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(indeed, I once suggested to Ant that he bring in some rules, in order to create more invention in the narratives eg no guns, knives nor axes; no car cashes).
Sounds very Dogma, I like this Geoff, one of my favourite films is Von Trier's; The Five Obstructions (2003) . I just watched the Media 7 which I thought raised some interesting questions related to you mentioning the need to address this in education: Namely the 8 groups going through the three month scriptwriting 'bootcamp' (?), and your suggestion of addressing scriptwriting in school. It seems to me that it's not really the Film Commission's place to be overseeing/ workshopping the writing of scripts from scratch, especially with, as Islander mentioned, the girth of fine literature and quality writers this country has produced, and considering that hypothetically a perfect script can be produced on next to nothing with little outside input.
A key oversight of the Low Budget Features Escalator scheme was that their application process required the submission of three one page plot synopsis, but no scripts. Having applied, I felt our application was inadequate in that one of the synopsis had to be hocked together to make up numbers, but of more concern was that one of the synopsis didn't really do justice to the best story, the script of which had been worked on for three years, basically because the dialogue driven hilarity didn't really translate into a one pager. More often than not a good synopsis is no substitute for a great script, furthermore the skills required to write a synopsis are in no way indicative of one's scriptwriting ability, and so their selection process was primarily aiming for talent who could write a great one page story, a talent which can't realistically be testament to either scriptwriting or film making ability. That's a huge gamble for the commission and the 12 teams involved and I was glad Ant touched on it. It just seems like a harebrained way of going about things.
But to contextualize (and this won't be popular), if we can't provide free or interest free education for our kids, and when among our chief concerns as a nation are patronage to filmmakers/ musicians/ TV shows, decreasing the company tax, $9 million dollar temporary sheds, $30 million Expo Pavilions, $24 million national yachts and which channel will show the rugby, etc etc etc...
When we were prepared to lumber a generation with 12.5% interest loans for the luxury of a tertiary education, many of whom now make up the 1 million New Zealanders living offshore, many of whom share the burden of the $10 billion (growing at $1billion a year) owed to the NZ Government, a huge portion of which is interest on that education, while still attempting to present this glistening, cultured, media driven facade to the world, then our priorities as a nation and as people are arguably askew.
Health and education is everything, but if the mast breaks or the integrity of the hull can't be maintained then just keep that band playing.... is not a long term plan I can spare much loyalty to.
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9.x millions dollars for a temporary structure....
"Well now its time to say good by to Jed and all his kin.
And they would like to thank you folks fer kindly droppin in.
You're all invited back again to this locality
To have a heapin helpin of their hospitalityHillybilly that is. Set a spell, Take your shoes off.
Y'all come back now, y'hear?."
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I'll third it.
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1. What of the 3/4 of the population who don't live in Auckland? Demographically speaking shouldn't Party Central be in Levin?
2. How does Key's mindset on this conflict with the mindset whereby carrying open vessels in areas in close proximity to party central is an arrestable offence. He must think you're all ninja and the police are made of paddy wagons: The dude is inciting a riot. -
Great work David, thoroughly enjoyed that, the most interesting element for me was Jacqueline's use of 'odious', an inspired touch. It confounded the stereotypical Upper Hutt missive beautifully.
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but we'll always be able to paraphrase...and offer general directions to the vicinity thereof.
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fascinating
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Jesus + scrutiny = oxymoronic. What is it with whiteys and the J-bomb?
By just saying who was at this dinner that he put on the rate payer's credit card
Simple reallyThat'll do for me. He's been chastened.
Who are the front runners in the race besides these two lunatics?
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Which she is. Although bullshit is pretty harsh, as both her and Rudd are quite remarkable Australians ; )
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The key for NZ tonight will be to keep our shape for the full 90 minutes. Not 89 minutes, but the full whack.
Was surprisingly accurate, nice one Mike. Wisdom.