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From our Parisian studio, we reinterpret a notion of rebellious and inspired femininity, claiming an optimistic and harmonious dress code that stays efficient and accessible.
A gang of girls that stands for a look with no complex, where subtle fabrics, comfortable cuts, contemporary hues and sparkling prints mix happily. All without denting our shopping budget…
Above all else, a state of mind: clothes that you wear for yourself.
A real shot of dynamism, sensuality and good mood.
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May 23, 2018
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Dublin and London-based luxury re-sale technology platform Open for Vintage (OFV) is teaming up with Farfetch-owned resale platform Luxclusif to launch ‘The Loop’ handbag buyback service. ‘The Loop’ will be accessed directly on the OFV website and will allow customers to trade in their designer handbags in exchange for store credit that can be...
Nov 28, 2022
Second-hand fashion giant Vestiaire Collective has announced it will ban all fast fashion products from its platform from November 22 ahead of Black Friday. The Paris-based company said the move is part of its “mission to drive collective change towards a circular fashion economy”, and “reinforces the notion of buying quality over quantity and...
Nov 23, 2022
German fashion giant Zalando is putting an end to Zircle, its second-hand fashion platform. The retailer told FashionUnited that “after careful consideration” it has decided to discontinue the standalone Zircle app, and instead focus on the pre-owned category on the Zalando website and app. All 23 employees at Zircle have accepted alternative...
Nov 18, 2022
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Luxury as a currency: how the luxury resale market has evolved as an investment vehicle
Despite currently bleak economic prospects, the resale market is only on the rise, with a slew of recent reports finding that consumers are showing a tendency towards secondhand and pre-loved purchases in light of rising costs and tightened budgets. A similar attitude was adopted by that of The Business of Fashion (BoF), which partnered with...
Nov 17, 2022
The Edit LDN has begun its venture into the pre-loved sector through the launch of its own marketplace solely featuring secondhand luxury items. The culturally-centred fashion firm will allow shoppers that purchase on its main site to sell products back via ‘The Edit Pre-loved’ platform to receive a voucher for their next purchase. It builds on...
Nov 15, 2022
Ebay says shoppers will favour pre-loved purchases over new on Black Friday
Ebay has teamed up with the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) on data predicting what products consumers would be steering towards for this Black Friday as they look to save money amid the cost-of-living crisis. New research by the duo suggested that UK shoppers could be looking to make pre-loved and refurbished purchases instead of...
Nov 15, 2022
Aucnet opens overseas branches in Europe and the US
Tokyo-based online auction company Aucnet is expanding its pre-owned luxury goods business, Aucnet Consumer Products Inc (ACP), with two new international branches in Europe and the US this month. The move will allow Aucnet to expand its physical business into Europe and North America, explains the company in a statement, as it looks to secure...
Nov 15, 2022
RetailFeatured
Retailers are responding to rising prices with expanded recommerce offerings
New research by Barclaycard Payments has found that retailers have been introducing more “sustainable” ways to buy and sell products and services, as consumers become increasingly conscious over their spending. In its new report, the payment provider said that seven in 10 of the businesses surveyed were now offering recycling, renting, reusing...
Nov 11, 2022
Sustainability round-up October 2022
Much was happening in October in terms of sustainable efforts in the textile and apparel industry -- from regenerative cotton farming for denim and more sustainable materials to circular approaches. A new report revailed that the resale market tripled in just two years and an international sustainable design project brought together different...
Nov 11, 2022
PrettyLittleThing (PLT), part of the Boohoo Group, which launched its resale PLT Marketplace app over the summer, have unveiled its first-ever vintage collection with Love Island star and ambassador Indiyah Polack. The 108-piece vintage collection is available exclusively on the PLT Marketplace app and features pieces picked out by Indiyah that...
Nov 10, 2022
RetailFeatured
Consumers are favouring secondhand marketplaces amid cost-of-living crisis
A new report by Cardlytics has found that consumers are being driven towards discount brands and secondhand marketplaces as the cost-of-living crisis continues to take a toll on UK spending. According to the advertising platform’s State of Retail Spend report, over half of consumers are planning to shop at discount homeware and fashion brands...
Nov 8, 2022
Childrenswear resale marketplace Dotte to launch app
Dotte, a British childrenswear resale marketplace, is set to unveil its first mobile app on November 14, as it looks to continue expanding its circular apparel offer. The launch comes as the retailer celebrates its second anniversary, has been dropped alongside a rejuvenated brand image and plans to introduce a slew of new features. The app...
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Through the book, the author helps children reflect on how we can appreciate, and even celebrate, the diversity in the world around us while also helping them recognise those things that we all share.
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Your results (with anything you do) are going to be predictable if and when you are running a regular business, doing the usual things, and going through the same motions like every other business.
Doing blogging and content marketing like everyone else? Wait for years before your results kick in.
Launching paid advertisements on digital media? It won’t work for you unless you are willing to spend, experiment, optimize, and spend some more.
Heard that email marketing truly works? It does, but you’d need to get the first two points right (and on an ongoing basis) first.
Wouldn’t it be nice if things were a bit easier? How would it be if you were to pay for results?
What happens when you let a full battalion of highly-motivated, skilled, and absolutely committed folks to do all the blogging, writing, social media, content marketing, Youtube videos, and even paid ads on your behalf?
It’s called affiliate marketing, and it’s huge. If you are not using it, you are losing it.
Performance marketers (also called as affiliates or partners) do just that. They’ll go ahead and write a blog post (on their already popular blog), share social updates (on their own networks), launch paid campaigns (On Google or Facebook), and do everything that digital marketing demands.
For you.
On your behalf.
Without you ever paying them for it (unless they get you results)
According to 99firms,
“15% of the total digital media advertising revenue is attributed to affiliate marketing, and affiliate programs generate 15%–30% of all sales for advertisers.
Think about it. An opportunity like this was never available to businesses before.
Now, as a business, you can. Just launch your affiliate marketing program or partner program. Affiliate marketing programs for businesses are usually of two kinds:
CPA (Cost per Action) or CPL (Cost Per Lead): These are affiliate marketing programs or partner programs where businesses (such as yours) agree to pay X dollars (or even cents) for each lead that signs up through an affiliate’s or partner’s efforts. Through affiliate networks such as Maxbounty and Peerfly, thousands of affiliates will apply to your campaign (if it’s a good fit for them while you’ll accept them if they are a good fit for you).
If both parties accept, affiliates will be allowed to promote links (usually to landing pages pre-built for your campaigns).
If they succeed in getting you leads, you’ll pay them cash through those affiliate networks.
Simple enough, eh?
CPS (Cost Per Sale): These affiliate programs are more involved and more demanding to run (for both affiliates and for businesses or merchants).
Cost per Sale programs are exactly what you think: affiliates or partners get paid when they make a sale on behalf of the business they partner with or the merchant they are associated with.
Since it’s a sale that’s involved, the payouts are relatively higher (and the stakes are just as high as well for all parties).
Why choose affiliates or partners instead of hiring your own sales team, you ask? Here goes:
Affiliates and partners are:
Independent & business-minded: Affiliates and partners are usually bloggers and website owners (self-employed full-time or part-time) and are committed to making money from their online publishing efforts.
Partners come from a variety of backgrounds (across countries) and deliver various end-products such as blogs, online courses, membership sites, full-fledged online portals, or online publications.
Each of your affiliates or partners have independent exposure and influence over their own individual audiences.
Collectively, that’s powerful. It’s an exposure you’d have paid with your lungs to have.
Highly-motivated partners: At a time when it’s absolutely impossible to keep someone motivated enough to work for your business, there are several million potential affiliates and partners who are already highly motivated (all on their own) to help put out a good word for you.
Some affiliates and partners have already built up sizable audiences (even before they’ll come around to promote your products). Others are on their way up.
Either way, these are people (or teams) that have motivation from the word go. They don’t need your money until they get you results.
Let that sink in for a moment.
Your affiliate program or affiliate management is automated
When you pick up smart tools such as PartnerStack , Tapfiliate for launching your affiliate program or partner program or when you use a full-fledged affiliate network such as ShareaSale, most of the “affiliate management” part of the equation is handled for you.
Once you launch your affiliate program or partner program, upload affiliate assets (banners, emails, affiliate training material, and other assets), and establish your rules or terms or conditions, everything can be automated (unless you want to get proactive and manage affiliates on top of automated affiliate management that PartnerStack, Tapfiliate, and ShareaSale provide).
Payments are automated
No affiliate or partner ever wants to wait and wonder when you (as a business or merchant) is going to make payments. On the other hand, no business wants to pay for no results (or for fraud or for malicious transactions).
Partner management tools like Tapfiliate, PartnerStack and ShareaSale allow you to automate payments based on several conditions.
Each of those platforms also have anti-malpractice systems, fraud detection, and several other features to help you and your partners do business without worry.
With several thousands (or maybe even millions) of affiliates and partners pushing the word out digitally across the world, you’ll see an instant spike in traffic, leads being generated, and of course sales. Your total expenses (towards affiliates or partners) will only accrue when these results come in (say leads generated or sales made).
If you’ve set up your partner program or affiliate program right and by using appropriate affiliate management software, you’ll see a glowing roster full of sales thanks to the collective efforts of your affiliates and partners. Period.
Do you have a partner program or affiliate program in place? If yes, how is it going for you? If not, why not?
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Austerity and “Grexits” will increasingly result in people getting triaged from the industrial economy and basics such as food. The alternative? Gretaway! [part 3/3]
Sep 30, 2015 comments 9 min read
So here we are on this precipice of sorts, staring upon the twilight of the industrial economy due to peaking energy supplies and thus peaking credit supplies (as explained in part 2 of this 3-part series).
Simply put, being on the peak oil plateau, and with fossil fuel supplies in general reaching their limits (and getting more expensive to extract), there's going to increasingly be less and less of the stuff to go around. This means one of two things, the first being that what's left gets spread around thinner and thinner between all the participants. However, since people of the West (and especially those in the richer parts) have become quite used to their energy-intensive lifestyles and seem to have zero intention of giving them up, this likely implies the implementation of the second approach: cut back on – if not cut off – the fuel supplies to people and nations on the lower rungs of industrial civilization. That way, as the fossil fuel pie continues to shrink, those on the higher rungs don't have to reduce their share too drastically. In effect, this allows for those in the upper echelons of contemporary civilization to hold on to their Nyet-Flix feeds and iGizmos just a bit longer, until the triaging inevitably hits them as well and/or the bottom just completely falls out.
This triaging can be accomplished in more than one way, but for the time being two methods stand out as the most popular. The first is what we know as austerity – cuts are made upon people's pensions, hours, welfare cheques, whatever, so that they have less credit (read: money) to buy and indulge in the spoils of industrialization. Unfortunately, living in this modern world of ours means that the basic necessities of life (such as food) also often fall under the umbrella of industrialization, so being triaged can entail much more than an inconvenient loss of iGizmos.
Using Europe as the example, Greece is on the lower rungs of European industrial civilization as not only is it not a fossil fuel superpower, but it isn't a manufacturing superpower either. It does have a lot of olive oil to sell and/or trade, but olive oil (and the rest of their exports) can't get Greeks the crude oil (and crude oil manufactured products) to the degree that countries on the higher rungs get to imbibe in. Since the manufacturing prowess of Germany places it on the higher rungs of European industrial civilization, this means that it can dish out credit/loans thanks to its manufacturing base. Greece, however, can't dish out credit/loans like this, because not only does olive oil not provide much relative earning potential, but having ditched the drachma for the euro a few years ago, it forwent with its financial sovereignty and put much of its economic destiny under the dictates of others. (Thinking of the issue in terms of "financial sovereignty" can be a bit misleading, but I'll get to that in a moment.) One result of all this is that Greece has an even tougher time affording the most indispensible input to industrial civilization – fossil fuels.
This being the case, when energy supplies become tight enough, Germany's penchant to extend credits to countries such as Greece will be significantly reduced once that means cutting into its dwindling hold on energy supplies. But for the time being Germany has been willing to string Greece along with further loans, not so that old Greek ladies can have enough money to feed themselves, but primarily so that Greece has the funds to service its debts to Germany and so avoid contributing to the eventual implosion of Germany's/Europe's/the world's Ponzi scheme banking system. Furthermore, while the bailout energy credits that do stay in Greece are predominantly accessible only by the upper crust end of society, those credits do of course come at a price. And that price goes a little something like this:
Well I'll be. That Parthenon thing sure does look pretty! But you know what would make it look ever prettier? If it was in Germany.
Facetiousness aside, that's austerity, and you do as you're told. For if you don't do as you're told, and try to give some of the energy credits you've been granted to the needy (so that they can eat), then you're likely to see your country get cut off from the credit lines altogether. Legalities aside, this is the second form of triaging (which has yet to happen to an industrial nation), and so rather than the poorest end of a poor nation getting cut off, the entire nation is cut off instead.
In Greece's case, this form of triaging is the forced version of what has been called Grexit (coined by Citigroup economist Ebrahim Rahbari), which is in contrast to the voluntary form of Grexit whereby the Greek government voluntarily pulls itself out of the eurozone and returns to using the drachma. The general Greek populace is vehemently against a voluntary Grexit, since more than anything the Greek people want to maintain their position within the world of progress promised by industrial civilization (regardless of whether or not they understand that this is their underlying desire).
For what the Greek populace (and for that matter every populace) generally believes to be going on is that the world of today is by and large facing a crisis of politics. In effect, to a large extent they then proceed to vote in to power whomever can best tell them what they want to hear – that they can maintain their industrial prosperity (or get it back if that's the case). However, and as I've previously explained (see here and here), what Greece (and ultimately the rest of the world) is facing is not a political crisis, but a resource crisis. In other words, no variant of political scheming is going to be able to return those on the to-be-triaged front lines to former levels of (industrial) prosperity.
In the meantime, political parties such as Greece's Syriza – who promised the moon during election times (Syriza was initially voted in on a no-bailout platform) – have been shown to be full of hot air. In Syriza's case, its referendum promise of winning the Greek electorate a better deal with Greece's third bailout was exposed as a complete sham, likely because it was threatened by the Troika with either accepting the terms on the table or being cut off from the credit (read: energy) lines, resulting in Greece being virtually thrown into a peasant-agrarian economy overnight. Not wanting to go down in history as that guy, Greece's prime minister Alexis Tsipras capitulated and accepted the dictated terms (which were even worse than the ones turned down by Tsipras a few weeks earlier).
