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I haven't actually seen any movies specifically about writing that are particularly inspirational. Writing is not the most movie-friendly of activities.

I find the movies that give me inspiration are the movies that are mostly bad, but have a couple of good ideas contained within them. This tends to get me thinking in a direction of "fixing" the bad movie, or even inventing a new story with the same objectives, or about the same themes, that doesn't suck so bad.

Generally speaking tightly constructed and well made movies are enjoyable but they already exist as they are so I don't get any inspiration from them.

I wish I could give specific examples but usually any end product influenced by something comes out unrecognisable. I have a lot of time for the concepts surrounding the physiology and nature of angels in "The Prophecy" but nothing I have ever written is an attempt to "fix" that movie as much as it just lifts the good concepts out of the surrounding problematic structure.

Television series often have loads of great unused ideas because the writers leave avenues open for taking the stories in one direction or another that, in the end, they fail to develop. I feel free to take these "redundant plot concepts" as well. Again, I could not point to anything specific.

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