That's A Riff On "Bang Bang Shooty Shooty"
Which I occasionally end with "Hot Patootie", and I refer to a particular film genre, possibly exemplified by <thinks> "Hard Boiled", which has been definitely described as "The most violent, gun-crazy action flick you will ever see" and indeed the only thing to challenge it in the decades since it was made is possibly "The Matrix", and I'll stop right there because tangents. Art!
The baby is crucial
In fact this Intro is about film reshoots, not guns, which might be of less immediate appeal yet which has a fascination all of it's own.
Plus Conrad learned a couple of technical tweaks this evening that will stand him in good stead in the future.
Okayyyy! We now turn out critical eye on a Youtube channel new to me, "WDW Pro", which is voiced and presented by 'Pro', who covers his pixelated face with sunglasses and hat, all the better to be mysterious and anonymous. Art!
Pro's vlog was taking aim squarely at "Snow White", the Rachel Zegler version intended for release in 2025, which Conrad has just learned, to his wide-eyed horror, is a musical. That's me out of the audience, then. The film already has an uphill struggle since Zeggy went around trashing the original, declaring her film was going to be about a female resistance leader liberating her kingdom from imperialistic domination, with it's unlimited rice pudding <Cont. Page 94>. She was hastily sent to appear on chat shows to try and negate the ill-will she had created, to mixed results. Art!
Initially, there were no dwarves. Instead you had the Seven Magical Beings as seen above; Number Seven is lurking behind that last person.
Then the flip-flopping began. So much flip-flopping! More like a logic gate undergoing a current surge, because Hay Pesto! the Seven Magical Beings were gone as if they'd never existed, and instead in came the - Art!
Seven Dwarves. No news yet on whether they will get a title credit, and yes, they were all done via CGI, meaning lots and lots and lots of computer work.
Okay, Zeggy herself has confirmed one lot of reshoots, which could well refer to all the new 7DCGI. Her co-star, Gal Gadot, has also confirmed a reshoot has been done, probably a completely different one. Zeggy and Gaddy, incidentally, do not get on at all and have conducted barbed political attacks on each other, which makes that uphill path all the steeper. Art!
Pro then ventured into the realms of rumour, which he candidly admitted, saying that An Insider Source (staying anonymous because they like getting a regular paycheck) had asserted that the films entire colour palette was being amended to be less dark and (hopefully) more child-friendly. Conrad not sure that kids will be interested in a fantasy version of "Ché!". Art!
Re-doing the colour palette for an entire film sounds EXPENSIVE. Also time-consuming, and the release date is in March 2025.
There have apparently been rumours of another reshoot, one which adds in a younger actress playing a young Snow White, who will have a musical number written for her and establish an origins story for SW, and how there was a mix up on the maternity ward and she's actually the daughter of the local Jacobin rebels leader, sworn to overthrow the Empire she came to be a princess.
More rumours swirled. Before that, allow me to put up a Trailer shot for SW.
Here's another thing I learned; one can boot up Google Trends to discover what people are searching for on teh Interwebz (actually Google), and - Art!
From what I can understand, the spike there is in August, when the trailer above was released.
The juiciest bit of gossip Mister An Anonymous Source had to deliver was that the overall cost of SW has absolutely ballooned, and it was originally in the $300 million range, which is pretty big potatoes. They claimed that the budget is heading towards $500 million, which seems exaggerated and is surely no more than $400 million. However - that word again! - it's not impossible because reshoots are always verrrry expensive, and I dug up a salient factoid about "Solo - A Starry Wartz Story". This was given over to industry stalwart Ron Howard after the original cut didn't make it, and he reshot 70% of the film, doubling it's original budget. End total = $275 million.
For those who need to know, we will get complete budget figures in 2026, when UK tax documents are published, and Disney has to file those budget figures to get tax rebates on the cost of shooting in the UK. At which point a lot of Disney executives skin colour is going to turn snow white.
I also dug up a clip on Youtube Shorts. Art!
From a year ago. So 'showfactssh-' got it badly wrong, because they didn't realise how much money Disney is prepared to burn in order to get this sucker to market.
A Finger In Many, Many Pies
If you have been following my brief descriptions of Ol' Heinie Himmler from Longenrich's biography, then you'll know that he was a consummate empire-builder, ever on the lookout to expand his organisations at the expense of others. Hitler, you see, liked his minions to all be in competition with each other, so as not to either gang up on him or become too powerful individually. Art!
Longenrich cruelly (but accurately) points out Ol' Heinie would have had a hard time passing one of his own 'racial profilings' thanks to his broad nose and receding chin.
ANYWAY One of his organisations that I'll bet you never heard of before was the 'Ahnenerbe' or 'Ancestral Heritage', which carried out research into - you may be ahead of me here - the heritage of ancestors. This ballooned in the Thirties to cover: clan emblems and family crests; prehistory; linguistics; folklore; lexicology; ethnic research; classical philology and archaeology. Art!
This is the 'Externsteine', a sandstone rock formation in the Teutoberger Wald, which for reasons obscure to me, the Nazis loved loved loved. It became the ward of the Ahnenerbe 'Centre for Germanic Studies'.
So, the more fingers Ol' Heinie had inserted into pies, the more powerful and influential he became.
Of Tomato Pie
If you recall AND YOU OUGHT TO FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR DESCENDANTS WHEN I TAKE OVER - gentle reminder there - Conrad had written out a recipe for 'Tomato Pie' and unsuccessfully looked for a 9" pie dish to bake it in.
Well, I went ahead and made and baked it on Monday evening. Art!
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I have, so far, and we're talking Wednesday here, not bothered to actually eat any of it. So I shall have to reheat and bring you up to speed.
"I Was Very, Very Drunk At The Time Your Honour!
Conrad just spotted this by-line on the Beeb's News webpage, and figured there must be a story there. Art!
Hmmm apparently he was not under the influence of drink or drugs at the time he stole the bus and crashed it into a barricade on the Unification Bridge, which is the worst-named bridge ever (it divides the two nations).
Okayyyyy - mental illness? Matey had defected from Norkland 10 years ago, so this is no overnight repentance or recognition. During his 10 years sojourn in Sorkland 10,000 Nork defectors came to the south, with a whopping 31 going in the other direction. Possibly he wanted to go back due to financial reasons - a kind of won-won situation*. Art!
Finally -
Not only have the British autumnal monsoons finished, at least temporarily, the sun it out, courtesy of strong winds shredding the cloud cover. Yes, it's cold, BUT it's dry, which is a far more preferable state of affairs. It will soon be time to break out the heated gloves.
* Sorry (won being Korean currency)
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