Hard News: Anatomy of a Shambles
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The Islands of New Zealand are inescapable land tattoos on any infants minds. The land shouts at everyone with their eyes open.
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Do we have the chequebook to save it?
David Chaplin's take -
Jackson isn't just good, he's amazing. He is one of the best creators of atmosphere and emotion around today, he's artistic and thoughtful, makes intelligent films, and he's more popular than The Beatles without the dumbdowns of Cameron and Lucas.
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Jeremy Elwood manages to see some humour
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to move the filming of the movie anywhere else would be like casting another actor as Gandalf when Ian McKellen is still available.
Yes, an outrage, much like leaving out "The Voice of Saruman" from the theatrical cut. But they'll get over it, and still see the movie 5 times in the box office, buy every DVD and BluRay that comes out, and line their walls with figurines. That's the life of the fanboi.
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The actors were never 'not consulted'. If the ringtones initiative had gone ahead, the actors would have received a cut.
Why? Did they write the ring tone or are you talking voice overs?
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Pat Hackett - yes to Jane Campion, but even bigger yeses to Taika Waititi and Gaylene Preston.
Jeremy Eade - I totally agree that this land/motu is especial. I've been playing with soundscapes for a long time, and it's both those, and the damaged environments that surround, nurture, and form us, that help make us who we are.
However, your comments re Peter Jackson as a director dont resonate with me. His last good film - insofar as this person is concerned - was "Heavenly Creatures". An ANZ story, and not huge budget.Ben Wilson - I have since seen the director's cut of the trilogy.
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Sofie, the plan was to use lines from the show, spoken by the actors, as downloadable ringtones. The actors didn't want to be involved, so it didn't go ahead.
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Ta.
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"Heavenly Creatures". An ANZ story, and not huge budget.
The film during which SPJ wrote a personal cheque to pay for an improved green room for the 2 leads as the production was out of $ers.
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larryP- so?
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Pat Hackett - yes to Jane Campion
Ah, yes... the Jane Campion who has made precisely two out of nine films about "ANZ stories". (And let's not forget most of the funding for the The Piano came from Australia and a French production company that drew some controversy in France for its heavy roster of foreign [i.e. non-French] co-productions with directors like Campion, David Lynch, Pedro Almodovar, Emir Kusturica and Mike Leigh.)
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Craig - what precisely are you trying to tell me?
Jane has a record of directing Maori actors - that is all I am interested in (and I think "The Piano" - despite its fouled origin - peace, Jane Mander! - is a good ANZ story.) -
Islander - simply an aside relating to the original issue of the conditions on a SPJ film.
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I reckon there has to be a blockbuster of a movie waiting out there about Parihaka. And on a scale of Ghandi.
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Press conference at 7.20.
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Like I said, mischevious with their public statements.
What series of events would lead to the international unions not lifting the boycott after being advised by NZ to do so? None. So in practical sense once NZ says the boycott is over, it's over.
The boycott is over when NZAE tell the actors it's over. That happened on the 20th. If NZAE told only Warners on the 17th then it's not over is it? So how was Warners "mischevious with their public statements"? They were accurate statements as far as I can see. They never said they weren't in discussions prior to the 20th, just that they received official notice on the 20th.
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Islander - What about Vincent Ward? I think he'd be perfect.
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Press conference at 7.20
The Eagles are coming?
EDIT: upon which I reflect on how sad it is that I'm suggesting Gery Brownlee is an eagle... I've just been desperate to use that phrase throughout the whole thing.
EDIT 2: rather nicely timed for CloseUp/Campbell Live. Wonder if that means they have good news or bad? But it will certainly be news.
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From Parihaka Wiki:
Many of the prisoners had already been in jail for 13 months when, in July 1880, the next Native Minister, John Bryce, introduced a Bill designed to postpone their trial indefinitely. Bryce, who prided himself on plain talk, told Parliament it was "a farce to talk of trying these prisoners for the offences for which they were charged ... if they had been convicted in all probability they would not have got more than 24 hours' imprisonment. In the Bill we drop that provision in regard to the trial altogether."[3] The new legislation declared that all those in jail were now deemed to have been lawfully arrested and to be in lawful custody and decreed that "no Court, Judge, Justices of the Peace or other person shall during the continuance of this Act discharge, bail or liberate the said Natives".
Hmm...NZ governments had lots of time to practice....
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Key off overseas, has to be good news or he'd have to stay and face the music.
or it's bad news and doesn't want to face the music
just covering the bases.
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In some good Union news, Matt McCarten is feeling better apparently!
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Not wrong Ross Mason ("Ask That Mountain" would be a key initial source...)
LarryP - are you Larry Parr? If so, didnt I have a meeting with you & Richard Taylor in Wellington nearly a couple of decades ago?
Cheers anyway-
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EDIT 2: rather nicely timed for CloseUp/Campbell Live. Wonder if that means they have good news or bad? But it will certainly be news.
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Nah, just that everyone wants a dinner break. It's not like they are all contractors or anyfink.
JK has a plane to catch in the morning . He's off to some other summit. -
Petra- Vincent Ward is (to me) an auteur. I love "In Spring, One Plants Alone" - and yes, he certainly has the people skills and the entree (based on past work) within Maoridom...
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