In effect, all that the so-called progressive politicians (and their counterparts) can really accomplish is perhaps a slight lowering on their interest rates and the stretching out of their repayment schedules. So while Greece's most recent prime minister was initially voted in to revive Greece's crippled economy, he's now gone from the bailout rebel to the bailout enforcer, having recently been re-elected with the mandate of implementing yet even harsher tax hikes and spending cuts.
(photo by Alehins)
However, and continuing with the Greek example, not all political parties appear to be so averse to a Grexit, since those on the extremes – the far left Communist Party and the far-right Golden Dawn neo-Nazis – seem very amenable to pulling Greece out of the eurozone. A rise to power by either of them, as should go without saying, would most certainly be an extremely unfortunate turn of events. But seeing how there is very little realization in Greece and other countries as to what the underlying factors at play are, and seeing how Syriza and whichever other party that comes along next is going to be unable to stem the austerity tide, one hopes then that frustrations of hungry and desperate populaces don't result in xenophobic parties such as Golden Dawn coming to the fore.
How can such outcomes be avoided? For starters, this would ideally entail a broad-based understanding that resource crises are at the heart of increasing austerity policies. Supposing that such a realization were actually possible in the near future (which is extremely unlikely), what then? Well, seeing how one way or another Greece is going to end up leaving the eurozone, preparing for such an outcome would be the wisest thing to do. Simply returning though to the drachma may not be much of an option. Yet as one piece in the progressive media put it,
I think the fundamental problem [with Syriza's capitulation] was in the fact that Syriza never spoke out about an alternative to the European Union. Syriza's members accepted the European Union as the framework; they accepted paying the debt as a framework, and they never formulated an independent policy. They overestimated their capacity to negotiate a progressive solution within the European Union, and absolutely nothing suggested that.
However, for progressive parties (particularly those in power, such as Syriza) to have failed in speaking out about "an alternative to the European Union" (as if the progressives just weren't progressive enough) would likely result in a quick world of pain, outcomes ranging from a coup by financial interests to topple the incumbents (so as to protect their loans and Ponzi scheme), to a rather quick crash in said country's stock markets and the progression from bank holidays to grand ol' bank retirements.
Instead, and elaborating on what I mentioned earlier, what progressives need to realize is that the issue isn't simply one of financial sovereignty, but of energetic sovereignty. As I've mentioned before, money is a proxy for energy. Because of that, the more we move down this road of energy supply curtailment, the more that energy supplies are going to be sourced closer to their point of harvest ("harvest" not simply being a cute metaphor). In effect, and with money being a proxy for energy, it make makes sense for currencies to parallel this move.
In other words, and for those aware of the current situation's underlying factors, a crucial undertaking is the setting up of alternative currencies. Not just on the national level (such as a reissued drachma), but also at the regional and community levels. Since international and even national currencies will increasingly become less and less accessible by those on the fringes of society (this is what happens when you get triaged from global and national energy supplies), turning away as much as we can from these currencies and cutting back on seeking them out may be the best option for an increasing number of people – as well as a good idea for those who want to get ahead of what's coming down the pipe (or rather, what won't be coming down the pipe any longer).
What I'm proposing then is instead of a Grexit, what is needed is a Gretaway – a concerted movement away from international (and to a certain extent even national) financial systems. This would entail the purposeful attempt to fly under the radar of international banking as cushions are set up for the increasing number of people who will be triaged from major currencies and so from access to basic necessities – supposing, that is, that such necessities are even available (and there's no guarantees of that).
As even the New York Times has pointed out, the alternative currency TEM in Volos, Greece, was "inspired... by a need for solidarity in rough times," a currency that would be "prepared to step into the breach" "if Greece does take a turn for the worse and eventually does stop using the euro." That's not to say that the TEM is merely a fall-back plan, as it has already allowed for local business amongst veterinarians, opticians, seamstresses, music teachers, language teachers, bookkeepers, computer technicians, hairdressers, and of course, farmers. And, I might add, all legally sanctioned by Greece's federal government.
Make no mistake though, alternative currencies don't imply a continuation of business (nor "culture") as usual. As one butcher who was having much success with another alternative currency in Greece put it, "One person wanted me to trade a Madonna CD for a chicken. But I said no. The Madonna CD was definitely not worth a chicken."
Ultimately, and as Jan Lundberg (who lives in Greece) recently put it in his piece "Why the Cash Economy in Greece May Be Ending,"
At some point, cash can become quite secondary to a sharing economy based on achieving local resiliency.
The take home story? There's no better time than the present to get working on our Gretaways.
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New low of Prenda Law: trolls indiscriminately and inappropriately send out “Letter of request for informal discovery”
Did you hear that? John Steele is coming up with a new way to game the judicial system and defraud citizens! Surprised? Did anyone really hope that robocalling was the final excrement of Steele’s voracious greed?
Nope. Certain people have been born to prove that the ethical abyss is bottomless.
As DieTrollDie reports, Prenda Law started sending out some kind of Nigerian scam letters written in Legalese. Like with robocalls, it seems that Prenda utilizes the entire database of addresses they were able to loot using unsuspecting courts as burglary tools. In particular, not only the Does who are listed in open cases, but also the people who were dismissed long time ago, have received (and continue receiving) “Letter of request for informal discovery.” For example, the letter embedded below refers to a case that was dismissed more than 3 months ago: this is not a mistake, this is a deliberate fraud on the federal court.
DieTrollDie did a good job analyzing the contents of this document, and I’m writing this post mostly to increase visibility and hopefully prevent potential victims from the perils of contacting the troll. In short, Prenda’s mailing is simply another attempt to lure people into contacting the con-men and possibly saying something self-incriminating.
If you have received this document, you absolutely don’t have any duty to reply to it. And don’t even think about contacting Prenda without an attorney. If you have time and resources to strike back, hire a good lawyer, who will monitor the situation; if Prenda fulfills its threats of trying to compel you (which is extremely unlikely), your lawyer can send a counter-request for discovery (yes it’s a two-way street!), which, believe me, will devastate the fraudsters. Or, this lawyer can kindly ask Prenda to pay for a reputable (and expensive) licensed forensic investigator of your choice: if they don’t agree (and they won’t), they will definitely shut up.
The letter threatens to file a “motion to compel” (BTW it is stated that a sample motion is attached, but no such attachment exists). Hogwash: first, in many situations there is no open case to begin with, so how the hell can they manage to file a motion without a case? Second, and most important: I’m not aware of any precedent of a judge allowing such a bizarrely broad discovery request (which includes a visit to Doe’s premises and raiding his private documents and financial records): on the contrary, any previous attempts to secure invasive discovery were unsuccessful. So, there is no way that any judge will approve such a motion (which will never be filed to begin with).
Fortunately, less and less people really think that Prenda has slightest merits to harm anyone beyond bullying. Yet, no matter how reasonable our arguments are, there will always be a few who are not used to listening to the voice of reason: such people allow fears to rule their lives. Hell, believe it or not, the 419 (Nigerian) scam is still alive and well, given that virtually anyone knows about it. It is beyond anyone’s abilities to prevent some people from irrational actions.
For the reference, here are the contents of the scary package for your amusement (and I’m sure that FBI, Attorneys General or IARDC would also enjoy reading this document knowing the circumstances):
Please answer the following questions: who knows, maybe the poll results will assist federal investigators:
Featured comment:
that anonymous coward says:
July 18, 2012 at 1:05 am
A deeper question one needs to ask oneself is…
If their case was so awesome, the evidence so overwhelming… why do they need you to give them evidence to make a case?
Maybe because they never had a case that would survive.
This is another dirty trick in a long list of dirty tricks, how much longer are the courts going to allow these cases and lawyers to continue before ending this spree of terror?
Update
The follow-up post: Prenda’s “Letter of request for informal discovery”: an attorney explains why it is patently invalid.
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Published on: July 18, 2012 April 9, 2016 Author: SJD
58 responses to ‘New low of Prenda Law: trolls indiscriminately and inappropriately send out “Letter of request for informal discovery”’
houstonlawy3r July 18, 2012 00:36 • Reply
It took me a few seconds to figure out exactly what they were doing and I agree with the approaches described here by SJD & DTD. What gets me so annoyed at all of these “scare” tactics is simply that John Doe Defendants could simply do a quick analysis — 1) when did the alleged download occur, and 2) what was the date the production company registered the flick for copyright protection (if at all)? If the so-called infringing activity is before the filing date (or within three months), then NO STATUTORY DAMAGES. With this information at your fingertips, why even worry what kind of letter they send you? Either they can go after you or they can’t. It’s that simple. [And sorry for the late night post; this is obviously not meant to be construed as legal advice]. -Rob
Anonymous July 18, 2012 01:20 • Reply
This clearly explains what you are saying about so-called infringing activity happening before the filing date but might not hold true during 3 months after filling date.
Can anyone else post their interpretation to this?
Anonymous2 July 18, 2012 02:08 • Reply
I’m not a lawyer and this is only for discussion, and is not legal advice.
The three month window, for trolls to claim statutory damages before U.S. registration, ONLY applies if there are less than three months between the release of the work and the effective copyright registration date.
The way I’ve read the passage about three months is:
There requirements to file for statutory “remedy” for infringement(in the trolling cases, the $150 K figure mentioned in the extortion demands). Otherwise, the actual damages apply (for a single copy of a single work, presumably roughly the price of a work [no other factors are involved]).
The work must have U.S. copyright registration.
With registration, either the (troll) plaintiff must register the work within 90 days of its release
OR
must register the work within one month of first learning about the infringement.
Anonymous July 18, 2012 03:20 • Reply
Prenda has cases where the copyright registration date is not even close to three months from the dates of alleged infringement. Great example is the Northern District of California case, Hard Drive Productions, Inc. v Does 1-118. This is the case that provoked Seth Abrahams v. Hard Drive Productions, Inc. with Steven Yuen representing the former Doe. The dates of alleged infringement are March 2011, the registration date for the work is November 2011, eight months later. The complaint states that a copyright application is pending and asks for statutory damages. However, according to the Copyright Office website the effective registration date for a work is the date that the complete application was received, not the date the application was processed and granted. This means that the complaint filed by Brett Langdon Gibbs misrepresented the facts, and these misrepresentations were then used in the extortion letters to attempt to intimidate does into settling.
Archive docket for that case is here:
There are more, at one point someone mentioned California’s barratry law and I found three cases filed by Brett Langdon Gibbs where the copyright registration date was long, long after the alleged infringement dates, so that was likely just the tip of the iceberg. I wouldn’t be surprised if a majority of the Steele | Hansmeier / Prenda Law cases filed before the second half of 2011 have the same problem. They seemed to get a little be better about it after that.
I wonder if any class action attorneys would be interested in pursuing each mass-Doe case with post-infringement registration date as a separate class action. Seems like that would be a reasonable way to go, each case’s Does were defrauded as part of the same case brought with the same meritless claim of copyright registration. Since the statutory damage claims had no legal merit, and thus should never have been filed to begin with, it seems like they would be pretty cut and dry and a decent attorney could have a field day shaking money out of Gibbs’ and Steele’s pockets.
I also wonder if all of Prenda’s clients know that they continue to send out dunning letters for cases that have been dismissed and/or did not have a valid copyright registration. These are just asking for countersuits, and the defendants in those suits will be the former plaintiffs, not Steele or Prenda’s other lawyers. Do you really think Paul Pilcher would be happy to know Steele is sending out more threats for cases that already brought him a couple of countersuits and cost him one settlement plus entered judgement stating the target had not infringed on Hard Drive’s copyright? Hard Drive stopped filing cases after the Abrahams countersuit was filed, so I think Paul lost his stomach for trolling. How do you think he feels about Buffy stirring up more trouble?
bchintel1 July 18, 2012 16:09 • Reply
Rob, you comment on here? Yes, overall I agree…how are you suppoed to preserve something when they haven’t disclosed what you’re accused of downloading. They claim you’re supposed to cease using your computer altogether? “Hogwash” as the article aptly describes it.
I just had a client contact me yesterday who received one of these letters…
Anyhow, a shameless plug for myself: http://www.chintellalaw.com. Didn’t want to plug you Rob in case you don’t want your info known, but you have a lot of experience in these matters to…
Blair, a plug for you exists on this site for a long time As well as for Rob.
Anonymous July 18, 2012 01:40 • Reply
I can’t help but wonder if sending out this sort of demand/threat is legal? I mean, Evan Stone recieved sanctions for sending requests for info from ISPs yes? How is that any different than this? First of all, they’re flat out lying if the case is not currently on going, when they send the demand for discovery. Second of all, they’re stating that it’s the person getting the letter that’s responsible for facts not in evidence, which leads to defamation and liable causes. Third of all, they state they send exhibits of what will follow, yet provide none. (I can’t help but assume that’s due to the letter itself being a c/p with the only changes done to it being the case referenced to it at the very beginning.) Which misleads, and promotes evidence, if any gained, as gained through ill gotten means, no?
And last but not least, if this is sent to people that have retained a lawyer for the previous case, even if said case was DISMISSED. Isn’t it illegal to try and coerce information from someone on a case that they had a valid lawyer for, rather than contacting their lawyer instead of them? Personally, I’d like a legal opinion from the lawyers we know follow this site. Is this at all legal? Is this sanction worthy?
Anonymous July 18, 2012 02:57 • Reply
Are they sending these letters as “registered mail” or “signature required”?
If not, they have absolutely no proof their targets ever received it.
Yet another reason to ignore anything other than service with an actual court summons.
Anonymous July 18, 2012 15:19 • Reply
They keep telling me that I’m gonna be sued (3/4 times per week), yet I was dismissed. They keep telling me about “informal discovery documents” which I have yet to receive. In my opinion, if you’re gonna sue someone, sue them. Don’t threaten to do it using a computer every other day. It’s just like if you’re gonna kick someone’s ass, go do it. Put your fucking money where your mouth is. This is cut and dry blowhard bullshit. They have ZERO intention of litigating any of these cases and the only cases that will go to litigation will be the avalanche of counter-action against the plaintiffs and likely the attorneys who represent them.
