They've spent a lot of time spending $100 million on special effects and $0.10 on script and story, when the best movies are all about STORY, not flash-bang-boom-zoom.
Sure, Avatar, Toy Story(123), etc. had good production values, but all of them started with an engaging story and characters and then used the film to bring the story and characters to life. Nothing more, but nothing less, either.
Let's not forget that people STILL go to see Shakespeare. Live. For nothing more, and nothing less, than story.
When Hollywood rediscovers storytelling, they'll have a shot at recovery, and not one moment before.
This is nothing more than an attempt by one greedy organization (the Faulkner estate) to extort money from another (Sony) by force and fraudulent abuse of copyright which is in principle, intended (cf. J.R.R. Tolkien) to protect *living* authors.
Since nothing has been heard lately from Mr. Faulkner, I wish a plague on both entities.
Lady Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Winston: My dear, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
----
On Aneurin Bevan: "He will be a great curse to this country in peace as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war." and "I can think of no better step to signal the inauguration of the National Health Service than that a person who so obviously needs psychiatric attention should be among the first of its patients."
After all, if somebody looks over a reader's shoulder while they're reading it in a Cafe, that reader should pay for the privilege of driving traffic to the printed edition.
Given the fact that the Chinese government has even more links and controls into their manufacturing infrastructure than we do, I can just hear somebody thinking, "If they don't believe in our innocence, it doesn't matter if we really do go ahead and plant trojan horses to prepare for a future cyberattack."
Who in their right mind would hire her after trying this stunt? She's made it right and plain that, if she doesn't like what the producers did with her work, she will sue.
Admittedly "Innocence" is a pretty egregious example, but nobody would have any faith that she wouldn't do it later for something even less egregious.
There are still people in the entertainment business who consider it a felony to rip a CD, or listen (even once) to a song without having to pay them for it and ask "Mother may I?"
NO preview this track buttons. I think she's figuring that bandwidth etc. for the free album isn't that expensive, so go ahead and use that for the preview.
I checked out the tracks, found the two songs I sampled to be interesting and haunting, and dropped $20 for a FLAC version.
Now THAT's the way to treat a potential fan.
Update while this is in progress (started playing the download while typing): This is good stuff! Thank you for introducing me to this artist.
The law is an artificial construct. A machine written in code. It is a very badly implemented machine written by greedy and selfish people for their own purposes and to hell with the rest of us. It is certainly not some holy tablet handed down by Moses, me lad.
Civil disobedience has been correctly summarized by Thomas Jefferson: "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."
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They can't fire us. Slaves have to be sold.
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Actually, the lawyers are inspired by Faulkner
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Re: And you thought Jar-Jar Binks was bad...
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Episode 7 - The Empire Has Won
Episode 9 - Vice President in Charge of Heavy-Handed Copyright Threats Luke Skywalker Resigns in Disgust
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Darn straight. "The Man From Earth" is one of the best films ever made and it was made on a very frayed shoestring.
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Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.
It's as if somebody running a golf course in New York could shut down warnings about Sandy because "they're bad for business."
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Hollywood Lost Track Long Ago
Sure, Avatar, Toy Story(123), etc. had good production values, but all of them started with an engaging story and characters and then used the film to bring the story and characters to life. Nothing more, but nothing less, either.
Let's not forget that people STILL go to see Shakespeare. Live. For nothing more, and nothing less, than story.
When Hollywood rediscovers storytelling, they'll have a shot at recovery, and not one moment before.
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Legalized Extortion
Since nothing has been heard lately from Mr. Faulkner, I wish a plague on both entities.
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They'd jail Churchill under this law.
Lady Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Winston: My dear, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
----
On Aneurin Bevan: "He will be a great curse to this country in peace as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war." and "I can think of no better step to signal the inauguration of the National Health Service than that a person who so obviously needs psychiatric attention should be among the first of its patients."
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The Downfall goes Gangnam
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The Newspapers Need to Tax Their Readers
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Boosted my total to $70 over this
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Don't Give Them Ideas
This is going to backfire on us big time.
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She Is Now Officially Unemployable As An Actress
Admittedly "Innocence" is a pretty egregious example, but nobody would have any faith that she wouldn't do it later for something even less egregious.
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They clearly understand what can't be replaced.
Brains and customers can't.
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Actually, it seems like they never DO adapt.
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Interesting Experience Over There
I checked out the tracks, found the two songs I sampled to be interesting and haunting, and dropped $20 for a FLAC version.
Now THAT's the way to treat a potential fan.
Update while this is in progress (started playing the download while typing): This is good stuff! Thank you for introducing me to this artist.
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Civil disobedience has been correctly summarized by Thomas Jefferson: "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."
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