Muse: Hooray for Wellywood (Really!)
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Kracklite, in reply to
Proof, inverting Hannah Arendt, that banality is evil.
Since its quotarama on Hard news, here's Arthur Conan Doyle: "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself." Hence Steve Fitzgerald imagines that he's a creative genius and has absolutely no idea why anyone should think that he's just a dick.
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Islander, in reply to
et’s not be disingenuous about why Jackson can get big movies there – cheap skilled labour. Somehow, I don’t think a sign saying “The Bangalore of the South Pacific” would have quite the same cache
That man, in a future era, will be acknowledged as a deadhand and killer of a potentially rich ANZ film culture. HOWEVER, Taika Waititi, Gaylene Preston, Marian Evans, and others will be acknowledged as people who kept real ANZ film-life going...
I truly think that films will go on for many many decades yet, however they are delivered to viewers' eyes-
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Also, what is it about trivial things like this (and yes, as much as I think the sign is a fucking stupid idea, it's still trivial) that makes people so pissed off? When was the last time 100+ people bothered to get off their arses to protest against the actions of a business around here?
I wonder if, precisely because no-one * disagrees that it's a stupid idea, the energy we would normally expend arguing the point with someone is all directed towards the WIAL, and each finds his/her anger amplified by others rather than absorbed.
* Except WIAL itself and, it seems, Stephen Franks, who last I knew lived on the city side of Mt Vic and thus doesn't have to look at the stupid thing. At least if DPF liked it I'd have the satisfaction of seething at someone who's worth the effort.
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Islander, in reply to
Or, if we agree it’s a bloody awful idea and, maybe, we can possibly ’suade idiots in charge of the moneybox to actually HEAR….a lot of us?
IF NOT - well, we can do other things. Refuse - as I have done- to view their bloody nasty & crude films? Dont visit (and make sure whanau dont visit) their unlovely sites? And - most positively - support other truly inventive creative film-makers-
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Islander, can you tell us more about what offends you about the kawa of the museum or point me to where I might find out more?
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
A more apt sign regarding our film industry would be “Cheaper than Mexicans, but we speak English”
So. I suppose WELLYWOOD would be cheaper.Ah grass hopper (that kid kung fu movie quote)
This Mexican speaking English, thinks it's more of a WOOLLYWELD at the mo what with techies catching fire in the studio. -
I'm kinda with George on the Asteron building. It's far from a great work of architecture, but it doesn't deserve the amount of ire it's getting from some. I guess I could understand a position like "they had the opportunity to create something notable, but instead we got meh". But it isn't awful.
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Sacha, in reply to
their bloody nasty & crude films
The airport company does not make movies.
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jessica scott, in reply to
I think another reason the sign has caused so much outrage is the process of it being announced in advance, yet the public being told that it's a done deal. If it had suddenly popped up over night, people still would have been upset, but I think would have come around to it, or grumbled but not made too much fuss.
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Sacha, in reply to
Arthur Conan Doyle
What did you make of that new Sherlock show?
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Sacha, in reply to
what is it about trivial things like this (and yes, as much as I think the sign is a fucking stupid idea, it's still trivial) that makes people so pissed off?
Culture is powerful, as are names.
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Islander, in reply to
Cliff Whiting(major carver & designer of the museum marae) is Te Whanau a Apanui - -they do not have women speaking & that is
the current protocol at what is supposed to be a national marae. I deeply deeply object to that- Raymond, go check out the protocol/kawa of "Te Papa Tongarewa"(even that name is offensive to some of us) and maybe- see why?
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Islander, in reply to
Peter Jackson movies – was I too oblique?
May I make it explicit?
Peter Jackson is a director of splatter movies.
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Kracklite, in reply to
Haven't seen it - I live in a gully where I don't get reception and I'm a late adopter when it comes to new tech.
I have however heard a lot of good things about it and I'm really looking forward to catching it on DVD. Since the series is a revision, I don't need to wring my hands over whether Benedict Cumberbatch is better than Jeremy Brett :)
I have also, just recently, by DVD, discovered that Matt Smith is definitely my favourite Doctor since Tom Baker.
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Sacha, in reply to
You seem to be holding the film producer responsible for the airport company's sign. Boycotting one will not address the other.
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Sacha, in reply to
Since the series is a revision
A very smart one, I'd say
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Islander, in reply to
Sacha - I dont think you being deliberately obtuse BUT-
just where do you think the influence for that sign
is coming from? Hmmm?And boycotting Jackson's shit actually works quite well-
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I did notice those exact questions from DPF - the answers quite clearly being "their execution of their property rights" and "Wellington Council via a non-notified consent". There's a bunch of interesting questions here around any limits on property rights in a communal society and comparisons around "what if they'd chucked cheap apartments all over that hill instead?" Are there natural limits of property rights when the sheer scale of your personal execution of them impinges on others property - in this case visual, in others sound levels or smell?
But I wish someone would posit those questions - TBH you rather lost an opportunity there and awful little gnomes don't quite qualify I'm afraid.
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recordari, in reply to
What did you make of that new Sherlock show?
Just watched the first, and want to see more. It's certainly not shit, Sherlock.
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Kracklite, in reply to
So I hear. I shiver with antici-
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
just where do you think the influence for that sign is coming from? Hmmm?
Madam's right Sir!
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
So, what do you feel about graffitti, Craig? Art or vandalism?
Ooh, I was really hoping it would be a struggle to fill my false equivalence bingo card. I’m not going to commission Askew One to decorate the retaining wall in the garden any time soon, but if you think the whole Poynton Terrace farce served any kind of public good please don’t stand for the Auckland City Council.
I guess history will judge whether Askew or Rob Shields have made the greater contribution to the cultural life and general well-being of Auckland. But I’m pretty damn sure that if I wanted to live in a community where the local government gets to dictate what colour I paint the walls, I’d move to the place they did the exteriors for The Truman Show.
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Islander, in reply to
Goodness!
Talk about 'duck'- -
Sherlock? I was mightily impressed–very smart, in a postmodern fashion, but with style and grace. The only real adjustment was trying to forget Martin Freeman's persona in The Office.
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One good thing that could come of the sign not going ahead is that a large number of otherwise politically apathetic youngsters will see that vociferous protest and demonstration actually does have the power to change things they don't like. Because sadly most protests don't change a thing. This issue might be trivial, but the sign not going ahead would still be a victory for the will of the people. We don't have many such victories so when they happen they're worth celebrating.
Or we could just end up with a sign that we all hate as our city's welcome mat, a permanent reminder that we were powerless in the face of the interests of a single misguided company. Unfortunately that's the way these things usually play out.
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