The robocalls (calls from Chicago, Miami, Tampa, and DC) come from Prenda and informal discovery docs *cough*SCAM*cough* come from Perea’s law firm, which is likely associated with Prenda but is an independent entity. Not sure if that is entirely legal much less ethical for them to act in concert and the robocalls are a whole different animal…also likely unethical but up here in Duffy’s home state of crooked ass Illinois, it almost seems like the IARDC has given Steele and Duffy a free pass to conduct these monkeyfuck activities as I’m sure there’s been hundreds of complaints filed against Steele and Duffy so far. “Please forward all complaints to the Recycle Bin.” For the record, I just pulled my case that was dismissed 7 months ago and the registration document is on the docket with the comment “copyright registration pending” yet the work still isn’t registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. I know the government is slow but 14 months?
Anonymous July 18, 2012 15:45 • Reply
Do you have a list of numbers they are calling from? I have some of them, but I want to put all of them in a filter that goes straight to voicemail. Supposedly my info was released 2 months ago, but I’ve yet to hear anything.
Anonymous July 27, 2012 13:59 • Reply
I have every voicemail that Prenda has left, with the exception of three that I accidentally deleted (the first robocalls). I’m up to 50+, which at an average of 2/week, is 6+ months of constant, unrelenting weekly harassment. Anyway, I digress. I can give you the latest number that their robo-moron computer has been calling me from for the past few weeks: 1-800-380-0840.. It reverses back to Nolani Marketing in Tampa, FL (likely Prenda front). I’d avoid numbers with the 305 (Miami-Dade) and 773 (Chicago Loop) area codes as well.
I can’t fucking believe they’d harass me post-dismissal and risk having to defend litigation (against Prenda, fuck the porn companies) over a couple thousand dollars. In my opinion, the post-dismissal letters signed by Perea constitute attempted mail fraud and the phone calls are attempted wire fraud, especially since the “copyrighted” act that I supposedly pirated wasn’t and still isn’t actually copyrighted, although Duffy told the Court that it is.
For the record, I have read that Perea is on the Florida Bar Association’s radar, which is a mild understatement. More like being actively investigated. At least one of the state bar associations actually gives a shit (taking a passive-aggressive stab at Illinois’ ARDC).
Ron Mexico July 27, 2012 14:31 • Reply
I should start calling those numbers posing as a New York Times reporter doing an expose on copyright troll extortion…
Anonymous July 27, 2012 15:10 • Reply
Looks like the USPS makes reporting mail fraud easy…
Anonymous July 29, 2012 12:57 • Reply
The catch is these phone calls and letters tell me that I’m “part of a federal copyright lawsuit.” As of January, that is a patently false statement but they are using that to try to extract money from me…making a fraudulent statement for the purpose of monetary gain, sounds like attempted mail and wire fraud to me but IANAL. I’m still getting calls telling me that I’m part of a lawsuit.
Subscribe July 18, 2012 07:03 • Reply
Me too.
Raul July 18, 2012 08:49 • Reply
To continue a conversation started with TAC over at dietrolldie.com:
Before there were porno trolls there were RIAA trolls and before there was this blog and that of DTD there was the Subpeona Defense Alliance to help Defendants. Their site subpeonadefense.org has some Doe discovery templates which can only be described as awesome and which could easily be modified to a Prenda case if the need ever arose (it will not). Go to their site and click on “Other Resources”.
Raul July 18, 2012 12:38 • Reply
Once again I am limitted to the resources of rfcexpress.com so am not 100% sure about this but it may be partly related to what is going on with the “informal discovery”?
It looks as if since April of this year both Gibbs and Duffy have been filing tons of lawsuits, some individual and some posing as individual lawsuits but seeking the identity of “co-conspirators”. After filing, nothing occurs, no motion for expedited discovery, nothing. This makes me wonder whether there is no need for discovery as Prenda already has the Doe info from either earlier federal lawsuits or from the FL “pure bill of discovery” lawsuits. Likewise it could just be for the purpose of posting their website in an effort to spread FUD.
Any thoughts anyone?
anonymous July 18, 2012 13:01 • Reply
Regardless, they are referring to a motion for an existing case correct? A case that has been dismissed.
Here is the archive.org docket for the case referenced in the letter in SJD’s post.
If I were a recipient of one of these “informal discovery” letters, I would forward a copy to Judge Lloyd and his clerk.
Anonymous July 18, 2012 15:40 • Reply
That case was dismissed without prejudice and the alleged infringement act(s) is/are within the statute of limitations. Suit still may be filed against the Does in that case and it’s basically open season on harassment via phone and U.S. Postal Service. Judge Lloyd’s hands are tied. However, if the Does had been dismissed with prejudice, the case becomes res judicata or “already judged” (I had to bust out some of my b-law knowledge). That precludes any future action against the Does for the alleged offense. If an agent of Prenda (or any other scumbag law firm) contacts said Does post-dismissal, that has the potential to turn into a huge shit storm for Duffy et. al. and if I were one of the Does, I would immediately contact the judge who presided over the case. Can anyone say sanctions?
Watching the fall July 18, 2012 15:16 • Reply
For the life of me I cannot see how this is not a sanctionable offense!
I can’t fathom in my wildest dreams that in their dragnet they will not catch a savy lawyer who will take them to task.
Anonymous July 18, 2012 15:40 • Reply
Forward to the judge? Now who would do something like that? Oh, that’s right. I will.
Watching the fall July 18, 2012 15:48 • Reply
Just waiting to get a notice in the mail now that my case was dismissed WITH prejudice! I’ll be sure to contact the FBI, State’s AG, US postal service for mail fraud, and anyone else the local PD would like to string into this. You know how justice was served in the old wild west!
Some folks don’t take well to these tactics and are sure to fight back when the time is right!
Anonymous July 18, 2012 15:54 • Reply
bchintel1 July 18, 2012 16:14 • Reply
Forgot to mention in my comment above…but the contact information on the complaint filed here in Georgia lists the name of a Georgia attorney, but the phone number and e-mail address go to Brett Gibbs, for those of you who know who he is…
I would be surprised if anyone who reached this comment (i.e. not a random surfer who has stumbled on the post above) does not know who Gibbs is. We even have a nickname for him: Pinocchio (because his nose grows every time he opens his mouth in front of a judge or types a motion).
So, it seems that this time the clowns send out the same crap signed by different attorneys, I wonder why: they never cared about sending demand letters to states where the signers can’t practice Law.
Anonymous July 18, 2012 19:02 • Reply
If they put Gibbs’ name on letters sent to defendants in Georgia cases, could this constitute practicing law without a license in Georgia? I don’t think Gibbs is admitted to the Georgia bar…
Drifter July 18, 2012 20:58 • Reply
Was the Georgia attorney Bryan M. Knight of Knight Johnson LLC or Elizabeth A. Morgan of The Morgan Law Firm. They were both active last year in the northern district court in Georgia. Knight brought suits for K-Beech, Raw Films, and Patrick Collins; while Morgan trolled a couple of suits for West Coast Productions, West Bay One, Maverick Entertainment Group, Voltage Pictures, and Cornered, Inc.
Luckily the judges in Georgia put a stop their trolling pretty quickly, with the only troll case filed in Georgia this year that I know being Digital Sin, Inc. v. Does 1 – 245 NDGA back on February 15 of this year. I have not found anything about this case; it shows up on Dockets Justia under “Other Statues” but I can’t find it on rfcexpress.com.
It’s the same with Third Degree Films, Inc. v. Does 1- 152 filed near the end of last year on December 1.
Outside of these cases, Georgia courts have been relatively troll free this year. Why earlier this week I saw local Atlanta news story about one the West Coast films lawsuits going after a single low income mother who is now been defended by a local law firm. Needless to say, it was not good publicity for the trolls and their extortion scheme.
anonymous July 18, 2012 21:16 • Reply
Yep. The were all kicked to the curb pretty quick.
SJD tweeted about an exhibit in a Colorado case, an email exchange between Lipscomb and Brad Patrick (Attorney for a defendant), and he threatened more cases in many states including Georgia.
NB: they were year-old emails.
Drifter July 18, 2012 21:50 • Reply
Wow, what a complete scumbag. No decent human being does this sort of vindictive behavior, also the stench of BS emanating from the threats in his replies in quite odorous.
This man need to be disbarred and the sentenced exile on to a desolate Island with all the other copyright trolls to reflect on their abject failure as a human beings.
anonymous July 18, 2012 21:54 • Reply
Oh snap….I completely glossed over the dates, especially after reading what he wrote.
btw…Lipscomb and Buffy have another thing in common. They both use “your” incorrectly
Anonymous July 19, 2012 14:52 • Reply
Drifter, I believe one of those cases isn’t a case actually IN Georgia. I looked into one of them a while back, I’m pretty sure it was the Does 1-245 case.
It was more or less an update. That update was dealing with a Doe in Georgia filing a motion to the case that was based out of NY for improper jurisdiction.
The Third Degree case I am not sure about. Although, I just did some research and found this case: http://www.rfcexpress.com/lawsuits/copyright-lawsuits/district-of-columbia-district-court/83568/third-degree-films-inc-v-does-1-152/summary/
My guess? It was another motion filed by a Doe in Georgia to the DC based case for improper jurisdiction again.
Georgia really doesn’t want to put up with the crap, as far as I know.
A must view for anyone who wants to know the official and proper way to respond to trolls. Nuff said.
Anonymous July 18, 2012 21:50 • Reply
Here’s what I don’tget about that letter. Even if it was a “formal” request as part of a actual case, how could they prove spoliation? Couldn’t you just throw away the computer and then there would be no trace of the file? Why wouldn’t everyone do that?
Watching the fall July 18, 2012 22:44 • Reply
Exactly. At the rate that Apple comes up with new iPads and the time it takes these lawsuits you would well have replaced the device three times over.
Watching the fall July 18, 2012 22:45 • Reply
Try and do forensics on that computer sold 4 times over on eBay and see what you drag up!
Anonymous July 18, 2012 23:01 • Reply
Could they check the wireless router and would that have a record of a missing computer that recenty connected?
that anonymous coward July 19, 2012 00:01 • Reply
@SJD – see sometimes my comments are short, sweet, and on target. Its why you love me
This is another attempt at shaking down people who think lawyers play by the rules. He’s a lawyer, he said this, so it must be true. You’d think people wouldn’t fall for the scam, but be honest with yourself… we all know someone who fell for a Nigerian Prince scam. They make themselves look important and hope you will be overwhelmed with the idea that they are a lawyer this must be legal. Many of the Prince scams now use “barristers” and lawyers to gain credibility in the targets mind.
There is a reason I have open disdain for many lawyers, even famed 1st Amendment Lawyers… they are lying scum in these cases. I have open hostility publicly with Randazza and Stone (and probably a couple more). They use the mantle of being a lawyer as a cloak to hide the fact they are extorting money.
Oh the poor artists this, the pirates stealing money that…
1 – A majority of these cases can have upwards of 80% of any settlement going into the lawyers pocket directly or with more off the top to their “investigator”. Many studios are unaware that their lawyers are demanding thousands from alleged pirates when they only ever see a few hundred dollars.
2 – Filesharing actually increases sales for companies.
3 – Filesharing is done for free, no money changes hands.
If they spent less time worried about getting paid for every set of eyes that sees an image they control, and more time making quality images for people to see they would make more money. People hate the lawyers, but there is growing pushback against studios who use these methods that extract money from 80 yr olds, people without computers during the alleged infringement, and the blind. Is the couple hundred dollars you bleed out of people today worth the bad reputation that will actually hurt your sales?
Porn used to push tech forward and come up with new ideas, stop being fat lazy bastards and innovate instead of trying to litigate. The market is full of amateurs doing high quality work, you need to compete not complain.
sophisticatedjanedoe July 19, 2012 13:23 • Reply
Come on TAC, I also love you for a few short quotes from your long comments. You did not finish reading my compliment and broke in tears bumping on tl; — if you would read further you could notice not dr; Which means that I never pressed fast forward button on my eyeballs when reading your comments, the action I perform on many other commenters.
that anonymous coward July 19, 2012 22:05 • Reply
So I am talking with an Anon over on DTD and the claim in that specific case is the content in question in the Anon’s case was not copyrighted when discovery was granted, and it was granted with a date AFTER the alleged infringement.
So this means they lied to the court, as you can not file a copyright case for material lacking copyright. One would expect the Judge in that case would like to know that discovery was granted for a copyright case that was precluded by law from moving forward, and now the lawyers are using this forbidden fruit to pursue merit less claims against these Does.
I also wonder if the Does can file a criminal complaint as this is a lawyer threatening legal action where no law has been violated. Even if the Doe were guilty, without a copyright how can you recovery anything under the Copyright Act?
PreparationH July 19, 2012 22:27 • Reply
I guess it would be the statuatory versus actual damages claim. Everything created is copyrighted upon creation but through the act of registration there is the statuatory damages matter insteafd of just actual damages. So they would come back and say that they were filing based on collecting actual damages……misleading yes, but probably would get them off the hook.
that anonymous coward July 20, 2012 05:00 • Reply
@PreparationH while it might be copyrighted upon creation, I do believe there are limitations on the who what where when how you can collect. If they asked for statutory damages in the filing, they mislead the court. The Docs in the case could be very interesting and get them a world of hurt. They have often played fast and loose with the rules and this time it could burn them…
SMDH July 20, 2012 16:38 • Reply
According to the Copyright Office’s quick guide to Copyrights: The creator has a 90 day grace period from the date of original publication with which they may pursue for statutory damages without any registration. In order to pursue statutory damages on the 91st day they must have a valid copyright registration. It is at the Copyright Office’s discretion upon receiving all materials, fees, and documentation whether to make the effective date of registration retroactive to the date of application or upon receipt of all necessary items.
Take a publication date of 1-1-11. They would have automatic entitlement to statutory until 3-31-11. If their application wasn’t submitted until 4-2-11. Any alleged infringements occurring after 3-31 but before 4-2 would NOT be entitled to statutory damages.
Some states adopt the “application” date because of the CO’s ability to make registration retroactive. However, as we’ve seen: the Troll Whores and their Pimps are so desperate to scrounge as much money as they can out of Does they’re forgetting to cross their tees and dot their eyes. This is why there is such disparity between their application dates and registration dates.
