Making movies about writers

Writers´ job is one, I guess, of the most popular movies´ topics. What actually makes this topic that interesting? 

The profession of the writer is a really hard work. You have to take many jobs You don´t really like to do (for many writers it means also a physical work), just to earn your money. 

I remember reading ´The shadow of the wind´. Yeah, that´s a kind of heavy stuff about life of a writer. Writers applying for jobs like cleaners, housemaids or nannies, not able to publish.

And although this kind of life is so hard and so absurd, it seems to be one of the favorite themes of the movie industry.

The screen writers are also very creative here. They put the character into a strange situation and confront him with it. While watching, we observe his acting and explore the dark, crazy, neurotic character. The more mental ill it is, the more we like it. It shows us the statement, which is forbidden to us because of social or ethic rules, things we would never think of or either try to do. 

In ´Deconstructing Harry´ by Woody Allen, he had slept with his wives´ patient and tries to explain her, it was his full emotional right to do it because of her practice.

We need him (the writer), to represent all of our sickness.

In ´Shining´by Stanley Kubrick Jack Nicholson goes mad in a lonely hotel during winter, writing his novel, and causes a bloody massacre.   

 The same we need blogger to write emotional about the topics we read in the daily newspaper.

 Or the journalist to be objective. We need their minds.

We need them and expect them to be mad.

We also want them to be unhappy. Not enough satisfied with their life, career, relationship. Sinking their problems in alcohol, without being understood by their environment. 

 In ´Manhattan´ Woody Allen is a neurotic writer, who skips between different relationships, of which not a one makes him happy.

No matter, how popular those movies are. it doesn´t make the situation of writers better in any sense. The work is rare, the income unstable and life far from comfortable.

Interesting fact: on Guardians´ job search the work offers for writers are 6, for marketers instead 87.

Making movies about writers is spectacular and has many marketing advantages, but the last who make money wit it, are writers.