Posts by giovanni tiso
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I believe you may be thinking of The Price of Mirkwood, Ian.
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And where's their union on this?
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Has it occurred to you they're upset and fearful for their livelihoods?
Are they unionised?
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If the Hobbit isn't made here, then the NZ taxpayer saves $90mln (15% of the budget).
I'm pretty sure the line items of the budget that could be claimed back would be a fraction of the total budget.
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Like other people have pointed out this might mean moving to a more unionsed country, just one in which the union is less likely to try and pick a fight with the studio.
Or in which the union is less shambolically run. But there is also an accusation being levelled here that an Australian union in the person of Mr Whipp was trying to either make some money out of The Hobbit (the document that Russell linked to) or serve the interests of Australian actors as opposed to their Kiwi counterparts. Them are big accusation and at any rate we can't have it both ways: was this a shambles of an honest industrial action, or a dishonest one that achieved its objectives? If critics could make up their mind either way it would help the discussion.
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Be gentle with me, I'm still trying to get my head around the update that Graham linked to above. Employing somebody with basic communication skills would seem to me to be a matter of great urgency on the union's side.
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I'd also like to point out I'm touch typing right now and, sorry, but no.
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An actor who wishes to remain nameless. Now I've seen everything.
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If you ever wondered what gay inches were.
DENMARK! (shakes fist)
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Actors themselves were hamstrung. An entire pre-production was wastefully and expensively halted, for a flimsy and miniscule cause that the union could not seem to articulate clearly to anyone, at any point.
Least of all to themselves.