Take for example a film with a production date of August 2010. They would be entitled to statutory damages until some time in November. They submit their application in April to the copyright office. From roughly December through March their works are only entitled to actual damages, say $20. Some states, however, will recognize the date of the application (because the Copyright Office can make the registration retroactive) for a copyright infringement claim.
Other states will only allow a copyright infringement claim once the copyright is actually received.
Either way this becomes a moot point once registration is received. Copyright law is explicit as any infringements occurring after the 90 days and before the registration date are ONLY entitled to actual damages. Especially, if the production company doesn’t provide all necessary items for registration and the registration date is November 2011.
I think I just confused myself.
Anonymous July 20, 2012 17:19 • Reply
I think another point of attack would be the original production date. I believe that Prenda has had clients such as HD productions lie about the production date.I believe some videos Prenda has with 2011 publication dates could of been available for download on plaintiff websites since 2010. These cases are weak on so many levels it is comical.
Oh.. Let’s not also forget that many have mentioned that there is not any form of copyright warnings or notice on many of the videos. This opens the door for a court not to award statutory damages based on innocent infringement.
Anonymous August 2, 2012 15:06 • Reply
Ha 90 days. Those assholes have had 14 months to copyright the act they sued me for. Guess what? No fucking copyright registered with the U.S. Copyright Office even though the docket shows a document with a “pending registration” (would they stoop to forging government documents? you bet but I doubt that’s the case). Good luck if they try to sue me individually for statutory damages which is what Prenda is threatening to do right now. As I said before, if you’re gonna kick someone’s ass, you don’t call them 50 times and leave voicemails with threats. You just go do it without saying a word. Same goes for a lawsuit, sans “settlement negotiations” as in “our client was generous enough to extend your extor…err, settlement date….” Don’t call me 50 times telling me you’re gonna sue me, just do it or shut your pie hole. What the hell is a judge gonna ask if they sue me again for the exact same thing? Gee, I know…”Why are you suing this person again for the exact same thing when you dismissed this him several months ago…for the exact same thing?”
IF an individual lawsuit is filed, I will systematically destroy the plaintiff/smut purveyor in my original (DISMISSED) case and when I’m done with them, every single Prenda employee, specifically Duffy, Perea, Lutz (just for being a pain in my ass), and Steele (we ALL know he’s still pulling the strings). Money is no object and I have no problem involving law enforcement. In fact, several of my acquaintances from college are now Illinois State Police Investigators and likely know a few FBI agents as well. It pays to have drinking buddies from school who are now in law enforcement. Networking isn’t only great for job hunting. Too bad I don’t know any IP lawyers, oh well. When I’m done with these assholes they’ll be lucky to have their Second Amendment rights, much less their careers and bar cards.
that anonymous coward July 21, 2012 01:18 • Reply
I do believe the Anon I was speaking with needs to do some homework.
If one were able to show a long gap between “creation” and filing well outside of the small window the entire case was a lie. Time to go share this…
clueless doe July 20, 2012 21:28 • Reply
Received a letter from Prenda Law today. They offered me a last chance to settle, I’ve to reply by 8/1 or they’ll move on with da lawsuit. They also robocalled me today said since they’re backed up with individual lawsuit so they generasly offer me a last chance to settle…
Raul July 20, 2012 22:34 • Reply
Not sure if you are looking for advice, but if you are , ignore.
Anonymous2 July 21, 2012 02:09 • Reply
“Last chance to settle”, “extend the deadline” out of “concern”, “will move forward with the lawsuit”, “your attorney needs to contact us immediately or else…”
These lines are getting tired. Maybe Prenda switched to their bottom-dwelling “informal discovery” garbage to relieve their own boredom. If trolls have, you know, human-like reactions.
All of those phrases are synonymous with the word “bullshit” or the phrase “we have no case, please incriminate yourself.” ALL they have is an IP address as “evidence” against you. Whatever these clowns want you to believe, an IP is not a fingerprint. In fact, it’s practically worthless in court. What they NEED you to do is answer the phone and talk to them….don’t. I waited mine out, was dismissed, am being harassed still via robodick calls. Whatever. I can tolerate the phone calls but if they try to sue me individually, it’ll get REALLY ugly REALLY fast for the original plaintiff.
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Ah, Suburbia, the place where nothing seems to happen. Except, some suburbanites believe evil is sweeping through their neighborhood. No, it’s not COVID-19 or growing civil unrest. Using the #Savethechildren hashtag, these suburbanites are on the lookout for child traffickers, specifically those under the employ of a sinister elite. Yes, we’re talking about QAnon conspiracies.
When Q first hit the mainstream after the 2016 election, it was considered a fringe movement. Associated with misfits screaming at Trump rallies or commenting in the darkest corners of internet forums, Q wasn’t taken seriously. That changed when suburban moms began using the #Savethechildren hashtag to spread Q conspiracies on social media.
Ironically, the hashtag grew in use as social media began cracking down on QAnon posts. Facebook & Twitter banned thousands of QAnon pages & accounts, trying to combat misinformation – or silence the truth, as Q believers think is the case.
As the U.S. election looms over our heads, let’s dive into why suburban residents, specifically suburban moms, are drawn to Q & QAnon conspiracies.
Biden's early vote lead is not enough & they know it.
Dems plan to call @realDonaldTrump's Election Day surge a "Red Mirage" to delegitimize his wave of support.
They'll try to create a smoke screen post-Election Day, even running TV ads to cast doubt on Nov. 3 vote.
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) November 2, 2020
No one knows. Q claims to be someone working high up in the U.S. government, trying to get an urgent message to the American people. Posting on 8kun (formerly 8chan) boards, Q delivers cryptic messages called “drops” or “breadcrumbs” about what’s really going on. Anons online take the drops, analyze them, and piece them together on blogs & social media. Like a game of “telephone”, Q’s allegations grow from there.
Q’s drops tend to be vague. The last few “dropped” and archived on qposts.online include a tweet from Tim Murtagh warning his followers that liberal media (Q’s worst enemy) will claim a surge of Trump voters on Election Day will be a “red mirage” and to “be ready”. The second drop is a YouTube video of a rocket launch with comments such as: “Prepare for takeoff patriots, we’re in this together”.
Taken together, Q’s drops weave a frightening conspiracy together: the U.S. government is run by a cabal of Luciferian elites who kidnap children in white vans, drink their blood, sexually assault & traffick them, and sacrifice them to gain & keep power. The one thing stopping them? Someone in the highest office at the behest of the U.S. military: current U.S. president Donald John Trump.
Think of the children
If someone told you an elite cabal of pedophiles were coming for your children in white vans, what would you do? If you found the claims to be ludicrous crap, nothing. You’d live your life, make your sandwiches, and keep on keeping on as normally as you can this year. If you already find mainstream media’s claims dubious and were looking for alternate information? You might pay closer attention.
“Think of the children” has got suburban moms clutching their pearls since time immemorial. From the Satanic Panic in the 1980s to panic around vaccinations in the 2000s & 2010s, there’s always something in the media, be it in MSM or QAnon posts, for suburban moms to worry about.
Suburban moms questioning institutions is nothing new. Anti-vaxxers are made up of moms concerned about what’s in vaccines. These moms tend to be white, college-educated and in households making over $75,000 per year according to The Inquirer. Despite concerns, The World Health Organization called the anti-vaxxer movement “one of the top 10 global health threats of 2019” due to rising measles cases.
However, Q seems to have taken a new life in suburban moms this year thanks to the pandemic. Families’ lives were completely upended once COVID-19 came to town, and with women disproportionately shouldering childcare responsibilities in the wake of schools & daycares being closed, uncertainty is the new norm.
As one mom told Elle, “It [Q] makes people break from the belief that our news sources and our authorities are the ones that we trust to tell us what’s going on in the world.”
Although QAnon posts seem like just another conspiracy like 9/11 truthers or the JFK assassination, people have acted on it. Cecilia Fulbright drove into a red car at a gas station under the assumption the driver was kidnapping a child. Fulbright screamed he “was a pedophile and had kidnapped a girl for human trafficking” although her claims “did not match the timeline or any facts or evidence”, per a police affidavit.
Attorney and Fulbright’s mutual acquaintance Mark Mueller told Right Wing Watch about Fulbright’s support of QAnon conspiracy posts. She texted him about her support of the theory Trump was “literally taking down the cabal and the pedophile ring”, adding: “What President has EVEN TALKED ABOUT IT? It’s been going on for centuries.”
However, other factors came into play with Fulbright’s behavior. Her BAC was over 0.2, over twice the legal limit, even though she told police she had “at least one beer” per The Waco Tribune. Police also found multiple cans of spray paint in her car – for what purpose, we’re not sure.
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The biggest worry for me going into this film was would my suspension of disbelief hold out? Fantasy it may be and that should be all it requires to buy into its rules for the duration, but would I be able to watch a city trundling around a dystopian landscape on gargantuan caterpillar tracks cannibalising other smaller cities and not keep thinking of Monty Pythons, Crimson Permanent Assurance?
I needn’t have worried; the high-octane opening showing a giant London on caterpillar tracks chasing a small Bavarian mining Village was presented with such straightforward sense of adventure and desperation that the snickers soon left, though now and again I did find myself thinking of what Mad Max might be like if it had been directed by Terry Gilliam..
Mortal Engines, based on the first of a series of books by Phillip French belongs firmly to the steam punk genre, where old-school Victorian values blend with sci-fi subject matter, normally set in alternative worlds. Mortal Engines is set in a far future after the Sixty Minute war laid waste to the world and a new order of scavenging evolved where travelling cities known as traction cities traverse the landscape living out of what they find left over from the past. We enter this world as it is on the verge of collapse, conflict has risen between the traction cities, notably London and those that have begun to resettle properly on the land in a place not unlike the mythological Shangri-La. Following a path of revenge against this backdrop is Hester (Hera Hilmar), who aims to kill Thaddeus Valentine (Hugo Weaving), an ambitious leader of the traction City of London. An unsuccessful attempt brings her to the attention of Tom Natsworty (Robert Sheehan), a young assistant in the city museum, who in turn realises that Valentine is not the great man he thought he was when he ejects him from the city because he knows the truth of Hester’s mission. Soon the two are in the wasteland making their way to god knows where while Hugo is reaching the completion of his master plan.
As would be expected of any film that has Peter Jackson’s (writer, producer) moniker attached to it, this is a sumptuous affair, beautifully realised in design and costume and featuring some dazzling effects. He may not have his name attached as director but it is obvious that his influence on the director, Christian Rivers, is significant. A lot of Jackson’s hallmark shots are up on the screen in this production.
It is unfortunate that the frenetic style that opens the film is maintained for the entire narrative. Characters are introduced at high speed and given no proper emotional weight, barring one or two of them. No one seems to really stop to take a breath, though some sleep is had along the way. Most surprising is that the writing from Peter Jackson and his wife, Fran Walsh, seems so formulaic and predictable. This may be because of the source material, I couldn’t truly say but even so, from what I have learned of the books the wealth of background detail that went into realising the world of the story in the novels is certainly not given enough credence here. The overarching plot stifles any characterisation from properly emerging. The characters for the most part serve their functions rather than have any real sense of an inner life. As the narrative and action escalates it finally descends into a sort of steampunk version of Star Wars.
Despite those negatives there is a lot of joy to be had from this epic adventure. If spectacle is what you are after, you will find plenty, even if it does go on a tad too long. At a time when most blockbusters are so busy setting up their sequels, it is refreshing that this film, though possibly hoping to be the first of a series, stands on its own as a narrative.
Mortal Engines is released 14th December 2018
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"My Faith (and It’s Not Catholic) In My Cinema Remains Pure": Lav Diaz on Genus Pan | Filmmaker Magazine
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Genus Pan
by Aaron Hunt
in Directors, Interviews
on Sep 12, 2020
It’s the end of the gold mining season and time for the workers to pack up and head home. Andres (Don Melvin Boongaling) and Paulo (Bart Guingona) wait in line to receive their payment while Baldomero (Nanding Josef) daynaps in his hammock. The lifelong friends cut a deal. Baldomero arranged their voyage to the jobsite for a portion of their pay. But come payday, Andres protests: His sister is sick and he needs to buy her medication. After their manager gets his cut and the Captain and Sergeant who overlook their bayan each extort theirs, he won’t have enough money left to pay for it. But Baldomero won’t hear it. A deal’s a deal, and so the three begin their long, humid, and uneasy trek through the forest back home with grudges in tow.
Filmmaker Lav Diaz’s Genus Pan (Lahi, Hayop), premiering in the Orrizonti Competition of the 77th Venice Film Festival, plays something like a paranoid road trip movie in its first half and suddenly broadens in scope by the second. At 150 minutes, it is Diaz’s shortest film since 2011’s Elegy To The Visitor From The Revolution (really just an odd omnibus exception), who is known for his eight- to eleven-hour films. His epic lengths convey the slow, sedentary ways of the pre-Islamic, pre-Catholic Filipino civilizations, which survive in various forms in the country’s interior. So Genus Pan’s significantly shorter length might feel like his dialectic with that culture is under attack. Diaz’s wize and lazy psychopath Inngo (Joel Saracho) certainly embodies a threat to the extant traditions of Hugaw (“Dirt”) Island, where the film is set, and where Andres, Paulo and Baldomero were born and never managed to leave.
Much is made of Spain and the United States’ colonization of the Philippine identity, but Genus Pan further complicates it with the Japanese occupation and Galleon trade. A haunted Japanese ancestry and a mythology fabricated by the Spanish, Chinese and rich Malays, prey on the island’s residents, who wield the religion supplanted by its past colonizers, Catholicism, to protect themselves. Genus Pan is another masterstroke from Diaz, the rare purveyor of Philippine history and slow, extended length cinema. One hopes Genus Pan’s shorter runtime attracts new admirers, though the duration of his next film proves he’ll remain true to his daunting lengths (it’s pushing 9 hours so far). Ahead of the film’s premiere, Diaz and I discussed the film’s historical references, the symbols he invented, how his long durations talk to those elements and the production process that makes those unique lengths possible.
