NaPM April 13, 2018

[RiverNotch]

About the Current Situation

for Mercedes


The bottom line is we changed an industry:
now everyone wants their own epic franchise.
Every studio -- every country

with nothing to its name
but landscapes, cows, and those big-eyed
big-ass men in skirts screaming

like schoolboys -- every director
with a vision. But it's hard to save a world:
it took us three movies

and what we showed in the theaters
was barely the whole story.
We cut out most of the party.

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I hope I did your country justice

You sure did! I love it. Genius.   Friends of mine worked on sets for LOTR and Avatar, for years - most of the best artistic talent in NZ worked and partied together for those years. Their stories are even more bizarre than the ones they worked on.

I think at about the same day I wrote this I learned a bit about some issues regarding the production of LOTR -- well, of The Hobbit, at least. At any rate, here's a bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi7t_g5QObs