Posts by Neil Morrison
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There has always been this strand of madness in American politics. Not sure if it's really any greater now than before. They've never had any influence on American foreign policy and tend to think that they won't.
Not to sound too much like Chomsky but there is a political and bureaucratic establishment that tends to even things out. Not even Bush wanted to withdraw from the UN.
Maybe with the Tea Party they'll get more influence but I think that's unlikely. They're more likely to destroy childrens' teeth in some small communities than start WW3.
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While I appreciate that some techies might have bitten off a little too much in the way of debt (when the going was good) and therefore would panic if the work dried up, it's what a great many actors have always faced.
perhaps that's why PJ had already negotiated with the studios to get a better deal for NZ actors.
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The movies could have gone at any time, regardless of boycott.
But they didn't go at any time, they were going to be made here and PJ played a major role in having them made here.
When the boycott occured other countries put in better deals and naturally Warners took the opportunity to get a better deal out of us.
Up til the boycott Warners were filming the Hobbit in NZ, work had already started on sets etc.
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It's all about horse heads in beds right.
clear goal, clear strategy, clear message to the appropriate target.
Ireland, as well as ofering more money, were offering a union that had already done that. Minus the horse head I think.
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Findlay MacDonald in SST:
The actors might have made their case better, sure, but whatever role the proposed boycott played...
proposed?? It was a boycott. And yet again the minimising of the consequences of the MEAA actions.
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But I was talking about Fran Walsh denying the ban had been lifted, several days after the actors had offered to lift it...
The important point is that the studios needed the boycott actually lifted in order to start signing actors. An offer to lift does not change the legal basis on which the US union SAG can OK actors signing up.
The studios were correct when they said the boycott had not been lifted. Yes, there was an offer to lift it by MEAA but at the time the boycott was still in place.
It's not trival, evey day the studio could not sign actors caused them significnat problems. The actors they wanted to sign had other options and would have given the studios a limited time in which to close the deals.
Also, MEAA were until quite late in the piece holding out for conditions on lifting the boycott.
Kelly displayed and continues to display zero unsertanding of how the film indusrtry works or even of how US unions work.
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Jackson was just beside himself with anxiety over having to deal with an actors unions that had all the focus and lucidity of an alley full of stray cats on P.
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oops, that's a freudian slip
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I haven't been to the Power Station for a while but whenever I'm gone its been great. Nice size, gets a good atmosphere.
One of the greatest shows I've seen was Dread Zeppelin playing there. Tortelvis got on the drums and did When the Levee Breaks. Never heard such a great drum sound before or since.
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There's no question that we're still delaying the inevitable day when our film 'industry' collapses.
In cinephile France such a giant of the industry as Alain Resnais pulls audiences of 4-500,000. The numbers make for no profit.
Goddard gets about 20,000 (but he's hoping for less).
Woody Allen the same, he seems to survive by having generous funders.