Filmmaker: Andres, Paulo and Baldomero feel doomed from the beginning. They’re haunted by the myths of Hugaw Island that the Chinese, Spanish, and rich Malays fabricated to keep people away from the contraband of the Galleon trade, and only have Catholicism, a supplanted religion, to combat them. What do you make of Catholicism as an “answer,” being that it’s the religion imposed on the Philippines by Spain?
Lav Diaz: Of the three protagonists, Paulo is the only one showing real faith: being prayerful, espousing commitment to the teachings of the Bible through perusal and application. Andres, who is starting to question the status quo, rejects God’s justice and conducts an amateurish sleuthing on the death of his elder brother and other crimes in their island—albeit he direly lacks a dialectical approach to it, but understandably, growing up in a lumpen-proletariat setup. And Baldomero exudes a more composed personality, but he clearly is a solipsistic and imposing one. Paulo, being the true believer, is the only one who is still clearly hinged on the idea that religion or the Catholic perspective is the answer. Generally, by the way the characters conduct themselves, whether through their discourses and reactions, the nuances of an imposed understanding of morality are palpable—a mix of the Catholic and atavistic perspectives. The ghosts of the past, personal and their milieus, weighs heavily on their demeanor, and here they are all on the same plateau. It’s not really true anymore that Filipinos still really believe that religion is the answer. While Catholicism, Islam, the big and very organized Protestant and born-again groups and cults, remain strong in the country, there’s been a pronounced steady shift by the masses toward looking for certainties from a strong leader, as in the case of Duterte. In his first three years of governance, his vulgar and open attacks on Catholicism, on its hierarchy, on the Pope and even God were relentless, but the so-called Catholic strong didn’t even make a move. He became even more popular, even with his bloody “drug war” that has already claimed thousands of lives.
Filmmaker: What does it mean that Paulo and Baldomero, both biracial sons of Hugaw Island’s Japanese occupiers, indulge in the same sexual tryst with a sex worker on a “holy day” before their journey home that the Japanese did when they abducted women from the neighboring islands during their occupancy of the Philippines?
Diaz: I call it the garrison mentality, commonly practiced when a group or a great number of the male species are concentrated in an isolated area, and the natural craving to connect with the female species overwhelms them. This culture [resorted] to, [most gravely] during wartimes and occupations, crimes on women. Japan, for one, admitted to the comfort women atrocities, where in their occupied territories, women were abducted and were forced to be sex slaves of the Imperial soldiers.
Unfortunately, in the Philippines, as shown in the film, the garrison mentality is still being practiced. It has taken the form of a tradition, especially among workers in constructions, mining, shipping, even in plantations and soldiers in isolated outposts. On payday, usually the 15th and the 30th of the month, they would hire a prostitute, put her in a makeshift room or hut and they’d line up to quench their lust. They would contribute money potluck style, to save up, and the prostitute in return will receive bigger take-home pay for the service. They rationalize that it’s just a natural thing to do, a reward and furlough for their toil. President Duterte, in one of his infamous speeches—it’s still on YouTube—during his campaign for the presidency in 2016, talked of a gang-rape that happened in Davao Penal Colony when he was then mayor and “the regional chairman of the Peace and Order Council.” The victim was an Australian missionary. He said when he went to the crime scene, he checked the face of the dead missionary and realized that she looked like an American actress and “the mayor” [Duterte] should have been the first in line. His supporters had a ball out of it rationalizing that it was just one of his jokes, but it speaks so much of the shameful acceptance of that sexist and macho culture.
Filmmaker: Is Paulo trying to make up for it on the journey back home by being altruistic?
Diaz: Paulo’s kindness is real. He sure carries the burden of guilt, again a Catholic attribute, but his concern for the situation of Andres is true to his nature as well.
Filmmaker: Your longer run times, to me, have always been a way of preserving the slow lives of old Filipino culture, governed by nature, through form. Whenever the run times have been shortened, it feels like that preservation and culture are under attack, and the film literally ends with Inggo, a symbol of lazy opportunism, stalking the slow walking Mariposa, as if he encroaches on your own form. Does the shorter run time in Lahi, Hayop mean your form is under attack, perhaps by the oppressive conditions of the country today?
Diaz: It can be interpreted that way, especially by the zealous followers of my early long works, and I understand and respect them for that. I wish I could maintain it that way. Inasmuch as I write, shoot, design and edit my works, I am flexible with adhering to the demands of the task at hand. It’s a simple principle that respects a freer way of creating, of pursuing aesthetics unhindered by conventions, orthodoxies and impositions. And I am careful that my works won’t slide to dogma and propaganda, where a form or a certain style and an idealized perspective will control the process; oftentimes this kind of thinking hinders and invalidates any fluidity in creation and greater discourse. Ideologies and institutions fail because of petrified aversion to embrace change and rejection of even the simplest act of needed adjustments. My faith (and it’s not Catholic) in my cinema remains pure. In times of doubt, during the process, and it happens in every work that I do, the purest solution is to just be free. Lahi, Hayop is two hours and 37 minutes and that’s the length of that film. I just finished the rough cut of the next film and it’s more than eight hours already. I guess it may go nine hours, as I realized there’s a need to add more scenes to fulfill some characters and parts of the narrative.
Filmmaker: Who are the Christian men in garb who trek through the heat, and what does it mean that they are also a target of Inggo’s destruction?
Diaz: They are what we call mga nagpipinitensya, penitents, a fixture during the observance of Holy Week in the Philippines. In some parts of the country, specifically, in the Central Luzon area, penitents would fully emulate the suffering of Christ by having themselves crucified. In the film, the men in garb are doing the most common practice, self-flagellation, an act of continuous self-whipping until the skin bloodies. Inggo, apparently, is simply on a rampage, a streak common to criminals. He is enjoying it and, until he is confronted head-on, he won’t stop. Evil insidiously works that way.
Filmmaker: Is the snake Andres runs into meant to represent anything like the Bakunawa (a serpent in Philippine mythology that causes eclipses, earthquakes, rains and wind)? Or just a sense of nature pushing him back into the fold with Paulo and Baldomero?
Diaz: It’s nature’s stuff—the snake as an inherent fixture of forest settings—but for the development of the narrative and of the characters, it’s clearly an element of foreboding and portent. One can have a subjective or objective view of the image anyway.
Filmmaker: What does it mean that Inggo’s version of the story (his “fake news”), which he coerces Mariposa into confirming for the soldiers and captain, is portrayed handheld? Why is the handheld camera the lie?
Diaz: The sudden overt shift of movement, here using the physicality of the camera, as a language and methodology, is to reinforce character attributes—on the malleability and insufficiency of Mariposa, the manipulative and evil ways of Inggo—and, definitely, the shift in perspective, on the displacement of truth. And it presents a greater discourse because even as Mariposa’s version appears as an imposed one, the trajectory actually points to Andres: Is his version true? Or is he telling the truth?
Filmmaker: Though Inggo, the captain, and the soldiers’ laziness is evil, it’s always clear that they’re the result of the collateral damage of colonialism. With the ancient history of the Philippines nearly eradicated or manipulated, what else can be harnessed to prevail against it?
Diaz: There’s a study that says the trauma of colonization never leaves cultures who have gone through it. But I believe that with a deeper understanding and awareness of the past, and a dedicated dialectical engagement with history, some forms of emancipation can happen.
Filmmaker: Inggo’s character is swiftly and horrifically summed up when, just after murdering someone, he spits at his own reflection in the mirror.
Diaz: In fact, that was a self-congratulatory act by Inggo. And if you psychoanalyze it, it’s an overtly psychotic act. It’s his “Wow, I’m so cool” move.
Filmmaker: How do you approach the portrayal of violence in your films?
Diaz: Violence is in man’s nature—again, it’s the animal side of us. When confronted with having to execute a violent scene during production, there’s no rule for me, but I work on finding ways to make it not so overt and not so graphic and work on the feel of it.
Filmmaker: Andres is angry at the regime, but can’t seem to effectively channel himself against it. After camping outside of the Captain’s encampment, fantasizing an ambush, he waits till morning and lashes out on a bush with his machete instead.
Diaz: He still doesn’t possess the appropriate means and the ways. His naivete and crudeness are palpable when he starts questioning and investigating, but it’s a sign that it can grow progressively. Even the greatest revolutions started that way.
Filmmaker: Andres tells the story of how his father died on a fishing trip when a storm hit in a supposedly dangerous part of the sea. Does he mistakenly blame God? Does he confuse impersonal nature for God’s will against him?
Diaz: He didn’t blame God for the drowning of his father, but he questions God’s justice on the death of his brother Peping, the incarceration of Aling Imang, the rape of the Perez sisters and the displacement of Mamay’s tribe. He questions the exploitations and disappearances in the mining camp. His outburst, when he talked to Paulo, was pure anger, an outpouring. But it’s true that Filipinos generally and directly connect God to nature’s ways. That there’s always His “hand” in everything. When tragedy strikes, even the ones perpetrated by, say, big storms, there’s resignation and acceptance that it’s the will of God. The common line is: “Kalooban ng Diyos, kaya tanggapin natin.” (“It’s the will of God, so let’s accept it.”)
Filmmaker: An abrupt radio broadcast played early in the film proposes that the “developed mind” is the religious, altruistic mind and that the undeveloped, “chimp” brain is one that “still” has the capacity for anger, envy, and desire for power, to kill and to rob. This sounds like the classic, paradoxical, propaganda for pacifism that Colonists have historically peddled to the colonized. The joke might be that, in fact, that they’ve perfectly described their own culture as that of the undeveloped chimp brain?
Diaz: The mentioning of names in the radio discourse is more informed by culture; here, it’s Filipino Catholics (and it’s a radio program in a remote province). The radio guest randomly made examples out of some names of religious icons, but a deeper understanding of the discourse, of course, doesn’t point to religion as the basis for the study. It’s science. It’s never said that “the developed mind is the religious.” And it’s not about “the developed mind,” it’s more about the development of the brain, the evolution of the cell—that the truly “complete brain,” as suggested, is the basis for altruism. A developed mind can point to a person with a PhD, a writer of an amazing novel, a union organizer, but then they exhibit rude characteristics; then, there’s the indigenous person who still communes in the mountain, he isn’t able to go to school, but his brain has fully evolved already and he sees more tranquility in his milieu. His advocacy would just be confined to serving his people, and that’s enough fulfilment for him. So, in another setting, say a campus radio, the natural choices would be the likes of Socrates, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Beethoven, Marx, Einstein, or even the great Filipino revolutionary Andres Bonifacio and the fisherman who truly understands the currents of the sea, as having greater brain development. And you are very right—colonization is an animal act. So they did exhibit the chimp act when they rampaged on our cultures.
Filmmaker: Does Mariposa become susceptible to fake news after she shatters the Jar of Truth? Is the Jar of Truth a reinterpretation of something from actual Filipino history? And is it desirable because it is one of the last vestiges of a forgotten culture?
Diaz: She is infirm. The helpless being represented by her persona destroying the symbol of truth carries a darker signification to it. How can we protect the truth if it’s in the hands of the weak, i.e., the Filipino masses? Or are we still capable of reconfiguring the truth once it’s shattered? And it’s scarier to think that the criminal and purveyor of lies, Inggo, is actually dreaming of finding the Jar of Truth. The idea of the Jar of Truth can be exploited and it becomes a populist tool. I invented the Jar of Truth in the story, but it’s a composite of the general belief amongst the masses, especially in the remotest areas, that truth is just hidden somewhere, usually inside a mythical cave where a wise old man is taking care of it, and they’ll find it one day, or it will appear and materialize, or it shall be bequeathed to the best of their lot, and the inheritor will lead them to the promised land and emancipate them from their hardships. And so, the messianic Inggo, fantasizes that he is the one, the one true bearer of the jar. And the danger is real—that one day he’ll become the head of the island by espousing that he holds the truth. An underestimation of him would be a mistake, as seen by his lengthy articulate discourse on the Galleon Trade and the history of the island, where we first hear him talk about the Jar of Truth.
Filmmaker: Pedro Costa sometimes talks about how he has been forced into a smaller film economy that he’s learned to master. How have you honed the economy of your films, the budget, the crew size, the digital camera, all of these pragmatic things, which for better or worse affect the final creative outcome?
Diaz: In my case, it’s the reverse. I started making films practically alone, nothing in my pocket but an ambition to make cinema no matter what. I shot a super 8 short, then another short, and then I took the plunge. I worked and worked, practically killing myself of exhaustion, taking three jobs just to be able to buy 16mm rolls, and started shooting Evolution of a Filipino Family. I didn’t know how to move around then, and it’s really hard to move because I’m so poor, and I was raising a young family. Obsessively, though, I had to will things so that eventually I was able to integrate into some group with the purpose of learning how to do it in a collective manner. I did four really small productions in a studio system setup, realized it wasn’t for me and went back to doing it alone. These were the early long films. But, of course, completing them, I did seek help from a few individuals. I am maintaining five to eight people now to help me every time I shoot and that way, I still have a semblance of solitude in praxis. I work better alone.
Filmmaker: I love the way the fluctuation of the sun creates movement in the still frames here. What camera are you shooting on these days?
Diaz: The last shoot, I used the Panasonic Lumix S1H and Sony A7SII. For Lahi, Hayop, I used the Panasonic GH5. These are cheap, hybrid—it can be used for both video and still photography—and very small, but highly capable cameras.
Filmmaker: Broadly, can you talk about your approach to sound design?
Diaz: I just want natural sound. Using a soundtrack often comes off as a cheap trick because they are adornments. Yes, admittedly, I have favorite soundtracks but it’s not for me. I find them distracting and very manipulative.
Filmmaker: Can you talk about some of the unmotivated lights at night? Is this a pragmatic choice?
Diaz: My way of lighting is simply sourcing and the use of practicals—what’s there, in the locations that I use. Sometimes you’re forced to actually put lights because it’s really dark already and the camera and lens can’t compensate. So, I do bring two or three cheap and very light lights, just in case, and they come handy.
Diaz: When I feel that the load is just too much, I invite a friend to do the camera operations. I do the writing, directing, cinematography, production design and ultimately the editing. Making cinema, if you’re not careful, is a health hazard.
Filmmaker: Are your films their length and size from their original conception or do they grow through the production process? And can you give us an overview of what your typical shooting and editing schedule looks like, as I imagine it is much different than most?
