Oddly enough, I was moving offices the other day and I dug out this treatment for Brassed Off , which convinced Channel 4 to back. To my surprise, there is no relevance to the film at all in the treatment. Nothing in the treatment happened in the film. It's so far removed, but it got the money to actually make a screenplay. No, I didn't know at the time it would be nothing like the treatment, but I think treatments are a special thing.
People have different knacks now.
Everybody has got wised up to everything now. The best way to make a treatment attractive is to keep it short. This will make it better. I think you have to grab somebody's attention on the first page. You almost make the film three times.