Last month I saw a Tweet that showed a brief clip of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”.
Easily one of my favorite horror movies.
And when the most recent version of the story (Robert Eggers’ so-called “Nosferatu”) came out, I watched it with Stefania, hoping it’d be just as good, but both sat there the whole time thinking:
“holy crap this sucks”
We put on Bram Stoker’s Dracula afterwars to wash Eggers’ boring movie out of our minds.
“Fast forward” a few months later to the Tweet above.
A lot of the comments were asking “Grok what is this movie?” when they saw the Bram Stoker’s Dracula clip, which many thought was incredible. It was legitimately “new” to them, even though it came out in 1992. And it dawned on me why so many of these guys slobbered all over Eggers’ boring Nosferatu movie:
They never even saw Coppola’s movie, or knew it existed.
When they saw the clips, some of them behaved like Coppola’s “old” movie invented fire.
This same phenomenon happens in the marketing world, too.
Take what this Email Players subscriber recently sent me:
“you’ve put me onto basically everybody I learn from today. I used to be one of the new kids who thought I knew things. Things sure have changed over the last couple of years. Every time you mention someone, I write down the name and get as much as a can from that person. Thank you for everything!”
I can’t even remember all the names I’ve dropped over the years.
So instead of trying to compile a list of them, I suggest seeing my free mobile app. There’s something like 40 hours of content in there in all kinds of formats, going back years, in some cases, as well as stuff I’ve done in the past few months.
All yours to access, totally free, even though I could charge for a lot of it.
And specifically, there is a section in there called:
“Acoustic Settle”
I’ve probably dropped 100s of such names/resources/influences throughout.
And the info inside is like a sharp stake you can drive right through the hearts of the “Nosfergoo-roos” trying to sell you their silly tools, unproven ideas, and overpriced “courses” that are just recycling what they heard someone else teach, with no real world experience of their own to talk about.
To access this free info whip out your mobile device or iPad and go here:
Ben Settle