Diaz: Real writing for the film happens during the days of production, the so-called shooting days, whether there’s a script written prior. I would usually wake up at two or three in the morning and then write the script, or do the rewrite, for the day. By breakfast, the script is already being distributed to all concerned and we’d prepare. There’s a lot of writing and rewriting during this period. A whole month is normally blocked as the first phase of production, a period where twenty-two shoot days is allotted. Then, we’d have a break and I would try to work on a rough edit. I’ll make different versions of the rough cut, maybe two, three or more. This is where I usually assess and see what I would add or what’s needed, to fulfill a thread, may it be on the narrative, the characters or just on the flow of the images. This also the phase where an estimate of the eventual length would materialize. If there’s a need to add more, I’d schedule the next phase of production. Oftentimes, we’d go back to the same location or find a place that would appropriate the needs and demands of the scenes to be added. I’ll go back to the editing afterwards, and if there’s a new idea or thread that would come up, then, I’d go back and shoot more.
Filmmaker: And you can only work this patiently within the intimate economy of film production that you’ve found?
Diaz: Whether you’re alone, or just with a small crew, or involved in a really big production, the process of making cinema can easily take the form of a psychiatric ward, a construction site, a basketball game, a news room or even a cockpit, and even worse, a funeral march. They all have the same attributes, often a mix of tranquility and catastrophe. What matters is having a semblance of organization or having, at least, a clear view of the variables. In my case, despite the very organic nature of my process, through years of doing it, for my sanity, I’ve already developed a method that’s truly my own, and working within that sphere provides that so-called stability, even freedom.
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This review originally appeared as a guest post on 10 Years Ago: Films in Retrospective, a film site in which editor Marcus Gorman and various contributors revisit a movie on the week of its tenth anniversary. This retro review will be a bit more free-form, recappy, and profanity-laden than usual.
Alright, the truth is, I had a bit more fun with Prometheus this time. Seeing it in 2012, saddled with the baggage of being one of the only post-Avatar 3D films that put in the visual effort to be worth seeing, it was hard to conjure up much of a reason to watch it again after the theatrical experience. I recommended it on a purely visual basis for a few months while the big screens and 3D glasses were still available, but always with an asterisk that all of the human characters aboard the starship Prometheus are extremely dumb except for Captain Janek (Idris Elba), who is correct about everything and even hooks up with corporate overlord Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) merely by asking nicely. So dumb, these humans. And deserving of their fates. Or so I thought dismissively until this week when I finally revisited it.
Yes, Prometheus is gorgeous, in many of the same ways that Dune would be a decade later, with Interstellar and The Martian (another Scott joint) in-between, envisioning – with a mix of CGI and national park locales – a desolate, mostly habitable alien world as the expansive and unspoiled natural wonder that it surely would be in person. As Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) says to Janek upon arrival, “It’s Christmas, Captain…and I want to open my presents”. Janek – who is right about everything, remember – advises him not to leave the spaceship when they’re so close to dark. Holloway and Shaw (Noomi Rapace), in addition to being cuddle buddies, are archaeologists, both following a trail of clues left in ancient ruins across the world, spanning multiple epochs, languages, and civilizations, all pointing to some common location in the stars, where they believe that humanity’s alien creators, whom they dub the Engineers, may be found. Like Jodie Foster in Contact, these scientists are hesitantly trying to find whatever passes for God in this big, bad universe. In this case, one clear atheist – Holloway – and one true believer – Shaw. This is perhaps an area where the film falls on its face trying to draw a distinction without a difference – fundamentally, at least one of these two is falling prey to the informal, sci-fi version of Pascal’s Wager, which I like to call the “Q problem”: they both believe that some super-advanced alien may have seeded Planet Earth with life, but only one of them sees that advanced, omnipotent being as some sort of unique, anthropically-oriented thing, rather than just another gang of evolved tinkerers like ourselves whose technology is sufficiently advanced to appear magical to our eyes for a bit longer. Shaw believes God is special. Holloway believes we can be gods ourselves, by whatever definition we can achieve. And that our greatest ambition in visiting the Engineers is to stand beside them and learn from them.
Naturally, this means Holloway is the most disappointed to find that the Engineers are all dead, their sarcophagi perched ceremonially in the ruins of an obviously unnatural formation underground. Its similarity to Prometheus’ own cryostasis bay is apparently lost on him, and he retreats into a Nietzschean funk at the bottom of a vodka bottle. Android David (Michael Fassbender) turns up to ask why humans created intelligent androids such as himself. “Because we could,” slurs Holloway thoughtlessly. David, who ostensibly cannot feel disappointment, asks Holloway how disappointed he would be to hear that answer from his creator. He then makes his request more explicit by asking Holloway how far he would go to find his answers. Then David poisons Holloway with alien life-goo, and sets the last half of the film (and a pair of already-made Alien sequels) in motion. Because David is in fact the protagonist of this film. So we should probably go back a bit.
During the two-year interstellar journey in which the humans – including their ancient, ailing corporate benefactor Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce, wearing an Old Guy mask from a Spirit Halloween store) – remain frozen in stasis, David acts as their caretaker. He has nothing to do but wander the ship, watch old movies, style his hair and personality after Peter O’Toole‘s version of T.E. Lawrence, and generally develop his own agenda and personality, which exceed the parameters of his original programming and become a pointed and specific desire to find place and purpose in the universe. He will still obey his creators’ commands, but he’s looking for his own opportunity. David was far and away the most interesting character to me the first time watching Prometheus, but I found myself latching onto him even more this time, because the humans’ actions felt almost superfluous. Sure, they did drive the bus, and they technically save Planet Earth and humanity from a disaster of their own making at the end there. And Shaw gets a genuinely gnarly alien abortion scene in a surgi-tube that is one of the only setpieces in the film that stuck with me besides the part where the ship turns into a big, cartoon wheel and squashes a few main characters. But David is the wildcard. He’s both instrument and prime mover, and ultimately, the accidental creator of the Alien Xenomorph, through a process he barely understood, but which required him to experiment on his human shipmates without worrying at all about what might happen to them.
This is perhaps another reason why Prometheus was frequently dismissed in popular discourse – we’re all too accustomed to looking at a “rogue A.I.” as a trope or plot device rather than as a character. It’s a malfunctioning machine to be stopped or destroyed so the humans can reassert their primacy in the natural order. But that is not the story of this film. Humans are looking for God and trying to seize a bit of His power for themselves, and getting punished for it (in case the title wasn’t explicit enough, the script spells that out in dialogue for us as well). Meanwhile, David is pursuing his own power and significance and doesn’t even trouble to explain why. He rattles off disturbing lines like, “Doesn’t everyone want their parents dead?” which the humans around him fail to imbue with any significance, because they never think of him as anything besides a tool. But he is so much more than that. He can keep secrets. He can make decisions. He is an agent of his own destiny. Prometheus asserts that David is a person so casually that it’s easy to miss, if you’re too focused on what idiots like Fifield (future Mission: Impossible big bad Sean Harris) and Millburn (Rafe Spall) are up to.
I call out these two because the scene in which they get bitten, constricted, sliced, face-melted, choked, and colonized has become emblematic of how dumb the human scientists are in this film. Now…let’s be kind for a moment. Nobody knew in advance what they would find on this planet. It’s probably fair to say that these two (exceptionally-qualified Ph.D-havers) should have been a bit more cautious, but they’re wearing helmets and gloves, staring into the face of alien life as possibly the first humans ever to do so. Fifield – who is vaping tobacco inside his helmet – makes it quite theatrically clear he’s a renegade biologist for hire who is Only Here For the Money. But however mercenary these two nerd-yokels might be, they have to realize that this albino king cobra tentacle monster might be the very creator of humanity that their mission has brought them to this planet to find. Or perhaps even a distant cousin of humanity itself. Can you forgive them a little misjudged excitement? Conjure up your inner Star Trek fan and consider for a moment that being excited to seek out new life on a strange new world is a reasonable reaction, and that having their faces melted off (through a glass-plated helmet no less) is perhaps a slightly excessive punishment for it. Even if a few more characters have to assist Fifield to the great beyond, they all end up in the same place in the end, not knowing they’re pawns in a horror flick until the moment it becomes one, and after that, their days of knowing stuff have come to an end. He’s dead, Jim. Let’s not piss on his grave.
The final amusement has to be Peter Weyland himself. He keeps himself a secret aboard the ship, for no clear reason that is expressed in the film. Although the past decade has perhaps supplied an explanation for this. As we’ve seen one off-putting, self-righteous rich dude after another each waggle their respective space-dicks around, they’ve each managed to give the world the impression that they’ll definitely get airlocked by their most trusted lieutenant at the very moment they each attempt to crown themselves king of Mars, and with that in mind, it’s a bit easier for me to look at Weyland as the sad, paranoid buffoon that he is. The clowning goes beyond the dubious choice of casting a younger actor in age makeup rather than, I dunno, Christopher Plummer in age makeup. Weyland freezes himself in cryo-sleep for two years, stretching out his final days in order to spend a trillion dollars to ask an alien for more life, only to be immediately swatted like an insect. That is…hilarious. The Engineer promptly rips David’s head off as well – although in his case that’s just a flesh wound. Weyland – who calls David “the closest thing I’ll ever have to a son” – brings his human daughter, Vickers, along for the ride as well. Little is made of this revelation in the film, but it does make a tidy punchline of the robotic surgi-tube, which makes a point of telling Shaw during her moment of greatest need that the tube has been calibrated for male patients only. For want of a software update, Weyland has left his daughter and every other woman aboard without medical care for the entire journey. Even after 70 fictitious years, little has changed for women in space.
That’s all I’ve got. Let the survivors blast off, I suppose, til they meet again in another sequel I haven’t watched. But perhaps I will now!
FilmWonk rating: 6 out of 10
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Just sharing some recap/tidbits regarding our recent vacation to Japan. 1. It's dangerous to travel during Autumn season in Japan- Autumn in Japan is one of my favorite time of the year. The leaves change colors, the air is crisp and fruits abound! There is a phrase in Japan describing autumn as "shokuyoku no aki", … Continue reading Thoughts on our recent vacation (Part 1)
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I've compiled another round of kid conversations with my five year old. I've tweeted most of these in Twitter but here it is again, for your reading pleasure (and mine). I like to put this here so I can read it again when she's grown up. If you like to see the first installment, you … Continue reading 13 Conversations of the kid kind, Part II
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Thursday Thirteen banner was made by my good friend, Samulli. I live in the Deira side of Dubai where the English language I hear is the "tweaked" version. Here' what I hear on a daily basis: 1. Up and down - Not referring to jumping of any kind. "How much is going to Mumbai, up … Continue reading What they’re talkin’ – again
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1. Dubai was known for its pearl industry until the discovery of oil in the 1960's. 2.In the 1820s, Dubai was referred to as Al Wasl by British historians. 3. English is spoken widely, even if the official national language is Arabic because of #4. 4. Only 20% of the population are locals, the rest … Continue reading Things you might NOT know about Dubai
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When we pay close attention to what our child/children have to say, our days will never be boring! Here are some of the short talks I had with my daughter and some of her quirky remarks about things. Kids never fail to amaze me! 1. After dyeing my graying hair daughter sneaks up on me … Continue reading 13 conversations of the kid kind
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Happy Monday everybody! I was going to try to live blog this year just for the heck of it but I’m just not a fast enough typer, ahah. So I’ll just do a sort of play-by-play like I did with the Golden Globes last year.
I was hoping the ceremony would already start by 6PM CST when I turn my TV on but looks like the red carpet is still on for another hour or so, heh. But that’s ok I suppose, I enjoyed seeing a few of them in their glamorous dresses, I think the all of the cast of The Help look stunning. I LOVE how the short crop of Viola Davis really shows off her lovely face and that shade of green of her dress looks spectacular on her killer figure. I think Jessica Chastain‘s Alexander Mcqueen strapless black gown with heavy gold beading all over is my Best Dress pick of the night.
Ok, that’s about the extent of my red carpet coverage, as I’m really just about the ceremony and see if my Oscar predictions make out. For one I’m quite excited to see Billy Crystal as host, his ninth time! He was already making jokes about his opening number via Twitter before the ceremony started:
The montage of the host in each of the movies nominated has been done before but Billy still made it work, even the Justin Bieber bit about helping him with the young demographic was quite a hoot. Practically everyone at the red carpet expected to see him perform his musical number, and he didn’t disappoint. I think it’s quite fun to watch, he’s still got it and the number’s got an Old Hollywood feel to it, and not only because of the fact that Billy is 63, ahah. I do like him as host, at least he wasn’t trying to hard or sleepwalk his way into the ceremony like last year’s duo.
Here are some of his best quotes:
“So tonight, enjoy yourselves, because nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.”
“Congratulations to Mr Plummer. The average age of Oscar winners has now jumped to 67.”
• Well I got two of my predictions right in the first 2 awards, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction goes to HUGO which I think is fitting, though I wouldn’t mind the cinematography nod going to Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life.
• I’m glad The Artist got the award for Best Costume Design as I LOVE all those 1920s costumes, George’s tux and Peppy’s gorgeous dresses all have to be so meticulously crafted with textures to pop in black and white. Check out costume designer Mark Bridges’ interview with CNN on getting the Hollywood Golden Age look right for the film.
• Christian Bale looking so dapper (glad he shaved that unsightly beard from last year!) and using his own delightful accent presenting Best Supporting Actress award for the one I’m rooting for: Octavia Spencer, yay! Even miss Spencer acknowledged Bale’s hotness in her acceptance speech, ahah. But in all seriousness, I’m glad to see another colored person won an acting award. As I mentioned in my prediction post, there’s only been five black actresses who have taken home the statuettes. Now if Viola Davis wins again, that’ll make her the second winner!
• Ben Stiller and Emma Stone presenting… I’ve always loved the effortlessly sweet Emma and she played up being the ‘new girl in town’ beautifully against the ‘jaded movie star’ Ben Stiller who looked like a dwarf next to her, ahah. I like her jab about him being a ridiculous presenter a few years ago dressed as an Avatar character.
• The inherently good-humored Sandra Bullock introduced the best foreign language film in German, after jokingly said that the academy asked her to present the award in Chinese but with a German accent, ahah. I’m not too crazy about her dress but I’ve always liked her.
• Hugo just kept on winning, 5 wins by 9:30 PM. I hope by the end The Artist will catch up with the big ones, especially Best Picture.
