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Unesco Probing Star Wars Filming In Ireland
First time accepted submitter wijnands (874114) writes Star Wars crews have started filming on the small Irish Island of Skellig Michael. This island, listed as a Unesco world heritage site, features the remains of a 6th century monastery as well as breeding populations of puffins, manx shearwaters, storm petrels, guillemots and kittiwakes. Currently the Irish navy has deployed one vessel to maintain a two-mile exclusion zone around the island. Unesco is now concerned about what is going on the island, which is only visited 13 times a year by tourist groups, and has asked the Irish government for an explanation.
"... puffins, manx shearwaters, storm petrels, guillemots and kittiwakes" are NOT from a Harry Potter novel but real world animals. I am going to have a lot of fun looking them up.
Keep an eye on them so they don't do something stupid... Like Jar Jar. Or Hayden Christensen.
Someone was mistakenly left out of the last round of bribes?
There are 13 tour companies one can take to visit the island. The tours run each day during the summer but only once per day. So there are 13 boats of visitors per day for 5 months out of the year, not 13 visits per year total.
"We can't tell what the filming of Star Wars on the site will do to the wildlife."
I can see a whole lot of lawsuits from all of the puffins, manx shearwaters, storm petrels, guillemots, and kittiwakes who don't want to appear in a modern Star Wars film. Can't say I blame them, not after Episodes 1 through 3.
I say - go for it !
That person should tell the UN to mind its own business!
The island is owned by the Commissioners of Irish Lights, i.e. the Irish government.
From the UNESCO web page on Sceilg Mhichíl:
When in 1578 Queen Elizabeth I of England dissolved Ballinskelligs following the rebellion of the Earl of Desmond, under whose protection it had been, the island passed from the Augustinian Order to John Butler. However, although the monastery no longer existed, it continued to be a place of pilgrimage. Around 1826 the owner sold the island to the Corporation for Preserving and Improving the Port of Dublin (later to become the Commissioners of Irish Lights), who built two lighthouses on the Atlantic side.
Sorry to burst your little libertarian bubble there, dude. Better luck next time.
Thanks Obama!!!
Obama is also responsible for why you can't get a date.
They can go about their business. Move along...
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
Of course they're filming in Ireland, its the worlds largest green screen.
has asked the Irish government for an explanation.
duh money... And the movie company that is filming it is now setup there. So they can play games with taxes and make sure the movie never makes a dime.
They must prevent the return of Jar Jar and his people. Unless he dies by being consumed alive by a horde of ravenous genetically designed piranha puffins.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
Aside from special effects, they really didn't do much shooting in the US. The studio work was mostly in the UK, and planets were represented by Tunisia , Italy, Spain, and a few others.
Instead of a sound stage somewhere, based on the amount of computer generated awfulness that went into the last three movies.
And as far as the other issues you mentioned, those are caused by people who should know better.
I have become so disgusted with humanity that I am all for protecting the defenseless creatures over human beings.
Humans have proven that they are not worthy of this planet. I for one wish these guys existed. so that they can come down and say, "I don't give a shit about your petty squabbles. Cut the shit out or you will be destroyed."
And then disintegrate all the weapons and combatants before taking off.
What I get from this is that Episode VII is basically going to be a documentary about puffins.
Sorry to crush your cocky statist attitude, but he'd simply assumed the island was privately owned and was incorrect. It has nothing to do with whether he's a libertarian or not, although I'm greatly concerned if the concept of private property is now only the province of libertarians.
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~ They ate all the lobster salad and the chocolate chip power bars. Look at the feathers and tracks. It's just I never heard of them hitting anything this big before.
~ They didn't. But we are meant to think they did. These tracks are side by side. Puffins always march single file to hide their numbers.
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On one side, we have UNESCO which is charted by a shadow government with designating and protecting what are considered world cultural sites. On the other we have the dark empire of Disney, another shadow that influences government in terms of Copyright and other legislation that it deems necessary to keep the Mouse protected. Any takers on which side will win this battle? I'm betting on the Mouse.
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
You chose to fuck your corporations. I welcome them and the jobs and taxes they bring.
The power to destroy a habitat is nothing next to the power of Money.
One must really wonder what is so special about this location, that they A) feel the need to risk damage to the habitats to film, and B) could not be reproduced in a green screen environment like they do everything else.
We don't need a fucking talking lion or a genie in a lamp in a Star Wars movie. Since Disney has said they're aiming the movie at six year-olds, it would be better for Ireland to outlaw all Star Wars movies to protect us than it would be for them to allow this crime to continue.
Reminds me of that joke that made the rounds when the Snowden scandal surfaced.
A little girl tells Barack Obama, "My Daddy says you are spying on us."
And Obama replies, "He's not your Daddy!"
... is concerned that the film crew will discover the Hamas missiles hidden in that monastery.
Looking at the pictures of Skellig Michael [aside: didn't Michael Skelling used to be an NPR reporter?] it seems very likely that the stacked-stone huts will be used in the new films.
If this is a sign that there's no nexus around Tatooine, this thing might actually have legs!
