Sometimes I wish I was a member of the Directors Guild of America.
It was quite interesting opening up my netflix envalope, finding Full Tilt Boogie, playing it and discovering the problems the production of From Dusk Till Dawn. It wasn't all problems, but that's all I'm going to talk about today.
You see, this was a film shot non-union in hollywood. It had a director that was also serving as a camera operator, editor and I'm sure he also did more than that. Unions don't like films to be made non-union. In the old days, unions were needed to make sure the studios didn't take all the credit and so everyone got the health care and pay they deserved. These days, while some of that is still nessesary, mostly they appear to just be bullying independant films who usually can't afford to pay a unionized crew. They also like to prevent unionized writers/directors from having creative freedom with their movies. A classic example of this is George Lucas being fined by the Directors Guild of America for refusing to have a standard title sequence in his Star Wars films, the reason why he then quit the guild. Recently, Robert Rodríguez resigned from the guild before starting work on Sin City. Rodríguez insisted that Sin City's author, Frank Miller, receive a "co-director" credit with him because he considered the visual style of Miller's comic art to be just as important as his own in the film. However, the Directors' Guild of America would not allow it, citing that only "legitimate teams" could share the director's credit (i.e. the Wachowski Brothers). So in other words, the unions require a bit of strictness and a bit of money. This makes it easy to be anti-union, at least when it comes to film-making.
For the past several weeks I have been making a video for the Eden Computer Clubhouse. None of you will ever see this video. Not because I don't want you to, but because of a privacy issue with Intel and the fact that there are children at this place. And I can understand that, it's probably not a good idea for minor's faces put up all over the internet without their knowing...unless of course Intel decides to do it but anyway. I don't get to keep my work, my peice of art. Its for a legal reason and I can respect that.
However, not only am I not allowed to keep my work, but I can't even put my name on it. Now, I should be able to do that, right? If Intel wanted to pay some artist to paint a painting for the main lobby of their main campus that artist would put his signiture on it, right? So, sometimes I wish I were a member of the Directors Guild of America so they could use their union might to force the boss to put my name on the movie where it belongs.
Maybe I should just get to know Harvey and Bob Weinstein.
There's Robert with the Weinsteins. I was listening to his commentary on Desperado, and even though I don't plan on ever making movies like him...I still think that I will be making movies in his style. In other words, I would want to hold the camera, I would want to edit. I just hope that I could do better than Spy Kids. But I got the distict feeling from the commentary like he wanted as many people as possible to get into the buisness. He said, "I hope to meet you someday." And, I hope to meet you too Robert.
Anyway...Summer is officially over. School's back up which means two things. Even though I slacked off towards the end...towards the begining even...I no longer have to write a whole review for each movie I see. But I will add the little mini reviews. We'll get to those in a minute. The other thing is, I have an english class. This means essays. Tons and tons of essays. And this blog will be the peer review epicenter. So get ready for that. Now on with the (mini)Reviews!
Saw Broken Flowers. Was cool.
And Elevator to the Gallows. Was cool.
Also saw The Aristocrats. Was cool.
Wow, 3 was cools. Go see them if you can. Also, I saw all 3 of those at landmark theaters. Landmark is getting pretty cheap now, they don't even give you tickets. They just print out shit on recipt paper. That's not cool! Anyway, I think I've written enough here. If this post doesn't make sense, it's cause it was written over a span of a week or two. No more than 3 words at a time, really...anyway talk to ya later.
You see, this was a film shot non-union in hollywood. It had a director that was also serving as a camera operator, editor and I'm sure he also did more than that. Unions don't like films to be made non-union. In the old days, unions were needed to make sure the studios didn't take all the credit and so everyone got the health care and pay they deserved. These days, while some of that is still nessesary, mostly they appear to just be bullying independant films who usually can't afford to pay a unionized crew. They also like to prevent unionized writers/directors from having creative freedom with their movies. A classic example of this is George Lucas being fined by the Directors Guild of America for refusing to have a standard title sequence in his Star Wars films, the reason why he then quit the guild. Recently, Robert Rodríguez resigned from the guild before starting work on Sin City. Rodríguez insisted that Sin City's author, Frank Miller, receive a "co-director" credit with him because he considered the visual style of Miller's comic art to be just as important as his own in the film. However, the Directors' Guild of America would not allow it, citing that only "legitimate teams" could share the director's credit (i.e. the Wachowski Brothers). So in other words, the unions require a bit of strictness and a bit of money. This makes it easy to be anti-union, at least when it comes to film-making.
For the past several weeks I have been making a video for the Eden Computer Clubhouse. None of you will ever see this video. Not because I don't want you to, but because of a privacy issue with Intel and the fact that there are children at this place. And I can understand that, it's probably not a good idea for minor's faces put up all over the internet without their knowing...unless of course Intel decides to do it but anyway. I don't get to keep my work, my peice of art. Its for a legal reason and I can respect that.
However, not only am I not allowed to keep my work, but I can't even put my name on it. Now, I should be able to do that, right? If Intel wanted to pay some artist to paint a painting for the main lobby of their main campus that artist would put his signiture on it, right? So, sometimes I wish I were a member of the Directors Guild of America so they could use their union might to force the boss to put my name on the movie where it belongs.
Maybe I should just get to know Harvey and Bob Weinstein.
There's Robert with the Weinsteins. I was listening to his commentary on Desperado, and even though I don't plan on ever making movies like him...I still think that I will be making movies in his style. In other words, I would want to hold the camera, I would want to edit. I just hope that I could do better than Spy Kids. But I got the distict feeling from the commentary like he wanted as many people as possible to get into the buisness. He said, "I hope to meet you someday." And, I hope to meet you too Robert.
Anyway...Summer is officially over. School's back up which means two things. Even though I slacked off towards the end...towards the begining even...I no longer have to write a whole review for each movie I see. But I will add the little mini reviews. We'll get to those in a minute. The other thing is, I have an english class. This means essays. Tons and tons of essays. And this blog will be the peer review epicenter. So get ready for that. Now on with the (mini)Reviews!
Saw Broken Flowers. Was cool.
And Elevator to the Gallows. Was cool.
Also saw The Aristocrats. Was cool.
Wow, 3 was cools. Go see them if you can. Also, I saw all 3 of those at landmark theaters. Landmark is getting pretty cheap now, they don't even give you tickets. They just print out shit on recipt paper. That's not cool! Anyway, I think I've written enough here. If this post doesn't make sense, it's cause it was written over a span of a week or two. No more than 3 words at a time, really...anyway talk to ya later.
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