I'm sure that the idea that to properly finance films, you need government (ie: the taxpayer's) money will be of [i]huge[/i] interest to Hollywood.
Did anyone mention Nic Cage yet?
Although his presence in a film is usually a handy indication that it's not something I'd enjoy.
Obviously, you haven't seen "Adaptation" or "Bad Lieutenant". Or "Raising Arizona". Or "Face Off".
Raising Arizona was a very good film.
Actually, he was in Kick Ass too, and that wasn't bad.
If you star in 200 films a year, some of them are bound to end up being halfway watchable.
The list of bad Nic Cage films would be far, far longer though, wouldn't it?
Have you seen this pic from two different films?
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Gutted I can't find the brilliant blog page of the guy who put it together.
Aha, found it now.
Please enjoy...
[url= http://www.cracked.com/blog/lets-play-nicolas-cage/ ]http://www.cracked.com/blog/lets-play-nicolas-cage/[/url]
Mr Cage is in Rumble Fish and that is a classic.
Eddie Murphy was in 48 Hours, but I tend to avoid his later work as well as Cage's.
What I hate most is 'if you really believe in yourself you can do it'
when the character fails it's not because they are rubbish/lazy/didn't train/failed maths it's because they don't have enough belief in themselves.
People never wipe their arses in films do they.
Straight in the cubicle, maybe a couple of noises (depending on the genre) then BAM straight to the flush!
The profanisaurus suggests that what must be happening here is a 'glory wipe'.
I'm sure that the idea that to properly finance films, you need government (ie: the taxpayer's) money will be of huge interest to Hollywood.
Nothing to do government money. There used to be a quota on film distribution - something like 10% of films playing in UK cinemas had to have been UK produced. The Thatcher government abolished the quota, after caving in to all the petitions, protests and eventually riots from the cinema-going public demanding that this 10% should instead be made up of US produced films that would otherwise have not cut the mustard.
I worked for a Norwegian production company recently - 1 ticket in 5 sold in Norwegian cinemas is for a Norwegian produced film. Its was the best resourced, best paid film I've ever worked on and they apologised for not paying me more. Dinky little Norway, tiny population, no Norwegian speaking countries to export their films to - able to support a thriving film industry through the patronage of their audience
Although there is the odd bit of government or lottery subsidy in the UK it could only ever be peanuts and it mostly consists of top up funding and support in kind - like location services. Films are funded from the profits of earlier films, without those profits theres nothing to top up. No distribution no profit. No profit no next film.
I watched Dirty Harry last night. The overwhelming feeling I came away with was that he was a truly appalling police man.
trucks / wagons/ lorries that catch up with fast cars to ram them from behind!!!! Grrrrrr
