If Microsoft actually makes a viable income from this then Bill Gates will have sunk to a new low. He'll be like the schoolyard bully who walks up to you, puts his hand around your throat and says "Pay me $10 to be your friend or I'll punch you in the face!"
What's truly depressing is that almost everyone will pony up to befriend the 'gentle giant.'
I haven't caught any of your recent posts because I've been staying out of the Copyright discussions. Mostly because every time I venture in, it's just the same two camps running around in circles screaming "Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!" and not really accomplishing anything.
Believe me, as an independent filmmaker, I am fiercely opposed to making the tools illegal that would help me propagate my films and help me gain notoriety so that I might someday be able to make a career of my filmmaking, attract better talent and make better film....but I can't do it without some belief of return for my investment. Which is why I propose a modest and simple copyright.
We need copyright and it needs reform. I believe you and I keep coming back to this point. It's just the finer details inbetween that we seem to knock heads about and that's fine. That is what makes for great discussion. Sadly, neither of us have any real strong influence over copyright or we just might solve everyone's problems!
So your version, if Burgled is the example, would be:
"Someone help me! I've been shooted!" "Yeah, I went into town the other day to do some shopeding." "We're not breaking even. We need some way to encourage more shopeders into the store..."
But I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.
You can verify this? You've actually requested OGG and they've said "NO! You didn't buy our product so we're not listening! LALALALALALALALALALA!!!!!1!"?
I couldn't find a way to email you or contact you in some other way (lousy mods will probably attack me for being offtopic, too. Especially since I mentioned it myself).
At any rate, as someone who graduated with a degree in Theatre and is very well trained in auditioning AND a director who has listened to a fair share myself, I should tell you it is a VERY BAD THING to use movie monologues as your audition pieces.
Your best course of action is to go find a good and relatively unknown play and cutting your own monologue out of that. Your director will respect you more and you'll really stand out in their mind.
Trust me!
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p.s. Even Bill's Big Book O' Monologues is a big no, no.
We didn't discuss that because I was unaware. Why not write him and ask? My understanding was that it would be a short while before the prints were actually available. I'm sure he's got time to change them if you mention it.
First off, Ebert is aware that NC-17 was supposed to be the 'Adult' rating he's pushing now. However, he states that it has fallen far short of that and is now associated (unfairly) with porn. Hence his call for a revision.
Second, I don't believe it would be a niche market at all. Instead, it would help grade the difference of mature cinema even more and give the director a more subtle brush with which to paint. As it is, most films are being stripped down and released as PG-13 to capture the TRUE moviegoer market that pulls in all the tickets.
If Eberts opinions surprise you, I would surmise you've not read many of his reviews, articles or colums as this has been a very common theme for several years now and one that he has been pushing upon the MPAA with a great deal of vigor.
I merely elected to post this one mention of the 'A' rating as it sums up quite well (with a wonderful example) his viewpoint. Maybe someday I'll do the research and post a more in-depth essay of his opinion in my journal.
We need a better rating system in games AND in movies. Roger Ebert makes this case very well in one of his Movie Answer Man columns
Q. I just returned from seeing "The Passion of the Christ." Had I been able to wrench my attention away from all of the horrified children gasping in the audience, I might have appreciated it more.
I can understand parents showing up at this film with their children expecting something different, but after a few minutes of the tremendous violence shown onscreen, I would have thought more parents would have spared their children further horror. Shouldn't ticket sellers offer some kind of warning to parents showing up with good intentions and young children?
Carson Utz, Novato, Calif.
A. I'll go further than that: No responsible parent would allow a child to see the film. "The Passion of the Christ," the most violent film I have ever seen, received an R rating from the MPAA because the group, which exists in part to quell the fears of churchgoing America, lacked the nerve to give it the NC-17 rating it clearly deserves.
This becomes an unanswerable argument for my recommendation of an A (for adults only) rating between the R (which allows parents to take in children of any age) and the NC-17, which is irretrievably associated with pornography.
Because many theaters refuse to book NC-17 films, and many media outlets will not advertise them, imagine the irony if their own policies had forced them to boycott "The Passion of the Christ"!
Let the MPAA bring back the X, which everyone understands, for porno and establish a useful adults-only rating for films that are not pornography but are simply unsuitable for children.
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If Microsoft actually makes a viable income from this then Bill Gates will have sunk to a new low. He'll be like the schoolyard bully who walks up to you, puts his hand around your throat and says "Pay me $10 to be your friend or I'll punch you in the face!"
What's truly depressing is that almost everyone will pony up to befriend the 'gentle giant.'
