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I Want To Believe (That X-Files rewatch is a blast)
Katılım Eylül 2023
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it's a jukebox musical with Swedish music and all American and English actors. No one thought that attracting that movie was important for preserving Greek heritage.
This is money.
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For example:variety.com/2018/artisans/…
These breaks started when Mama Mia: Here We Go Again filmed in Croatia. Greece wanted to attract that and other film productions for tourism and local dollars during production.
Mama Mia has nothing at all to do with Greek culture,
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As you get older, you'll start to see how little ideology and deeply held beliefs matter to grownups with money. Grownups like Musk are playing a trick on you. They don't actually believe this and you don't need to act as though they do. It's just money.
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cut this deal thinking they were going to get Greek actors and Sydney Sweeney for some reason as some kind of monument to their culture and they're upset now. That's not why they did it. This is just dollars and cents.
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going to come to Greece and spend money to see Diane Krueger. She's not in Greece either.
It's showing off the landscapes and romanticizing the idea of Greece. They're going to get their money's worth.
But no, don't worry your pretty little head that Greek politicians
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No one does.
(And for the record - Musk is pretending to care about "western civilization," etc for the same reason - to make money. He doesn't actually care about this.)
The reason Greek politicians who cut this deal won't complain is because they never thought people were
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learn it early:
Almost no one is motivated by a series of sincere beliefs. Everything is motivated by money. That's it.
No one who cut this deal was thinking "Ahhah! This will immortalize our culture and enshrine a great Greek myth! This is worth paying for!"
They don't care.
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successful that means more people will see footage of Greece, and some of them will go to Greece. That's all there is to it.
Kids from conservative backgrounds often have a hard time understanding this, so let me tell you now because your whole life will make more sense if you
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Quick thread:
Here's why Greece isn't complaining.
This subsidy has nothing at all to do with Greek culture, Greek actors, etc. No one who cut this deal gives a shit about any of that.
This is a tax subsidy with the goal of boosting tourism. That's literally it.
If the movie is
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Christopher Nolan took 6.5 million euros in Greek taxpayer money to film The Odyssey in Greece for 15 days. They gave him the subsidy without telling the Greek people what the movie was actually going to be. No Greek actors. Heavy distortion of one of our most important stories. Now the world tour is skipping Greece completely. He knows exactly what he did. He disrespected our history, took our money, and now he won’t even show his face here. This is what happens when Hollywood gets comfortable pissing on other people’s culture.
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decided to look through my screenshot collection and share just a few of my favorite shots of Sam Neill
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@ms_dark_phoenix Αυτό που προσπαθουν να πουν ότι η Τροία ειναι η πιο "πίστη μεταφορά " μου αρέσει το έργο αλλά εντάξει
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Me when I bring highly skilled sculptors to war all the way the other side of Aegean just to own the Trojans
Fahhh@yowtfahhh
$170M vs $250M budget btw.
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Rest in peace to our Jurassic legend, Sam Neill.
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getting really upset not about myself getting older but how we’re watching so many film actors and directors that raised us and developed our love for the art pass on. like i really can’t take it
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RIP Sam Neill
All the headlines are gonna mention Jurassic Park, and rightly so, but you had so much more beyond that for film fans to discover. Plus, like, what a fuckin' cool dude.
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Sam Neil being gone hurts on a level I haven't felt in a hot minute. His stature felt totemic in my youth because of JURASSIC PARK.
But as I got older he became a fixture that was so delightful just for the weirdo energy he brought to projects and then some. He was incredible.
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All fictional characters are INVENTED, you fucking tourist.
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When you remember that they INVENTED a black human sister for Vulcan Spock, black Helen of Troy doesn’t seem that outlandish, does it?
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Sam Neil was in so many ways one of the first actors I ever truly remember registering at an early age. The fact he had a starring role in a monumental film for a generation, moreso.
I only grew to appreciate him and his energy more as I got older. He was an incredible presence
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There will never be another Sam Neill and cinema is incalculably worse for it
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