Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to giovanni tiso,
So saying that maybe not everyone is happy to be a contractor amounts to patronising our host? Jesus. That outdoes even you.
And who the fuck has said otherwise? BTW, I prefer being addressed by my proper name 'Good God Almighty' -- leave the sprog out of it.
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Hard News: A very roundabout review of…, in reply to TracyMac,
...oh, and to throw a cat in amongst the pigeons of so-serious sci-fi fandom, would Neuromancer have been so popular without Tron preparing the way in a visual sense? I wonder.
I think it would have been -- 'cyberpunk' didn't spring full formed from the Muse's womb with the publication of Neuromancer in 1984. His first short story, 'Fragments of a Hologram Rose' was published in 1977. And 'Burning Chrome', which is widely credited as the first appearance of the term "cyberspace", appeared in 1982. Proto-cyberpunks like Burce Sterling and John Shirley were also picking up on something in the air before Tron came along.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I like how we're talking about Peter Jackson scheming and lying to get a law changed that saw him lose a court case, and bringing up that very court case is an irrelevant strawman.
No dear, I think patronising people (like our host) who is perfectly happy as a contractor is a dick move. YMMV.
I'm rather short of sympathy for employers who get dragged over the judicial nutmeg grater for not doing their homework. Bryson was also perfectly entitled to seek legal redress. Never heard anyone on PAS say any different.
Put the fire out when you're done.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Yes, that evil mr Bryson, who reckoned he should be entitled to the rights of an employee seeing that he was treated like one. How very dare he? Plus, what's wrong with the man? Can't he be like "most workers"?
Hope you brought plenty of kerosene and a box of matches to set that straw man going. As far as I can tell (not being an employment law nerd), that case came out of a contact that was - to put it mildly - a dog's dinner and pretty much all the informed commentary I've seen has been reluctant to spin out a general precedent from a highly specific set of circumstances.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Clint Fern,
I think you would have to believe in the tooth fairy to think that Fran Walsh didn't know Jacksons thoughts on this and so it would strongly appear that she was not telling the truth.
Nice carpet bombing with qualifiers there - are you calling Fran Walsh a liar or not?
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Ross Mason,
Has/does Jackson - or any of his companies - made/make any donations to any political parties? Lets see now, which one? Hmmm.......
Well, jog along to the Electoral Commission and tell us what you find. If you really want to get into the new season's tinfoil hat, Jackson should be personally bankrolling Labour's election campaign next year -- the tax credits and whatnot for the LoTR trilogy were far from petty cash and all on Michael Cullen's watch, IIRC.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Peter Cox,
Anyway, glad Helen Kelly managed to get the point in at the end of the interview that the only way we’ll get a stable workplace is allowing the film industry to engage in legally binding collective bargaining agreements, instead of the vague ‘we promise to be good’ system we have at the moment.
Which makes one wonder why the CTU (of whom AENZ/MEAA is an affiliate) didn't consider that a priority for action during nine years of a union-friendly government? You know, like Irish Equity fecking did? Its not as if the issue exactly dropped out of a time-space vortex a couple of months back...
It's really rather embarrasing when Irish actors have turned out to be a damn sight smarter and more focused than their Kiwi brethren. There goes the stereotype of feckless artistes who'll do anything for liquor and the occasional baked potato.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Kind of a meet point, since the don't work order was rescinded by then, wouldn't you say?
Not when Trevor Mallard is still repeating the "truthiness" that there was no boycott, never was a boycott and we've always been at war with Eurasia. Or something.
Yes, I'm somewhat unsurprised that Warners were (gasp!) putting their own spin on things and (shock!) actually brought their own agenda to the table. Just not swallowing Helen Kelly's retcon either -- but if it does repair her own dented credibility, I guess you can't blame her for trying it on.
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But mostly, if Warners cared nothing about a global "don't work" order (which would be odd)
Even if Warners didn't care, Ian McKellen (active member of Actor's Equity UK for over 40 years) and Cate Blanchett (who is on both sides of the talent/management equation as co-artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company) most certainly do. They'd professionally be unemployable if they even took a meeting in defiance of a stop-work order from their union, and anyone who says otherwise is (in Gio's elegant turn of phrase) a fucking liar. Or thick as a crusty bucket of pigshit, and nowhere near as useful.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Also known in standard English as being a fucking liar, yes.
Yes, just as Robyn Malcom and Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Helen Kelly either lied about the stop-work order in the first place, or are remarkably stupid. (With Mallard, it just saves time to operate under the presumption of feral truthiness until proven otherwise.) Myself, I'd go with "liar" because anyone that idiotic and feckless should be kept away from industrial negotiations with a cattle prod.
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