I'd run away, very fast.
I'm not a movie person. (If I was, I'd be writing film scripts, not novels.)
"High budget" means "managed by a production studio, oversight by accountants, marketing directed by focus group". What do you think a focus group of random cinema-goers picked from a mall multiplex somewhere in the mid-western USA would make of any of my novels? And what changes would the studio then demand?
Just assume the genie is faster.
2. "High budget" means "managed by a production studio, oversight by accountants, marketing directed by focus group".
OK, lets tweak the question. The genie offers you a budget of 100 million US dollars. It doesn't care about profitability. You have the final word on everything related to the movie. It has to be a single movie, though, no longer than 3 hours.
]]>I would say Greece came pretty close.
]]>I guess I'm going with modern media/news makes these areas look more conservative to the rest of the nation but I don't see it. And yes I'm going on scant "boots on the ground" knowledge but I do have some contacts with the hard right wing via marriage and blood lines. They are yelling louder these days due to the ability to do so via cable news and the internet but I see them becoming more and more of a minority in all parts of the country where I touch them.
I have some friends who write a blog on problems with the evangelical church in the US. And they would be considered hard core conservative Christians by most of the folks here. But they are accepting that gay marriage and other "left wing" issues will be come main stream and law in the near future in the entire country.
The hard core right is shrinking and yelling loud as they shrink.
I mean I knew Obama was going to be elected back in August of 12 when a 0.01% told me that Romney was going to win because the voters would obviously not re-elected the idiot who got elected back in 08. Total denial of how the majority of people around them really felt.
]]>Uhm... I think you misread Reddit's majority political orientation.
Look up "Red Pill" and let your eyes glaze over.
]]>Meh, r/ShitRedditSays cancels it out.
But really I judged by the population of large sub-reddits, such as WorldNews, Technology etc.
]]>May not matter (to them) if they succeed, as they are supposed to be doing, in rigging the voter-lists & excluding significant numbers of people from the electoral registers.
Of course, over here, it is alleged that we have the opposite problem in one or two areas .....
]]>The idea of Basic Income is extremely popular on Reddit. Universal healthcare, ditto. War on Drugs and War on Terror are extremely unpopular. Oil companies are extremely popular.
]]>Is it such a good idea, or not? Um. [ I've been reading R L Fox's history of classical Rome, which is really, really nasty - the brutality of internal politics in Rome was vile. The corn dole was uses as a weapon, usually by "populist" leaders, but not always - the proto-fascist Sulla also did this. ]
]]>The British believed that Loyalism was strongest in the South. Whether that was true or not, they believed it and then perversely started to try freeing slaves to fight for them as well.
Large numbers of Northern slaves were manumitted by service in the Colonial Army. Vermont became a quasi-state at the time and started completely free. A small majority of Americans began turning away from slavery as a practice consistent with modern civilization as well as democracy at about the same time and pace as their British counterparts. (British and American abolitionists continued to be racists; they just thought slavery was a) barbaric in itself and b) encouraged contact with "lower" races.)
It is depressing (or encouraging, take your pick) how close so many of the votes on allowing slavery were, both on the state and national level. It often came down to one man. Someone above said that oil corrupts; well, it's got nothing on slavery. As soon as pro-slavery interests got a state on their side, the money involved made it almost impossible to ever go back.
As to British idealism, small numbers of rebel slaves were given to Loyalists by HMG in gratitude for their service, but it was not a common practice. To put it in context, the British were still enslaving or conscripting white people at the time. After the Seven Years War, French Canadians were sold down south. Polish supporters of the Haitian Revolution who were picked up by the British were conscripted into naval service. And so on.
The British continued heavy direct and indirect investment in American slave-holding industries, as well as in other places. They also supported America remaining a resource colony dominated by the South as opposed to an industrial rival led by the North.
In short, merchants in Rhode Island did not rebel in order to keep slaves they barely even bothered having. The slavery that profited them took place in the West Indies after all.
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