The Eternal Threat of Death by Quicktime Trailers

A good friend of mine has been working in film, writing and directing, for six years now. I've been through every draft and rewrite, moaning and whinging, script pitch and comments session. The worst is the recurring nightmare of Eternal Death by Quicktime Trailers (aka Eternal Death by Aintitcool).

There you are slugging through the treacle of writing, working hard to prove to yourself that by God I've got it in me to do this idea justice! And in a fit of procrastination you check out some quicktime trailers at the Apple website, watch some of the big stuff and curse them for their insane budgets, catch up on the latest Adam Sandler crap-edies, and then make your way to the stuff you've never heard off in search of those film nuggets that nobody is really talking about and BAM!

There's your movie playing in a trailer...

And you can feel your heart sinking past your testicles and you're thinking to yourself that this can't be happening. Someone must have stolen my idea! Someone must have told Jerry Bruckheimer about me! THE BASTARDS!