European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Ass Jim Dor Felm Onnie Terrell at the Frankfurt playhouse a a there a always someone who wants to do a Terrell Hopes he a setting the stage for screen Success by Chuck Roberts staff writer Unnic Terrell is an aspiring Black film writer who admires the work of Spike Lee and John Singleton. Yet Terrell says he can to relate to the Urban Edge that cuts through such films As Leeds do the right thing and singletons Boyz of the Hood. Terrell is More familiar with base housing than the a Hood but he sees his military links As an advantage in what he Hopes vaults him from the by toward a theatrical career. A i know the military Quot says Terrell 29. His father is a 30-year air Force Veteran his Mother is an cafes employee his brother is in the air Force and his wife is an army specialist assigned to Rhein main a Germany where Terrell works As a morning Stocker in the base Exchange. Those military roots provide Terrell with emotions and experiences that spice up his screen writing. He could easily sketch scenes of frustration so familiar to the military such As at car registration or a mad dash to the by when there a Only one cashier helping 12 people and she suddenly has a Price Check. Terrell has spent the past 11 years trying to convey those emotions into words. A a he a doing very Well a says Dan Leonelli an instructor for Terrell and other students enrolled with the Hollywood scriptwriting Institute. Leonelli says he appreciates Terrell a enthusiasm which he recognizes even though the two men Are 9,000 Miles apart and have never met. Leonelli notes that Terrell a writing strengths Are Good characterization and Structure. A but he needs to be Here a Leonelli says referring to the advantage of living where you Hope to sell your product. Terrell a native of Goldsboro , has had nine of his 11 plays performed in North Carolina Heaters. He has written and directed a to Pilot and he was accepted last year into the Hollywood scriptwriting Institute which boasts that it boosted the careers of Woody Keith society Bill. I Straib false witness and school founder Donna Lee bite the dust. Terrell is Midway through unbroken Bond the Story of two Brothers children of military parents who Are track stars involved in a car crash that leaves one of the Brothers dead and the other paralysed. A diploma and completed script Are no guarantees to make it in Hollywood but Terrell figures that if he feels powerful about his work then someone else will too. A there s always someone who wants to do a movie Quot Terrell says. He Points to an advantage there Aren t Many other Young Black writers. Also his nonviolent themes Are alternatives to the likes of Singleton. It was t the big screen that lured Terrell into the world of words. He was a senior in High school searching for his Niche when he found it while watching a to movie of the week. He said to himself a Man i can do better than he grabbed a pen and wrote. Six years later his one act play rare Breed was performed to favourable reviews at a dinner theater in North Carolina. With his parents sitting in the front Row enjoying the play along with the rest of the crowd Terrell knew he had made the right career Choice. He said to himself a this is something i want to Terrell has branched into several areas of theater and film. He has worked As musical director stage director technical director and As an assistant casting director and movie extra in pretty baby. He was head writer script supervisor and assistant director for a to Pilot called 77ie drug free teen party shot in , ., area but the Pilot was t picked up by a network. As a father of two he does much of his work late at night after his full time Job at the base Exchange and part time with tvs Cable. Working eight hours at a stretch until 2 . Can be tiring Terrell says a but that a what Coffee is his moonlighting is made easier because of the encourage men t Given by his wife Terry whose nickname is ditto. His dream is to have unbroken Bond premiere in North Carolina and involve his family As much As possible in that and his future productions. He mind another premiere such As one in Hollywood says Terrell Quot in a going for the whole nine by Pierre Yves Glass the associated press Uro can movie makers tired of seeing their films turned into . Copycat remakes say it s time americans watch foreign Box office hits dubbed in English a just like europeans see dubbed . Originals. American Industry officials claim that wont work a americans wont watch dubbed films no matter How Good starring foreign actors they done to Mccog Nize. / uni France film Frances movie Export promoter does no to buy that. In an Alliance with am the no. 2 . Theater Chain uni France is launching an ambitious attempt to break into the . Market with movies dubbed in English. A your Market is totally open to the americans. The question is is the american Market open to us the answer is clearly no a said Richard Boidin a senior executive at Paris based uni France. . Films account for 60 percent of Box office revenues in France. By contrast French films Are Only 1 percent of the . Market where foreign films altogether account for barely 2 percent. High Quality foreign films such As the Oscar winning French film indic inc starring Catherine de ecu pc dominate the Small Market of american a Fine arts Quot Heaters that show them subtitled in English for a select audience. Subtitles condemn such films to a Quot cultural ghetto a since average americans get turned off by having to read a movie s dialogue Blit popular less arty foreign Best Sellers such its comedies rarely get dubbed in English for the mainstream . Audience. Instead . Producers buy the rights to the idea then remake them with . Stars and settings. Foreign producers get scant. A royalties and no recognition for the original idea. But its that or nothing. A remake rights they Border on indecency a Boidin said a imagine Jurassic Park and instead of dubbing the original a French company buys the remake rights for $500,000. How would the producers of Jurassic Park like that a the dubbing Issue is tied to Europe a Battle to defend its film Industry in world free Trade talks. Europeans want to preserve subsidies to their Movic Mak cars saying that otherwise be bulldozed by the american giants. European movie makers could earn badly needed Revenue to finance filmmaking if their movies dubbed in English had Access to the mainstream . Audience Quot Why Are we practically banned from your Market because the guardians of your Industry have decided once and for All that your Public does no to like dubbed films Quot portuguese director Antonio Pedro Vasconcelos wrote in a letter to american directors published recently in the Paris daily liberation. Jack Valenti president of the motion picture association of America says Heaters wont show movies they think will lose Money. A Star Power is important everybody knows Tom Selleck a Valenti said referring to Selleck s role in three men and a baby the . Remake of Frances blockbuster comedy three men and a Cradle. A if 1 have three obscure International actors nobody heard of it s hard to sell that yet most americans will never know France s Philippe Noiret Italy s Giancarlo Giannini or Spain a Victoria Abril if they can to see their movies. At least one foreign film Germany s Das Boot a drama about a world War ii German submarine Crew has proven dubbing works. Its superbly dubbed version the boat made the mainstream . Circuit starring actors unknown to most americans. December 12, 1993 sunday Page 7
