The plan for today - you may not have wanted to get this level of excruciating detail which is unfortunate, because you're going to get it - is to arise late after having a lie-in, thence to drink buckets of tea and have ice cream for breakfast, then to be a human-shaped cushion for Edna over the morning and afternoon, do a single (high-quality) blog post, and then head into the sinful big city* to partake of Pete Lloyd's stag do.
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| Sodom, Gomorrah and Hampton Dibney all rolled into one |
I don't expect to get home much before midnight, probably less than sober too, so don't expect a late-night Breaking News post. Check Facebook for any drunken revelations.
At the least it ought to provide a few photos for tomorrows posts.
Okay, Intro done, let the phaeton of phantasy roll gently forward!
Fear, Respect Or - Ha! - Friendship?
Here I provide proof, if it were needed, that there are people in this world, including my colleagues, who either fear or respect Conrad enough to get the aging misanthrope a card. Art? The evidence, please!
Don't worry, yes I have read and made a note of all the people who signed, and your names will go on a list of Those Not To Be Exterminated when The Day arrives.
"What is this 'The Day'?" I hear you question. Don't worry, you'll know. You'll know and no mistake!
Well Well Development Hell
It isn't immediately obvious to you the public, but the films you see on the silver screen are not necessarily the ones that were intended to be there.
"What can you mean, modest artisan? Can you enlarge?" I hear you call. I certainly can!
Before a single inch of film rolls through a camera's sprockets, a long pre-production process takes place. You have a script, the studios decide what to finance, the cast and crew get assembled, locations are scouted, preview film gets put together, storyboards are done; a whole plethora of stuff goes on.
Art?
Sometimes the development process goes on and on and on and on - in fact the film becomes stuck in "development hell" and risks never getting made. Studios might experience a change of personnel, with the new guys hating what their predecessors loved, or they might lose the time-limited rights to a property. Directors might want script re-writes, then leave, then the new director wants a new re-write. A particular star, able to green-light the film merely by agreeing to it, might commit to a different one instead. A competitor film with a similar theme might come out before yours - these and many others are reasons why a film gets stuck in DH.
I keep coming back to the trainwreck that was last year's "Fantastic Four", and studio commitment here was an issue. 20th Century Fox only had the rights to the F4 property for seven years so they had to either commit or drop it, and they left it mighty late in the process to green-light it, meaning a very hurried schedule.
| The good F4 film. ("Good" being relative) |
Another of those massive murals present in central Manchester, created by - well, it's not really obvious at all who's done them, nor why. Art? The evidence!
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| For the birds ... |
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* Manchester, in case there's any doubt.
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