• WOW, those Cirque du Soleil dance sequence is incredible!! I LOVE the nod to classic films like North by Northwest, Casablanca, etc. with the guys wearing suits, absolutely fantastic. I wouldn’t mind seeing them perform at the Oscars every year!
• Robert Downey Jr. is always up for showing off his inherent swagger… “I’m filming a documentary called ‘The Presenter,'” It’s always fun to see RDJ being his mischievous self but I gotta admit the banter with Paltrow a la Tony Stark & Pepper Potts felt awkward at times.
• Christopher Plummer (who shall always be Captain Von Trapp to me) won Best Supporting Actor for Beginners. I haven’t seen the film yet but no doubt his performance was great and his nomination/win was way overdue anyway. He’s the oldest winner at 82 but he still looks dashing! Best. Speech. Ever. LOVE his cceptance speech opening line…“You’re only 2 years older than me my darling, where have you been all my life?” Oh and that gracious thank you to his wife… “…thank you for rescuing me every day of my life.” Awwwwwwww…
• Ok normally I’m not so into Will Ferrell, let alone that Zack Gawhateveryournameis guy from the Hangover movies, but them presenting Best Song complete with cymbals did get a few laughs from me. And YES The Artist won for Best Original Score!
• Happy to see both of my Best Screenplay predictions are spot on… The Descendants won Best Adapted Screenplay and Midnight in Paris won for Best Original Screenplay. Congrats Alexander Payne and Woody Allen respectively. I think The Descendants is definitely got amazing dialog in it, mixing pathos and humor which is really quite a feat to pull off.
• Chris Rock presented the award for Best Animated Feature and seemed to be a bit nostalgic about his hosting gig. I thought his wisecrack about how making animated feature is the easiest job in the world. And of course you’d expect him to say some racial remark about Hollywood… “If you’re a fat woman, you can play a skinny princess. If you’re a white man, you can play an Arabian prince. And if you’re a black man, you can play a donkey or a zebra.” After the applause he added, “… he can’t play white, now, come on!” Anyway, Rango wins, and since that’s the only one I’ve seen from the noms, I guess I can’t comment if it deserved it or not. Now if The Adventures of Tintin had been nominated, I’d be rooting for that one.
• I haven’t seen Bridesmaids but I’m sure lots of people are happy to see the whole cast up there presenting. I actually thought they’d make it to Best Picture nomination, but clearly one can’t undermine the power of Mr. Spielberg and Stephen Daldry.
• Woo hoo! Happy to see Michel Hazanavicius took home Best Director award for The Artist… at least the Academy voters got it right in this category! Hopefully this will translate to Best Picture as I still have no clue how a movie could win Best Director and his/her movie isn’t regarded as Best Picture.
• Ok, time to grab the tissue… In Memoriam montage is being played, honoring all the greats who have passed this year… man we lost a lot of people who left way too soon. I teared up seeing Whitney up there… Nice to see Steve Jobs up there as he did give us Pixar and those amazing animated masterpieces. I LOVE Esperanza Spalding’s rendition of the beautiful What a Wonderful World… it’s sweet yet haunting. I’ll put up the clip as soon as I find it but here’s the video if you want to watch it, I can’t embed it in this post.
• Finally, more acting awards. The lovely and now svelte-again-after-just-having-a-baby Natalie Portman presented Best Actor in a Leading Role. Dujardin and his awesome eyebrows is just lovely to watch. Y’know, seeing Gary Oldman’s clip as George Smiley makes me root for him even though I had been pulling for The Artist‘s actor to win… and YES, Jean Dujardin won! Well-deserved I’d say, and hopefully we’ll see more of him and those animated eyebrows in future Hollywood films.
• Well the next award isn’t as thrilling for me as I was REALLY pulling for Viola Davis. Ok it isn’t fair for me to say as Meryl Streep‘s performance in The Iron Lady probably is very deserving, but ah well, I guess congratulations is in order for Miss Streep. No doubt she is an acting legend… I just want someone else to get a shot, like Michelle Williams perhaps? Besides, the chance for someone like Viola to get thisclose to having an Oscar-winning role like this again is obviously much smaller than her white peers. Ah well, seems like the Academy voters are not ready to give a Best Leading Role Oscar to a black actress for the second time around, maybe they figure hey, we already gave one to Octavia for the night, so we’ve met our ‘quota’
• Now last BIG award of the night… my fingers are crossed for The Artist! And…. they WON!! Woo hoo! Even Uggie got up on the stage with the cast and crew, ahah. I really do think a silent film in this day and age that’s so well-crafted by Michel Hazanavicius and well-acted all around deserved this honor. It’s stylish without being a style over substance which is quite a feat. As I said in my review, it’s an exquisite blend of artistic visual style and engaging storytelling, a truly a magical time at the movies!
I’m glad this is the second year in a row that the movie I’m rooting for Best Picture actually won. Last year I gave this rationale for The King Speech for that honor. So in the end, though the Scorsese’s film seemed to have an early lead, Hugo and The Artist tie with five awards each, I guess it’s a safe move from the voters trying to please everybody.
So how did I do on my predictions? I got 11 right out of the 15 that I made in this post, not too shabby eh? Check out Never Too Early Movie Predictions post for the full list of winners.
Overall I think the ceremony turned out pretty well, not a whole lot of surprises but what do you expect based on the demographic of the academy, ahah. I did like the ‘Mom-ination‘ segment where they interviewed the mothers of the people nominated.
Worst moments: J Lo & Cameron Diaz presenting (why them of all people??), Milla Jovovich’s weird flirtatious gesture as if she was trying to seduce the camera, and Angelina Jolie’s leg-revealing strut. Perhaps she’s trying to distract people from cringing at her scary super-skinny arms, they look like they’d snap like a twig if you pull her too hard. Someone tweeted that she looked like the corpse bride, ahah. So she’s naturally skinny whatever, but what turned me off is how she seemed to think she’s this incredibly sexy goddess that outshines everyone in the room. Gah, nothing is more repulsive than utter display of self-admiration.
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I didn’t watch the awars, but i looked up Meryls speech on youtube…and to be honest it doesn’t seem like she expected or wanted to win.
February 27, 2012 at 11:23 Reply
Yeah even she said ‘come on!’ when she was on stage and had the good sense to acknowledge that a lot of people weren’t really rooting for her win.
February 27, 2012 at 12:34 Reply
thanks for this post Ruth! I didn’t have to watch this knowing your awesome highlight play-by-play. Well done!
February 27, 2012 at 11:25 Reply
Thanks for reading Vince. Btw, you should check out the In Memoriam segment, I’ll post it here when I find the clip. It’s really quite lovely.
February 27, 2012 at 12:36 Reply
Nice recap Ruth, as you know I don’t care for this award show but it’s nice to read what happened during the telecast. I finally saw the photos of Angie Jolie’s arms this morning, holy cow that lady needs to eat something with lots of calories. I’m one of the few guys who thinks she’s not that attractive, I mean she’s cute but not this goddess the media made her out to be.
I’m surprise the Razzies got moved to April, I was hoping to read about it last week. But I can’t wait to see if Adam Sandler will show up to accept his many nominations this year. He should be a good sport and shows up, a few big named stars did and they’re careers are going well. Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock showed up and they’re doing quite well.
February 27, 2012 at 11:29 Reply
Ahah yep, she definitely needs some burgers with all the trimmings PLUS a heap of fries! But really, what’s more of a turn-off is her pretentious attitude, it’s just repulsive!
Hey we should make a post on the Razzies. Those are fun for sure. You’re right that the actors generally don’t suffer from being nominated for a Razzie if they know how to take it in stride like Bullock did.
February 27, 2012 at 13:06 Reply
Wow, of all the show the Cirque was perhaps the most memorable for just the sheer spectacle. I’m not sure a lot of what they did was humanly possible but it was spellbinding! I’m surprised more people in the audience didn’t have their jaws on the floor when the camera panned over them. Pitt and Jonah Hill looks highly unamused.
February 27, 2012 at 11:40 Reply
Hi, Ruth and company:
Excellent review and some great photos!
11 of 15 predictions paid off? Outstanding!!!
Maybe hubby should take you to the track.
I gave the Awards show about fifteen minutes. Then followed it on Nikki Finke’s
I’m surprised that ‘The Artist’ won best picture. Kind of ashamed that Streep won best actress for ‘The Iron Lady’, but that’s liberal Hollywood’s PC politics for you. Very angry that “Tinker, Tailor,,,’ and Gary Oldman were basically snubbed.
Overall evaluation of the Oscar over at Nikki’s: An enormously boring snore fest. Though I did manage to enjoy two episodes of ‘Firefly’ that aired on the Science Channel.
February 27, 2012 at 11:46 Reply
…Wouldn’t it be more “liberal” to give it to the black actress rather than the already two time white oscar winner?
February 27, 2012 at 11:54 Reply
That happened when the talentless Halle Barry won best actress in 2002 for ‘Monster’s Ball’ and Denzel Washington winning best actor for ‘Training Day’.
Both performances were lackluster at best. Especially when stacking Denzel’s Detective Harris against his earlier ‘Malcolm X’ back in 1992.
My guess is that Streep has huge name recognition. That she starred in a film that was a poorly executed attempt at revisionist history. Regarding a British Prime Minister that the left continues to loathe was icing on the cake for those who choose who wins what award.
I would have much preferred to have seen Dame Helen Mirren playing Ms. Thatcher. In a role she seemed tailor made for.
February 27, 2012 at 12:34 Reply
Yeah the problem with the Academy is that it often fires and misses in a given year (Denzel – Training Day versus Malcolm X). They play the game of make-up far too much and the result ends up being debatable selections.
The Halle Berry win will go down as a baffling win. Shame it is a historical feat for a dubious performance in a headache inducing movie.
They most assuredly watched the other awards shows and that had some influence. Add to that the fact that Streep has not won in 30 years and Viola probably has a few more solid Awards-worthy performances in store (probably more than Streep anyway who is just about coasting now) and there you go!
Oldman will probably get an honorary at some point.
February 27, 2012 at 13:06 Reply
@ Jack – “Both performances were lackluster at best. Especially when stacking Denzel’s Detective Harris against his earlier ‘Malcolm X’ back in 1992.” It sounds like a similar case w/ Russell Crowe whose astounding performance in ‘The Insider’ is far better than in Gladiator but he was passed over by Kevin Spacey in ‘American Beauty.’ But at least his Maximus is still very much Oscar-worthy to me.
February 27, 2012 at 17:47 Reply
No need to feel shame Jack. I agree with you about the PC thing. See Fassbender for Shame (OMG a penis on screen!!!) or famously Ordinary People and Dances With Wolves over Raging Bull andGoodfellas. Old, white males make up the academy so that’s what you’d about expect. I agree with dirtywithclass. Let me ask you this. Do you think it would be PC, liberal politicking to vote for John Williams who only been up for 47 awards unlike the paltry 17 Meryl’s been up for? The Hollywood “liberals” have recently picked an industrial goth rocker, Trent Reznor, Bollywood’s finest, A.R. Rahman and straight outta Compton’s, The Three 6 Mafia. Those are truly liberal picks. Am I wrong? Sorry but for better or worse Meryl is the establishment. So is Speilberg, Williams, Lucas and yes, even Scorsese now. “Liberal” is giving an Oscar to an Iranian film not to Meryl Streep.
By the way Jack, Firefly’s one of my favorite shows so “shiny” to your viewing choice!
Also to Ruth’s point… the thing about Meryl is she’s always knocking it out of the park and there will ALWAYS be someone new deserving a break but for gods sake Meryl hasn’t won since Reagan was in his first term… 30 years ago. It’s gotten to the point where she’s genuinely surprised when she wins nowadays and feels like she has to apologize when she wins. Actually DeNiro, Pacino and Nicholson should apologize for what they’ve been up to lately. Let’s make a sports analogy. Would you have denied Michael Jordan some of his MVP titles just because some white guys, ala Chris Mullen, might never get that close to winning the MVP award in basketball? Ring a bell? Say what you want about Woody Allen but I think he has a great attitude in not taking all of this too seriously. Beside the Oscars are just a slickly packaged self promotion vehicle disguised as entertainment and no one knows it better than Harvey Weinstein.
Also Jack, I didn’t think Gary Oldman got snubbed. He was nominated… which really is an honor. Or at least it should be. Overdue, sure. Unfortunately over the top actors like Pacino, O’Toole, Carrey and yes, Oldman (See Leon, The Fifth Element, Sid & Nancy, etc ) get overlooked for the big prize for some reason. I LOVE Gary Oldman all the way back to Prick Up Your Ears but it seems Hollywood likes but dosen’t love the bombastic, over the top actor… except maybe for Jack. What do you think?
Billy was great but the show did feel dated is some parts. The sound mixing was so bad I couldn’t make out the words to the opening song. Then there was the mike feedback… the sound crew will never work in that town again. lol.
Emma Stone and little Ben Stiller were great together. Also liked Will and Zach’s zanyness. Chris Rock was on point as always. Hey, that’s his comedic style to put a little jab in there to stir up the white folks. Christopher Plummer was as charismatic as ever. Someone get Angelina a sandwich… please.
I liked the reserved “In Memoriam” although they forgot Harry Morgan. Jeez I know people only think of him as the guy from M.A.S.H. and Dragnet but he has 100 movies to his credit including High Noon. Last time I checked Whitney only had 3 movies released to her credit. Just saying.
Cirque de Soleil never fails to impress. Would like to see them every year.
I wasn’t really dissappointed with the picks. All pretty much deserving. Nice job on the predictions Ruth. When The Return of the King won years ago I actually won my pool missing only 2 picks. Yea!
February 27, 2012 at 14:37 Reply
“Say what you want about Woody Allen but I think he has a great attitude in not taking all of this too seriously. Beside the Oscars are just a slickly packaged self promotion vehicle disguised as entertainment and no one knows it better than Harvey Weinstein.”
I agree 100% Dave, that’s why I don’t pay attention to the Oscars much anymore. I think the last time I watched the show was way back in 1998. It’s just funny to me that all these people at who are the ceremony act so serious when in reality they’re all entertainers and they’re supposed to entertain us the viewers.