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Should we care what you think when you're so far gone that you call people who are part of civilization "statists?" That seems pretty wingnutty. Do you also derp about "socialism?"
if the concept of private property is now only the province of libertarians
The way it's going, if you "still" believe in private property you're either a libertarian or you've given up on compulsory political systems entirely. All the other factions believe in some degree of community ownership of everything.
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The UN will blame it on the Jews.
Statists are uncivilized barbarians who feel their ideas are so good, they must be applied by force.
Couldn't they find somewhere else to film? Apparently the filming is expected to only last for a few days but still. I'm sure some other island together with CGI would have worked just fine. Bloody stupid to choose a protected site.
Currently the Irish navy has deployed one vessel to maintain a 2 mile exclusion zone around the island.
I hope, for all our sakes, that the U.S. military does the same thing around movie theaters after the film is released.
If there was really such a major conservationalist issue with them filming there at this time, how did they get the permits to film there in the first place?
If it was just as a result of miscommunication, then it would seem that the permits should probably be revoked (and fees for them refunded, obviously), unless those making the movie can show that film crew's activities will not introduce things to the environment there which may damage the ecosystem.
I'm as big a Star Wars fan as anybody else that I know, but it's still just a movie, for chissakes. It's not worth harming wildlife over, even if it's only accidentally.
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According to http://bestskelligtrips.com/ there are daily trips to the island. Not 13 per year.
SOLD!
To the highest bidder!
Hey! This is just the market, finding another solution. To the problem of life itself...
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
The power to destroy a habitat is nothing next to the power of Money.
One must really wonder what is so special about this location, that they A) feel the need to risk damage to the habitats to film, and B) could not be reproduced in a green screen environment like they do everything else.
Excessive use of green screen likely helped Episodes 1-3 be so terrible- wooden acting being one of the many problems. An actor's performance can only be improved by actually being in the environment their character is supposed to be in.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
Yes, becasue banks behave so well without regulation.
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About all the crap they left in Tunisia at the end of the *FIRST* Star Wars movie.
If I remember correctly they just went and built sets and other crap and left them there.
Now imagine if they did that in a wildlife habitat rather than the middle of the desert?
Nevermind that Disney/Former LA have the technology to not need to film on-site anywhere on the fsckin planet.
Makes you wonder why they should be allowed to film in an endangered habitat to begin with.
All the other factions believe in some degree of community ownership of everything.
Since, by definition, everything can be substituted into the position of "everything", try the term "my wife" in there and let's see how you like it.
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
Seriously, bro? What a ridiculous retort, considering banks (in their modern form) are state creations. Good luck trying to build an empire on a fiat currency printing press without government.
What you should have learnt is that Starwars is now part of Disney, and Disney does whatever the hell Disney wants. They have already clearly stated that Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution does not apply to them, they clearly are not going to be inconvenienced by a Unesco world heritage site and the laws of a land of potato eaters.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
"Community ownership of your wife?" wait, I thought we were talking about hypothetical situations here, isn't she already community property?
try the term "my wife" in there and let's see how you like it.
I'd ask her what she thinks but she's currently hooked up to a bunch of machines while congresspeople scream about how they were a doctor once so they can dictate how long she is to be kept alive.
You don't even own your own body anymore, Republicans gave that to the government to make sure people couldn't give their sky daddy a sad.
So typical of the BBC to anglicise the name of the island. It is correctly Sceilig Mhichíl. Brit arseholes.
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The obvious solution? Just make a rule: "No Blasters."
Shouldn't this be 'your mother' or 'yo mama'?
I'm not clear on who your people are. Are they the ones who boil food until it is completely bland and tasteless, or are they the ones who buy politicians every time one comes up on the market? I hope that you do understand that the reference to not being bound by the laws of a land of potato eaters was intended to reflect the view taken by the corporation that feels it can do anything it wants.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
There's a difference in believing in private property, which most people in liberal democratic countries do, versus belieiving that private property makes you lord and master over every square inch of it (puffins be damned!). There is always some community responsibility involved everywhere, unless and until someone manages to live somewhere with no community and has no effects on anyone else. So even if this island was private property there are still large community effects involved (this is usually countered by the notion that economic benefits are far more important than environmental harm, maybe by saying something silly like "people are more important than birds!").
Not exactly an original "thought." Marx takes up this very question in the Communist Manifesto.
Pray they do not alter it again."
We also would have accepted:
"Aren't you a little short to be a storm petrel?"
"The more UNESCO tightens their grip, the more film crews will slip through their fingers."
"That's no island."
"As if a billion puffins cried out in terror, and were silenced."
Depending on his/your/one's particular flavor of libertarianism, private property rights might not even exist as a thing. Certainly one's private property rights extend only as far as one is capable of defending them, as in, with a gun.
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Wasn't Ireland recently bankrupt? Good for them, they could use the money.
My guess is like all shakedown gangsters, UNESCO didn't get their cut. THAT's why they're upset.
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Since 98% of the content is CGI, why bother with a physical location?
Aw come on.... they were having *such* a good time until you showed up injecting "facts" into the debate!
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