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I've been digging back into The Movies and enjoying it muchly and reoptimizing my strategies. I have a small pool of actors I can pull from and reliably crank out decent movies -- not optimal movies, but good enough to keep Pretty Bird Pictures a step ahead of the computer-controlled studios until the end of the century. I've managed to sweep the awards until 1935, and in my last game, got two five-star movies in 1946 and 1947, the latter of which is below.
The only problem I've found with the process is that one must pay very careful attention to the script and actually open it in the custom-script office, because otherwise your casting is a crap shoot. The default scripts custom-tailor the roles for specific gender roles, and unless you take notes beforehand, you're very likely to miscast those roles. A few of my studios became pioneers in the lesbian-western genre, a genre I think we all can agree is underdeveloped in the real world. (In my universes, just replace John Wayne with k.d. lang and you can imagine how history unfolded.)
For this particular flick, it came out of the script office as a 3.5 star script, so I immediately tacked on a few scenes in underused sets to give it a higher star rating, so there are a few non sequitur scenes at the end. But that's nothing compared to realization that Biscuit (the girl) and Moosie (the white-haired man) have been inserted into gender-opposite roles.
Also sadly note that breast size is a positive attribute in the game; smaller chests immediately equate to a less-attractive female. Well, it is typical Hollywood. Hence Biscuit's ample anatomy.
The only problem I've found with the process is that one must pay very careful attention to the script and actually open it in the custom-script office, because otherwise your casting is a crap shoot. The default scripts custom-tailor the roles for specific gender roles, and unless you take notes beforehand, you're very likely to miscast those roles. A few of my studios became pioneers in the lesbian-western genre, a genre I think we all can agree is underdeveloped in the real world. (In my universes, just replace John Wayne with k.d. lang and you can imagine how history unfolded.)
For this particular flick, it came out of the script office as a 3.5 star script, so I immediately tacked on a few scenes in underused sets to give it a higher star rating, so there are a few non sequitur scenes at the end. But that's nothing compared to realization that Biscuit (the girl) and Moosie (the white-haired man) have been inserted into gender-opposite roles.
Also sadly note that breast size is a positive attribute in the game; smaller chests immediately equate to a less-attractive female. Well, it is typical Hollywood. Hence Biscuit's ample anatomy.