Author: kirkwallhellmouth

Carrie Fisher’s Unsung Legacy

legit-writing-tips:

While best known as an actor, it shouldn’t go unacknowledged that Carrie Fisher was also ONE HELL of a writer. As a matter of fact, she had a hand in writing some of the best movies in Hollywood. 

Script doctoring, or script consulting, is a skill that often goes uncredited and unacknowledged in Hollywood. Writers will get hired to polish up an existing screenplay; just like doctors, they diagnose problems and suggest solutions. In the case of script doctoring, that means anything from adding in a few new jokes, to implementing massive structural changes or reworking entire characters and scenes.

Carrie Fisher’s career as a script doctor became the stuff of legend in the 1990s. Fisher was responsible for fixing up Hook in 1991, Sister Act in 1992, Lethal Weapon 3 in 1992 and The Wedding Singer in 1998. In 1992, Entertainment Weekly called Carrie Fisher “one of the most sought after doctors in town”—high praise, and one of the only accolades that Fisher would ever receive in printed form, given that she was not credited by name as a writer for any of the films in which she had a hand.

So now you know. Carrie was a brilliant writer, and her legacy will live on forever in many, many different forms. We may never know just how many movies she worked on and fixed up! 

http://www.themarysue.com/carrie-fisher-script-doctor/

theprincessleia:

Carrie is one of those people who will never truly die. Not just because of Star Wars. I mean, she will always be Princess Leia – whether she’s a baby, or a princess, or a general. Carrie Fisher is Princess Leia. No one else will ever be able to replace her.

I’m a new fan on all accounts; I got into Star Wars last year and I was drawn to her because of Leia, who quickly became my favorite character. But right then… I had just been told by a doctor that there was a possibility that I have Bipolar Disorder. I had been told that years before but I never accepted it. And when that doctor told me that and I found out Princess Leia had Bipolar Disorder… I decided to know more about Carrie.

And her quotes made me accept it. And her books made me thrive that, hey, maybe it’s okay not to be normal? Maybe being insane is kind of normal. She spoke so plainly about this sort of stuff. When I feel like my mind won’t shut up I pick up a book and read some quote that I identify with – and it makes me feel normal.

I looked forward each new interview I’ve come across, each new article a magazine published about her. She’s Princess Leia to most people, and even though I’m a new fan, Carrie was Carrie to me – a party girl in her youth, an advocate for mental health, a great person with great stories and an eccentric but apparently fun life. She made me feel like I could aspire to be someone normal even if I’m a little insane sometimes. She made me accept myself in a way no one had accepted me yet, and I felt that in this way, she accepted me.

I’ll miss her tweets. I’ll miss her interviews. I’ll miss seeing her with Gary. I’ll miss her jokes. But most of all, I’ll miss the way she was – irreverent and amazing and not giving a fuck if someone didn’t like something she did or how she looked.

But she’ll never truly die – she’ll live forever in the lives that, like mine, she touched. Whether by being Princess Leia, a writer, or herself. Because Carrie Fisher was all of those people combined.


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detroit-to-tadfield:

blackcatula:

So, when I first tried to download the song, THIS IS WHAT I GOT.

Traditional Russian folk cover of Boney M’s “Rasputin”.

Seriously. JUST PRESS PLAY.

@redridesagain this is wild

alexkingstons:

there’s been a huge outpouring of love for carrie fisher over the past few days that, quite rightly, isn’t only focused on her work and the iconic character that she played, but who she was as a person and the strength she inspired in people. 

it makes me sad that i’ve only seen posts about debbie reynolds that celebrate her for being carrie fisher’s mother, and an actress of hollywood’s golden age. 

while those are totally great and valid reasons to appreciate her, (and understandable

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she was of a much different generation and most of us are less familiar with her) i want to talk about how debbie was also an incredible woman in her own right.

debbie reynolds was a survivor of childhood abuse. she was a mental health advocate for most of her life. in 1955 she became a founding member of the thalians

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an organization dedicated to mental health causes

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which she led for almost 60 years. 

she was a valuable and fierce ally to the lgbt community. she hosted AIDs benefits years before reagan publicly acknowledged the disease. she bearded for gay men to protect them from homophobia and discrimination that would prevent them from getting roles.

she was a strong, compassionate woman who, on top of raising her own two children with no help from their father, raised the three children of her second husband by his late ex-wife, even after he gambled away all of her money and left her flat broke.

so here’s to debbie reynolds. her legacy — like her daughter’s — is more than just who she was on camera. i’m full of gratitude. the world is better place for all that she left behind.