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Skriven 2007-07-30 22:09:05 av Josh Hill (2750.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Reports from Comic-Con
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:45:49 GMT, Amy Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com>
wrote:

>>>On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:33:19 -0400, Josh Hill wrote
>(in article <ee3ta39ui6q8nepfbc9kamsn6enr9ljv9g@4ax.com>):
>
>> Hey, cool. Ask them if they'll leave the dead body floating face-down,
>> streaming blood. Or the sharks, if it's a Bond flick.  <<
>
>A Bond flick!  I wish!  And nope, the dead body isn't in the pool in this 
>one, alas.  Based on who's directing it, though, there's been a lot of joking 
>around here about small folk -- or big apes -- whose hairy feet could 
>potentially clog the pool filter...

Wow. That is big. What's he making? King Frodo? Bilbo Kong?

>>> What I'm thinking is that maybe it would be a good idea to have them
>> shoot a feature here. I'd be open to something appropriate --
>> Nosferatu's lair, say, or a nuclear holocaust flick, or the house in a
>> zombie movie the day after the zombies attack. On the other hand,
>> perhaps it would make more sense to do something that would call for
>> repairs and, ah, modifications. I mean, they could do something set
>> in, oh, say, a 2000-acre ducal estate. Thwackbodget, call it. The
>> great house at Thwackbodget has 200 rooms, so the new wing would only
>> need 188, and the ballroom could do double duty as the chapel if you
>> redressed it. Then all you'd have to do is knock down a few hundred
>> houses to make the park. And set out man traps. <<
>
>Yeah, the key is to get them to do a film that requires _upgrades_ of some 
>kind.  The neighbors down at the other end of the block, where they're 
>filming -- who live in split ranches, which look more 70s than the houses on 
>my end -- are going to have their houses painted in outdated 1970s colors, 
>have their modern garage doors replaced with older-style ones, satellite 
>dishes hidden, etc. etc., so in most cases, they're probably going to want 
>the production to put the houses back as they were.  Still, they'll have a 
>new paint job out of it, and the location manager promised they'll be doing 
>it properly -- scraping and priming and all, both times (the 1970s paint job 
>_and_ the repaint to the original color).  I'm torn between being unhappy 
>they're filming down at the other end (i.e. I'm missing out on a free 
>repainting), and pleased that our end of the block doesn't resemble 1970s 
>Norristown (a much more blue-collar enclave than our actual town).  :-)

Man, they have it all wrong. I mean, if it were me, I'd want them to
leave the house alone and restore /me/ to my 1970's appearance. Less
the hair, which was always getting in water fountains. Not that we
couldn't use the repainting: the top half of the house is white, and
the bottom half is red, and they're divided by a scaffold only no
painters ever appear on the scaffold, and it's unlikely that they will
since the contractor seems to have taken a powder. Wonder how much
scaffolds bring on Ebay?

-- 
Josh

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