below the line crew earning $300/day (or acting as unpaid volunteers) on a production while sharing in none of the $200m profit of a runaway b.o. success*is* actual exploitation, even if it's normalized in the industry.
The best thing you can do when putting together a low budget film is consider what you *actually* need to pull off your vision. Film is inherently built on needless excess. Write for your budget instead of creating unethical working conditions.
David Lynch made sure the crew of Eraserhead who worked for little to no money all had a financial stake in the movie. For many of them, it was a financial bedrock that lasted for their entire lives.
Dude beside me at the restaurant just told his wife that he cheated on her and she is crying loudly, over at my table it’s miller time though. #millertime
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: "I recently rewatched "A Brighter Summer Day" when it had a revival screening, and I was struck by how blatantly influenced I am, to the point of being almost disgusting." https://t.co/i5QtR60h4a
The incredibly wealthy love to do this weird "I don't actually have any liquid cash" thing as if that's how wealth works. Money is a thing normal people like you and me and worry about. Rich people have *assets* and debt. They live off loans leveraged against what they own.
He voted for Nixon 3 times before dying of congestive heart failure in 1974. She remains a lifelong Democrat at the age of 102. The baby joined the Weathermen in 1969 and spent 32 years in South Yemen and Nicaragua as an international fugitive. He endorsed Hillary in 2016
🚨REVEALED🚨 Secret night-time shipments are happening of High Explosives manufactured by a foreign arms company in an Australian government-owned facility — approved for export and headed ultimately to Israel to kill Palestinians.
Excellent reporting from @DaveMilbo for @shot_au:
“Australia is manufacturing the raw explosive that ends up inside the bombs falling on Gaza, on Lebanon, and on Iran.
“Not the entirety of the bombs. Just the explosive bits. And even Penny Wong wouldn’t have the gall to argue that nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, and RDX (known as cyclonite) are the “non-lethal parts” of a bomb.
“Two factories, one in NSW, at Mulwala, and one in Victoria, in Benalla, manufacture the munitions that end up inside the shells, bullets, missiles and bombs used by the US-Israeli death machine in its expansionist, genocidal campaigns.”
https://t.co/jfccmy697Q
Betore Rome, there was Carthage. Before Carthage, there was Tyre.
Israel is currently demolishing Tyre—a city more than 5,000 years old and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Person who has an elevator that goes directly into the living room of their NYC apartment:
Israel must exist as an ethnostate because nowhere is safe for me i am a uniquely oppressed person
Hilarious & revealing how liberal Zionists attempted to paint this parade as an opportunity for people to show support for Israel even if they oppose the current government, only for them to end up marching hand in hand with none other than Smotrich & other far-right terrorists.
Mad Men explores this cultural shift really well. It gets harder for Don to maintain his double identity and for everyone else to separate their work and personal identities as the show progresses and the post-1960 surveillance state becomes increasingly powerful, making people more connected and making it more easy to ‘look up’ information on each other’s pasts or ruin reputations across different states. The show has a sense of rising paranoia and rising desperation to escape everything and be ‘off-grid’ (California represents this ideal), yet a sad nostalgia knowing that true anonymity might never be possible again. It is fitting that the 1971 Coca Cola ad is the the final scene of the show, it captures this eerie interconnectedness well and foreshadows the even more globalized panopticon in the years to come.