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Skriven 2007-07-31 01:45:49 av Amy Guskin (2745.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Reports from Comic-Con
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>>On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:33:19 -0400, Josh Hill wrote
(in article <ee3ta39ui6q8nepfbc9kamsn6enr9ljv9g@4ax.com>):

> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:59:48 GMT, Amy Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> One interesting thing is that they're filming a major, major feature film 
>> in 
>> our neighborhood -- on my very own block, in fact -- starting in October, 
>> and 
>> there's a chance they'll need a swimming pool for a scene.  The film's time 
>> period is early 70s, and we're the only pool in the neighborhood that's 
>> 'original recipe' -- it was built in the late 60s, and is concrete, plus 
>> it's 
>> that very dated sort of Moroccan window shape.  Everybody else here has a 
>> modern or upgraded pool, fiberglass liner variety.  So if they _do_ decide 
>> to 
>> film in our backyard, that'll mean some $$$, which I'm ready to sink back 
>> into the house via some repairs.  And there's always the chance that 
>> they'll 
>> paint the back of the house if they're filming in our yard (they're going 
>> to 
>> be making a lot of changes to the houses where they're already sure that 
>> they're filming)...which is like getting a free repair.  So, everyone cross 
>> fingers for me that the location manager falls in love with our vintage 
>> pool 
>> and raves to the designer about it!  :-)
> 
> Hey, cool. Ask them if they'll leave the dead body floating face-down,
> streaming blood. Or the sharks, if it's a Bond flick.  <<

A Bond flick!  I wish!  And nope, the dead body isn't in the pool in this 
one, alas.  Based on who's directing it, though, there's been a lot of joking 
around here about small folk -- or big apes -- whose hairy feet could 
potentially clog the pool filter...

>> What I'm thinking is that maybe it would be a good idea to have them
> shoot a feature here. I'd be open to something appropriate --
> Nosferatu's lair, say, or a nuclear holocaust flick, or the house in a
> zombie movie the day after the zombies attack. On the other hand,
> perhaps it would make more sense to do something that would call for
> repairs and, ah, modifications. I mean, they could do something set
> in, oh, say, a 2000-acre ducal estate. Thwackbodget, call it. The
> great house at Thwackbodget has 200 rooms, so the new wing would only
> need 188, and the ballroom could do double duty as the chapel if you
> redressed it. Then all you'd have to do is knock down a few hundred
> houses to make the park. And set out man traps. <<

Yeah, the key is to get them to do a film that requires _upgrades_ of some 
kind.  The neighbors down at the other end of the block, where they're 
filming -- who live in split ranches, which look more 70s than the houses on 
my end -- are going to have their houses painted in outdated 1970s colors, 
have their modern garage doors replaced with older-style ones, satellite 
dishes hidden, etc. etc., so in most cases, they're probably going to want 
the production to put the houses back as they were.  Still, they'll have a 
new paint job out of it, and the location manager promised they'll be doing 
it properly -- scraping and priming and all, both times (the 1970s paint job 
_and_ the repaint to the original color).  I'm torn between being unhappy 
they're filming down at the other end (i.e. I'm missing out on a free 
repainting), and pleased that our end of the block doesn't resemble 1970s 
Norristown (a much more blue-collar enclave than our actual town).  :-)

Amy
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