>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
'bf: non-right-to-work-state'
Your rhetoric is adorable.


It's tough trying to make a film where the unions exclude the little guy. Hell, they exclude art. The days of the unions being for the worker are a myth. They collude with Los Angeles city to make big money.

Even Leftist filmmakers find it unbearable, DFT. Stop politicizing every comment I make. Take German filmmaker Michael Haneke (Funny Games, 1997); not an anti-unionist and certainly not a right-winger. In this article in LA Weekly he passionately illuminates the difficulty of shooting in LA with the unions:

"You need five people for every job. If I want to move a pencil from here to there, then I have to tell this to my assistant, and he tells his assistant; I can’t just carry it myself. We were filming for eight and a half weeks, which wasn’t even enough time. But in Austria, we filmed the whole thing in six weeks.

“To work within this huge apparatus, you need a lot of money and a lot of time. If you’re doing a huge studio production with a $100 million budget, it’s great — you get 30 seconds of footage a day, and that’s fine. But if you want to get three minutes a day, it’s very paralyzing.”

You'd understand if you ever spent a day in your life.