Fan Group Creates Full-Length Discworld Movie 261
greenrd writes "'Almost No Budget Films,' a group of Terry Pratchett fans from Germany, recently finished a 9-month filming stint on a full-length dramatisation of pterry's novel 'Lords and Ladies.' A grand total of 300 euros were spent on this production, and all profits from this fan movie will go to the Orangutan Foundation. Check out the new English trailer for some grin-inducing special effects!"
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Unlikely, those links point to a university.
If you see a link with uni-*.de it's always a university.
Lords and Ladies... (Score:2, Informative)
my lord... my laaady...
Bittorent copy (Score:5, Informative)
Site is nuked so get it from here.
Link slashdotted (Score:3, Informative)
Google cache of the webpage at - http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:QuFjhiYyVvQJ
Great stuff... here's where to find more. (Score:5, Informative)
For more stuff quite like this, check out Channel 101 [channel101.com] and its New York sister site, Channel 102 [channel102.net].
For an example of how brilliant zero-budget filmmaking can be, check out their winner for this month's contest: House of Cosbys [channel101.com].
If you don't laugh at this, you're probably Bill Cosby. And even then.... well, just click.
The turtle moves! (Score:5, Informative)
Cool!
But I just hope in Terry Gilliam to find the budget [smart.co.uk] to start Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman's "Good Omens"!
Wouldn't that be great?
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Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisement said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighbourhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches.
Would it have been so hard... (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:Adding the "books that should be movies" subthr (Score:4, Informative)
Gavin Scott, the Butcher of Earthsea, should not be allowed to read or write ever again.
But you are right on the SnowCrash thing or A Diamond Age which I also enjoyed.
Trailer mirror (Score:5, Informative)
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/temp/lnluksm.avi [acc.umu.se]
Re:lords and ladies (Score:4, Informative)
Well, Lords and Ladies is the first book where the author thought it worth including a note in the front to the effect that it helps to have read them in some kind of order. (And gave a short summary of events so far.)
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Clearly you have no knowledge of the german university system. Foreign students pay the exact same fees as german students - up until now only "administrative" fees of only a few hundred euros per semester (real tuition is only being phased in at the moment). Germany has thus for many years been probably the most affordable first world country for foreigners to study in. (Though their numbers have been kept comparably low as a result of german language requirements).
I thus really resent your uninformed statement - especially after a recent experience of a friend being in a masters program in England with 80% chinese that paid high tuition, and even though they very much depressed the level of academic discourse of course all got their degrees. Talk about "mostly oriental" cash cows.
Greetings, B.
References: German academic exchange service: Lack of Tuition Fees in Germany a Big Draw for Foreign Students (04/04/2002) [campus-germany.de]
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ROFL... this is the most incompetent troll I've seen for a long time; everyone knows that the goatse.cx account has been suspended for *months*! (BTW, looks like its replacement, goat.cx has met a similarly tragic fate)
Good account name though...
Re:No (Score:3, Informative)
Probably a good manager overall, but didn't exactly ensure they were getting the money from Beatles merchandise.
Col. Tom Parker and Elvis
I'd subscribe to the theory that he did a good job in the beginning, bringing Elvis to stardom, but ultimately he destroyed Elvis as a credible artist. Apparently, lots of (very fashionable) people wanted to work with Elvis in the 60s/70s, but he put the lid on that; and he was the one that pushed Elvis to do a gruelling number of shows in Las Vegas (as apparently Parker had lots of gambling debts that needed financing), which probably contributed to Elvis's early death. Elvis hardly went on tour outside the US, it's speculated because Parker was an illegal immigrant, and thus couldn't travel and exert control on Elvis when he was out of the country.
The much-praised '68(?) Comeback Special was (IIRC) done *against* Parker's wishes.
hell, Bill Gates and MS-DOS)
Why is MS-DOS A Good Thing? It was an unwieldy rip-off of CP/M.
Would this stifle their creativity? Maybe
See Col. Tom Parker, above, and consider how quickly Elvis was pushed from credible rock n' roll artist into commercially-friendly MOR singer then into Vegas cabaret artist.
I mean, seriously, it's ******* weird when you think about it.
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Don't. I live in Sweden. I'm a Swede. Too much of my tax money is lost, paying for the enormous and inefficient administration of the system.
I am a contractor and I have to expect 75% of the money I invoice to go to taxes and fees. No matter how much use I make of the free healthcare and education I can't get my money's worth. I don't mind contributing some to other people's healthcare and education through taxes, but not to this extent.
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Unfortunately that's not the reality. I live in Sweden and I pay HUMONGOUS taxes, yet every time I visit the doctor I have to pay a fee to visit him.
In fact, ALL the things that are supposedly free (following the socialistic-system that you describe) still come with very vagely described fees that I have no choice but to pay.
To summarize: This sucks.
As far as the crimerate goes - I felt safer when I was in Los Angeles than when I was in Stockholm. Swedish police is insanely underfunded and overworked. For example, in my home-municipality there's only 5 (five) police-officers covering the second largest (area) county in entire Sweden. They have a hard time keeping up with all the drunkdrivers and domestic violence.
Re:flamebait, sure (Score:3, Informative)
One minor nitpick (Score:3, Informative)