hollywood is.

And yeah so inconclusion, I think I like East Meets West a lot. I like that Rachel's story is unique, Ricky is cute, Skylar is sassy, Jess is typical jockish, Allie is fun, and Jason is just underestimated. So yeah, I like my project and I don't really care what other people think.

I may have gone overboard and I'm likely to delete this after it gets a few reads but it's just something I needed to get off my mind. 