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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Simon Grigg,
WWW
So we did invent the Internet! Damn American's stealing our thunder.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Islander,
An Angel at My Table
Having seen that in a cinema in Japan while living there, I can say it made me almost pathologically desperate to 'visit' New Zealand, even though I felt like a tourist for the first three months after coming back.
Wasn't there some mention of Redheads round here? Love that movie to bits. Must watch it again.
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Nope. Boy is a film for us.
I'd also question this.
This Sundance Festival reviewer didn't think Boy was just 'a film for us' either.
Though I have spent the past few days trudging through the snow of Park City, BOY transported me to a seaside summer in the Southern Pacific, but warmed my heart before my body. It is, by far, my favorite film of the festival thus far.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to giovanni tiso,
And I'm not one for considering the peddling of such ideologies irrelevant,
FTR, me neither. Suffice to say, when I seek ideological resonance, Hollywood is second only to Faux News in being my last port of call.
At least The Onion has self-parody on it's side.
ETA: In light of Gio's comment below, I meant self-parody in the positive sense of a satirical news site, not the New Zealand tourism industry. I think.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Che Tibby,
The only bad humans are of Middle Eastern stock, just as the men of the West invade the Gulf? I don't know, you tell me.
And? The fact that 'Hollywood' panders to the 'American popular psyche' is of no great surprise, or particularly newsworthy, is it? Irritating, yes, but there are far more sinister and subversive forces in place than a group of people whose primary goal is get bums on seats in Cinemas. Never misunderestimate [sic] the commercial power of patriotism. However misdirected.
Oliver Stone? Well, that's another matter.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I think the claims that The Hobbit will be good for tourism are very optimistic.
This I agree with. The Vikram wedding at the weekend is more likely to bring tourists here. Certainly more so than the cricket.
You keep thinking, surely we must have bottomed out, and then we discover a whole new false bottom. So much for our satisfaction of England disseminating Australia.
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But I think people are going to tire of it in a big way - simply because it isn't real.
My impression was they already had. I certainly have. And even with the new film (s), whether or not they succeed, in whatever sense you choose, my (almost certainly naive) wish is that Boy will do more to attract people to our shores over the coming years than a bunch of hairy... whoops.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I think one could probably build a pretty good case based on Return of the King alone, but congratulations on missing this particular point.
So Tolkien, right, not Peter Jackson, or the New Zealand Film industry?
Seems a lot of conflating going on here. Or is that just me?
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Hard News: Behaving badly at the bottom…, in reply to BenWilson,
Anyone else watch Sleeping Dogs on Maori Televison last night?
Found myself laughing ironically at how completely implausible it all was. Especially now our Skyhawks are in mothballs. Can you even imagine an air strike on a bivouac in one of our national parks?
We don't have reams of historical precedent for anything here.
So we keep borrowing everyone else's, or getting Weta Workshop to digitally enhance the one's we've got.
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Undies, undies, Troggs.