Sure, we all love Star Wars

But come on people. Aren't you taking this just a little too far?

The happy couple below with their wedding cake.

How many teeth?

There are 23 skulls in the living room at the moment. The wife loves to decorate for Halloween. This particular one is usually perched above the TV and hardly significant. Except, it has a lot of teeth. Three rows of teeth. WTF?

The Problem With Hollywood #172

Here in the great fly over, I rarely get to see the inner workings of the Hollywood machine. But recently I got a little taste of the way things may or may not be run out there in Movieland.

At my day job I deal with textiles. And in this particular case, a neon green fabric that’s going to be used on a large green screen (not the one pictured). I’m dealing with the guy that’s building the green screen and he’s in a big hurry. He has been given almost no time at all to build this gigantic screen.

Now, somewhere along the line, I’m guessing that whoever is making this movie had figured out that they’re going to need a big green screen for the whizz bang flying scene. It’s right there in the script . Doesn’t anyone read these things?

So, at great expense, we fly this material across the whole continent. Usually something like this would ship on an 18 wheeler at a fraction of the cost. But there’s this big damn hurry.

Then after everything is done and paid for, my customer tells me that he didn’t really need such nice fabric. He could have gotten by with lesser fabric but I didn’t happen to have that in stock at the moment. The only thing he really liked was the color.

I could have gotten him what he really wanted for less than half of what he paid. But money was no object. Time was the critical component because no one had planned anything. How can you run a business like that?

Is all of Hollywood run like this? I suspect so.

Next time someone tells you, between sobs, how expensive it is to make a movie these days. Just figure that they’ve pissed away half of the profits because they’ve been too busy being important and lazy.

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