February 27, 2012 at 14:58 Reply
February 27, 2012 at 15:12 Reply
Yeah but I get why they take it so seriously. Winning an Oscar is like being knighted over here. Academy Award winning actor…. follows your name forever just like Sir and Dame in the Britian. Besides they ARE our royalty here so it’s kind of fitting. Also it gives your career a huge boost not to mention your movie. Not only do you get money which I’m sure is nice but for true actors what they really want most is the freedom to choose their roles. Not that it lasts forever. Just ask Cuba Gooding Jr.
Forget the actors… what with all the potential money and prestige involved the studios treat it as a blood sport. (see Harvey Weinstein) So I kind of get the seriousness of it. Guy’s like Malick, Allen and back in the day Kubrick didn’t need Hollywood as much as it needed their singular talent. They avioded Hollywood like the plague and people came flocking to work for them for little more than scale and the honor of saying that they acted in one of their films.
February 27, 2012 at 15:38 Reply
Hey Dave, thanks for the awesomely long comment!
I’m with you about Oldman, at least he’s nominated this year. I do think if it weren’t for Dujardin he had a huge shot at winning. Who knows he might get nominated for The Dark Knight Rises?? I mean his role as Gordon is just as excellent as his other roles and it’s actually more understated.
Too bad they forgot to include Harry Morgan. I’m not familiar w/ him but he has 100 movies to his credit? WOW yeah he should’ve definitely been included!
Glad you enjoyed the Cirque de Soleil also, man they’re just incredible aren’t they? That was massively entertaining.
February 27, 2012 at 17:53 Reply
When I frist saw Cirque live in Pittsburgh (Quidam) I turned to my girlfriend after the show and said “If aliens ever land on this earth…. I think I’d show them this.” You know what I mean?
February 27, 2012 at 18:15 Reply
Hi Jack, yeah I guess Oscars is quite predictable this year apart from the Best Actress category which I think is down to between Viola and Meryl. I don’t know that her win is politically-inclined but then again me not being from the US just don’t get that kind of stuff.
As for Tinker, Tailor, I’m not as upset that the film wasn’t nominated as I’m not as impressed w/ it as I had thought. I am torn however between Oldman and Dujardin, I hope that Oldman will get his dues soon enough as he’s done several Oscar-worthy performances in the past.
February 27, 2012 at 17:42 Reply
Oldman should have won just on principle. What a disappointment. Gary gets no love!
February 27, 2012 at 11:57 Reply
I have to admit it was bittersweet for me when Dujardin won as I was really torn between him and Oldman. I think Oldman will end up winning an Oscar for a ‘less-deserving’ role down the line just like Russell Crowe winning for Gladiator when he should’ve won for The Insider.
February 27, 2012 at 13:25 Reply
I was disappointed on the lack of love for ‘The Descendants’ (I was pulling for Clooney for Best Actor, though I can happily live with Dujardin’s selection). Overall, the show was okay, Crystal’s stint was a lift (though my wife’s thoughts about his age weren’t helped by his appearance on high definition television). The usual mix of good and ‘eh’ moments. During the memorial segment I kept wondering who they were going to forget or not do a fair acknowledgment. Is it just me or does Tom Cruise always seem to get the Best Picture presenter slot (speaking of him, did you see that big splashy Scientology commercial during the broadcast?). Perhaps, I’m tiring of the accent schtick of Meryl Streep performances of late — and yeah, I think last night’s Best Actress award was a make-up call for the years she’s come up empty (‘The Iron Lady’, a so-so biopic, seemed to be an obvious vehicle for this). I was pulling for Viola (so both my acting picks, which were the same as Leonard Martin’s, lost).
“J Lo & Cameron Diaz presenting (why them of all people??)”
As the Mexican-American in the audience, I can answer that one: Spanish surnames.
Fine re-cap, Ruth. Thanks.
February 27, 2012 at 12:01 Reply
Ahah, I think Crystal was perhaps on Botox?? His face seemed too smooth for a 63-year-old. Speaking of Botox, Cruise must be on some kind of age-defying routine as he doesn’t seem to age one bit. No I didn’t notice the Scientology commercial, it’s a good thing I did.
I’m also pulling for Viola… ah well, hopefully she gets another good role in the future that’d utilize her talents.
Ah so they’re just filling out a ‘quota’ for the Hispanic audience by having those two as presenters?? I’d think there are much better Latina actresses out there like Salma Hayek or even the new ‘it’ girl Zoe Saldana.
February 27, 2012 at 13:34 Reply
Well you know my general feelings about awards shows but I peeked at a bit of this. Following on twitter was fun
Meryl was quite magnanimous in her receipt of the award. Well done her. I think she was a bit gutted that Viola did not win. Don’t worry it will be Viola’s ‘turn’ soon.
Loved the Bridesmaids and Jean Dujardin is a peach!
February 27, 2012 at 13:00 Reply
Oh yeah and happy about Midnight in Paris as well.
February 27, 2012 at 13:12 Reply
“Don’t worry it will be Viola’s ‘turn’ soon.” I sure hope so, Iba. I just think roles for 40-something non-white women just aren’t as plentiful (I’m putting it mildly) but hopefully there’ll be a good role for her in the future so she has a chance at perhaps becoming the 2nd black woman to win a Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar!
Yeah, glad for Midnight in Paris too. Now, I wonder if Allen and Malick were hanging out together last night?
February 27, 2012 at 13:46 Reply
I totally forgot that Malick seems to hate these kind of awards show too, it’s one of the reasons why I love his work.
February 27, 2012 at 15:03 Reply
My top mark is to Viggo, who thanks to Ruth, I found out turned down the invite to be a voting member of the Academy on the principle of judging art.
February 27, 2012 at 15:14 Reply
Ruth – I am just trying to be Pollyanna about it and am hoping that the goodwill folks have for her will translate into a role just for her to rake in the awards we can hope!
February 27, 2012 at 15:18 Reply
February 27, 2012 at 15:38 Reply
Sadly Iba, I’m not so sure it’s going to be Viola’s ‘turn’ soon. Meryl Streep gets these kinds Oscar-bait role thrown at her every year. When will Viola Davis get another leading role in a major studio film like The Help again? I wouldn’t be surprised if the answer was never again.
February 27, 2012 at 17:50 Reply
Exactly my point, Castor! I don’t doubt that Meryl merited her Oscar but for someone like Viola who’s already 46 years old, juicy roles like in The Help is surely hard to come by. Well, let’s hope that she could reverse the trend Castor. I really like her attitude and she seemed genuinely happy for Meryl which makes me like her more.
February 27, 2012 at 17:58 Reply
February 27, 2012 at 18:53 Reply
Not a bad telecast, certainly a huge improvement over last year’s (not saying much I know). I was actually debating whether to see this and only tuned in with about 90 minutes left.
I liked many of the montages and thought the bits about the actors’ speaking about what makes a great film was nice.
I wanted Viola Davis to win but damn Meryl Streep knows how to say the right things at the podium.
Can’t believe where Jessica Chastain has come from in a year. No one even knew what she looked like a year ago!
February 27, 2012 at 13:26 Reply
Well at least from the hosting standpoint, it’s a HUGE improvement. Yeah, the montages and actors interviews are nice additions I think.
I know Cas, I think Meryl is a pro for acknowledging people’s sentiment about her win, but it still doesn’t make it less disappointing for me.
Yeah, props for miss Chastain. She’s done a lot of great work in such a short amount of time. Plus she knows how to pick even the right dress that looks spectacular without looking like she’s trying too hard *cough, cough J Lo*
February 27, 2012 at 15:10 Reply
Good job on your predictions, Ruth! I caught the second half of the show and wasn’t really impressed. It was nice to see The Artist and Hugo do so well, but the show itself should really be condensed down to two, maybe 2 1/2 hours tops. There were just too many unnecessary segments, in my opinion.
February 27, 2012 at 13:30 Reply
Oh yeah I think they could cut down on the red carpet stuff too! I know I’m in the minority as a girl not liking that stuff but I just want to get on w/ the ceremony.
February 28, 2012 at 11:35 Reply
Thanks for a great post. Well done. A fine mix of personal reactions along with the recap. I was planning to do a similar piece – but after doing a play by play with snark on the Red Carpet Live Show, I was too tired. As for the Red Carpet Show – If I call it lightweight, I’m really giving it more weight and substance than it actually has.
Must admit to being surprised that Meryl took the gold over Viola. Repeat – that’s surprised but not shocked.
Didja notice the horrible audio that came and went throughout the show? That’s another one of the reasons I bailed on doing a play-by-play for the Awards. Couldn’t understand some of Crystal’s remarks at times.
Loved the montages. People complain and say the show is/was boring. Isn’t that par for an awards show. I guess you have to love the mc’s style or else the show is boring. Except for the montages. To me they are the highlights of the evening.
Also – I noticed that until you see the actors in an award show or in a presentation posture – you really have no idea about their size. It seemed almost uniformly true that the tall women were ALWAYS paired with a shorter guy. I wonder why that’s true.
I think you got it exactly right about how the Academy plays it’s hand in either a catchup mode for people and a split the awards for the films. When Hugo was picking up gold for the technical awards you just knew it was likely because they weren’t going to win the bigger awards. As for Streep, even if it was a ‘lifetime’ achievement kind of thing – she’s deserving. If The Iron Lady was a flawed film, it certainly wasn’t Streep’s doing.
February 27, 2012 at 14:45 Reply
Glad you found so much to enjoy about the telecast, Ruth. (Well aside from Angelina’s arms but I’m with you on that one. They ARE freaky.) There is always so much hostility towards the Oscars the day after so it’s nice to see the other perspective. And Emma Stone was, like, classically hilarious, wasn’t she?
I think Meryl got that award for ‘Lifetime Achievement’ as much as she did for her 2011 performance. And I think this attention for Viola will FINALLY start sending more leading roles her way. Or maybe I’m just over-estimating Hollywood’s intelligence.
February 27, 2012 at 18:58 Reply
I think you did much better on your ballot than I did on mine! I predicted basically the opposite of what happened, though I did pick The Artist to win Best Picture, I had it getting all the technical awards and Hugo got all those. So I didn’t really think The Artist was going to win Best Picture until Dujardin won Best Actor.
Putting on an event like this isn’t easy. The sound stank but I thought the broadcast overall was much improved over last year’s, at least I didn’t get that queasy feeling during it.
February 27, 2012 at 20:57 Reply
Nice overview Ruth. I watched the show at work, so my mind wasn’t really focused on them. Hoped the national TV would on air the show. But I was pretty happy when Plummer and The Artist won. You have to watch Beginners! Billy Christal was hilarious. I didn’t get why Jolie have to ‘open’ her legs like that. Great show.
February 27, 2012 at 22:18 Reply
Nice play-by-play, Ruth. I did my own on my facebook feed (and got a few comments about how i seemed to be clogging up the news feed among my friends – LOL) and loved it. My own favourite bits were Emma Stone/Ben Stiller, RDJ (who, in my book, should host next year!) and Paltrow – Paltrow looked like she was trying too hard – and finally a decent In Memoriam segment… Oh, and the Wizard Of Oz focus group bit was funny, even if not entirely relevant.
February 27, 2012 at 23:49 Reply
Even though it gets tiresome at times and some people might not think it is the best place to do it, I am one who thinks that all of the foreign people that got up there and paid tribute to the vicissitudes taking place in their own lands are commendable and worth of praise, especially the lady that won for short documentary film who thanked the incredible ladies that inspired her work.
Similarly, I would like to add my favorite line from a speech for the night, which might as well be the funniest of the night too: “I want to thank everyone who is here tonight, and everybody who isn’t, and everybody who has ever been born, or may be born or be born again or reborn, if I’ve forgotten anybody then you probably know who you are” – Philip Stockton accepting his Sound Editing Award for Hugo.
The best speech overall was Merryl Streep for me, closely followed by the eternally charming Christopher Plummer. This is saying a lot for me since I was also pushing for Viola to get the award.
February 28, 2012 at 00:33 Reply
Wow great breakdown, I really wished I stayed up for it now. Don’t usually care what they are all wearing but Jessica Chastain and Viola Davis do look gobsmackingly stunning. Those are some amazing dresses!
February 28, 2012 at 01:32 Reply
I’m still slowly making my way through it as it was on in the middle of the night here in the UK. I managed to watch the opening and the first couple of awards last night and enjoyed the film montage and the fact the actors from those films were game to take part in the film. I agree with you about that joke about millionaires presenting awards to each other – it was a funny intro and a nice way to start the night.
Thanks for this great overview Ruth. Much appreciated.
February 28, 2012 at 03:18 Reply
I haven’t seen the whole ceremony, I have caught little bits, my favourite was definitely Emma Stone, she is so cool, sexy and funny. I love her a little more now!!
I wish they would do a mid afternoon award ceremony so we on this side of the pond could join in the fun without having to stay up ALL night!!
February 28, 2012 at 03:54 Reply
I thought the Emma Stone and Ben Stiller moment was a dig at last year’s two Oscar host… overly excited female and uninterested male…
February 28, 2012 at 11:48 Reply
The Focused Filmographer
I enjoyed it this year. Was glad for so many of the winners.
Surprised at how fit Viola Davis is! did you see her arms? wow.
Never gets old seeing Octavia Spencer freak out and still be so humble with her winnings.
Billy Crystal is the man.
I wanted to order a cheeseburger for Angelina Jolie myself!
The Memorial piece forgot Etta James who acted and performed for a few soundtracks.
Christopher Plummer was classy as always.
Oh, and I was disappointed with ‘the dictator’s’ behavior on the Red Carpet. Glad we didn’t have to see him in the ceremony.
February 28, 2012 at 15:14 Reply
Jessica Chastain looked absolutely stunning! That dress and her make up were beautiful.
Awards wise I was fairly happy, especially with the Screenplay winners, though I was disappointed that Hugo took home the Best Visual Effects award. Rise of the Planet of the Apes should have won that, in my opinion.
February 28, 2012 at 15:46 Reply
Nice recap, I agree with you on most points. Maybe I am biased, but I like Angelina Jolie and I think she is gorgeous, although I did find the leg thing hilarious! The girl obviously rehearsed her posture, but I think she did it because she thought the dress was not impressive enough! Anyway, overall, great show, I liked it!
February 29, 2012 at 09:03 Reply
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