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Now with more Speed Holes!(TM)
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Jesus seems like a pretty iconic figure. I hear he and a few other people are in there.
I'm not sure, though. All I know of the bible I gleaned from sugar packets I found in the parking lot.
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I haven't caught any of your recent posts because I've been staying out of the Copyright discussions. Mostly because every time I venture in, it's just the same two camps running around in circles screaming "Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!" and not really accomplishing anything.
...but I can't do it without some belief of return for my investment. Which is why I propose a modest and simple copyright.
Believe me, as an independent filmmaker, I am fiercely opposed to making the tools illegal that would help me propagate my films and help me gain notoriety so that I might someday be able to make a career of my filmmaking, attract better talent and make better film.
We need copyright and it needs reform. I believe you and I keep coming back to this point. It's just the finer details inbetween that we seem to knock heads about and that's fine. That is what makes for great discussion. Sadly, neither of us have any real strong influence over copyright or we just might solve everyone's problems!
Now, it's almost lunchtime.
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nice try
And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you pesky cowards!
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I never saw the flick, but I was under the impression it was subaural, not subliminal, in Josie.
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And the girl who lost all her data? You think SHE is on Slashdot? SHE represents the majority of Hotmail users.
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Bad examples?
So your version, if Burgled is the example, would be:
"Someone help me! I've been shooted!"
"Yeah, I went into town the other day to do some shopeding."
"We're not breaking even. We need some way to encourage more shopeders into the store..."
I agree. Madness!
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I know it's going to be a great day when Mammet is quoted on Slashdot!
...Mammetesque for some)
Here's another great kicker from that movie (though maybe a little too
Mickey Bergman: Everybody needs money. That's why the call it money!
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Interesting. Thanks!
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I'm just glad I live in a later timezone. Oh, wait....
What? You don't live in a later time zone? I don't get it.
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But I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.
nngh-hey!
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The next generation of Neuros looks like this
Wow. I certainly wouldn't brag about that. It looks even more gaudy than the current version.
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You can verify this? You've actually requested OGG and they've said "NO! You didn't buy our product so we're not listening! LALALALALALALALALALA!!!!!1!"?
...or are you just jumping to conclusions?
fs
I couldn't find a way to email you or contact you in some other way (lousy mods will probably attack me for being offtopic, too. Especially since I mentioned it myself).
At any rate, as someone who graduated with a degree in Theatre and is very well trained in auditioning AND a director who has listened to a fair share myself, I should tell you it is a VERY BAD THING to use movie monologues as your audition pieces.
Your best course of action is to go find a good and relatively unknown play and cutting your own monologue out of that. Your director will respect you more and you'll really stand out in their mind.
Trust me!
fs
p.s. Even Bill's Big Book O' Monologues is a big no, no.
We didn't discuss that because I was unaware. Why not write him and ask? My understanding was that it would be a short while before the prints were actually available. I'm sure he's got time to change them if you mention it.
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The author just wrote me saying he put a poster up for sale (since I wrote and asked if he'd let me print my own off a high res version).
At any rate, pick up your copy here.
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Did you even read the three words before that line? Or did you just pick that sentence as a springboard for an off-topic response?
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I would love to see you take action and form a society that throughly proves your point to a T.
I'm not trolling, I'm dead serious. Step up and make it happen or try to instigate change.
I'm personally opting for change of the current system as I thing moderate (Seven years, TOPS!) Copyright is a good thing.
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Sure... as long as you don't profit!
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...oops
An interesting discussion about this is also taking place here.
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From what I understand, it was exactly what you suspected!
There's an interesting discussion going on at Mac OS X Hints regarding this.
Mods! Undo the aggregious error of that 'Troll' mod!
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First off, Ebert is aware that NC-17 was supposed to be the 'Adult' rating he's pushing now. However, he states that it has fallen far short of that and is now associated (unfairly) with porn. Hence his call for a revision.
Second, I don't believe it would be a niche market at all. Instead, it would help grade the difference of mature cinema even more and give the director a more subtle brush with which to paint. As it is, most films are being stripped down and released as PG-13 to capture the TRUE moviegoer market that pulls in all the tickets.
If Eberts opinions surprise you, I would surmise you've not read many of his reviews, articles or colums as this has been a very common theme for several years now and one that he has been pushing upon the MPAA with a great deal of vigor.
I merely elected to post this one mention of the 'A' rating as it sums up quite well (with a wonderful example) his viewpoint. Maybe someday I'll do the research and post a more in-depth essay of his opinion in my journal.
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