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Fan Group Creates Full-Length Discworld Movie
greenrd writes "'Almost No Budget Films,' a group of Terry Pratchett fans from Germany, recently finished a 9-month filming stint on a full-length dramatisation of pterry's novel 'Lords and Ladies.' A grand total of 300 euros were spent on this production, and all profits from this fan movie will go to the Orangutan Foundation. Check out the new English trailer for some grin-inducing special effects!"
Unlikely, those links point to a university.
If you see a link with uni-*.de it's always a university.
http://trackerwww.prq.to/download.php/3294903/lnlu ksm.avi.torrent
Site is nuked so get it from here.
Wonderfully entertaining, kitschy trailer.
For more stuff quite like this, check out Channel 101 and its New York sister site, Channel 102.
For an example of how brilliant zero-budget filmmaking can be, check out their winner for this month's contest: House of Cosbys.
If you don't laugh at this, you're probably Bill Cosby. And even then.... well, just click.
Cool!
But I just hope in Terry Gilliam to find the budget to start Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman's "Good Omens"!
Wouldn't that be great?
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Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisement said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighbourhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches.
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Here is a mirror of the english trailer:
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/temp/lnluksm.avi
Clearly you have no knowledge of the german university system. Foreign students pay the exact same fees as german students - up until now only "administrative" fees of only a few hundred euros per semester (real tuition is only being phased in at the moment). Germany has thus for many years been probably the most affordable first world country for foreigners to study in. (Though their numbers have been kept comparably low as a result of german language requirements).
I thus really resent your uninformed statement - especially after a recent experience of a friend being in a masters program in England with 80% chinese that paid high tuition, and even though they very much depressed the level of academic discourse of course all got their degrees. Talk about "mostly oriental" cash cows.
Greetings, B.
References: German academic exchange service: Lack of Tuition Fees in Germany a Big Draw for Foreign Students (04/04/2002)