Is there anyone we can write to? Like, put stamps on envelopes and put them in a mailbox? A movie that gets a standing ovation at the end of the 1st showing in Austin, of all places, and it doesn't have US distribution?!?

It's nice to see The One Lad giving interviews, even though he seems pretty much ignored by the ETs of this world. I see he's wearing The One Jacket (the corduroy one?) and has that fuzzy widdle chinny-chopper. He's looking very fine! Charlie Hunnam is a cutie, too! Amazing how much taller he is, though.

Geez. When is the US film industry going to get a friggin' *CLUE*?!? Is Elijah forever doomed to be ignored? :::: scowling ::::

I wonder if Harry Knowles knows who to write to...or if he *is* writing to...

~grumpy

Let's all write to Harry!

Yeah!!!!!lets Get Starting!!!!!!!!!!


Wood

Woah, girls! Down, ladies! Down! Let's not bombard poor Harry! ;) I suspect our considerable wit and talent will be useful writing to someone else.

I just e-mailed him asking if there's anything we can do. Here it is:

****************************
Harry Dahling,

We're wondering, over on a discussion board, if there's anything we can do to
prod a US distributor into picking up Hooligans. We've seen the video clip
from the Austin festival of Elijah saying "Let's get some distribution,
please!". (Now, if you were a hardened movie distributor, could you resist
those big blue eyes?) ;)

Anyway, can we write to anyone? Is there *anything* that would help get The One Lad's movie distributed here?

Of course, Dougie Brimson says that we'll probably have to sit through the movie with our hands over our eyes because of the violence...

I'd also like to say one other thing. There are a lot of comments going around
about Elijah Wood being too "small" to play a violent character. Nonsense.
Cruise and Gibson are fairly short. There's also Dustin Hoffman. Lots of great
actors are not really very tall. And height and build doesn't have a lot to do
with toughness. My grandfather, who was born in 1882 in a rootin' tootin'
coal-mining town in Pennsylvania, was a pugilist in his youth, and he stood maybe 5'2" in his work boots. He was known for showing the "town boys" a thing or two on a Saturday night. My mom's uncles were probably no more than 5'3" or so, and were known as the meanest, toughest men who ever walked that valley.

I'm developing a healthy respect for Elijah Wood's work, past and present, and
am looking forward to covering my eyes during this movie.

Best regards,
...call me ~grumpy
********************************************

~grumpy

Way to go, Grumpy! Do let us know what he says. I'm dying to try to help get this thing into the cinema. :z: :D

Go Grumpy!

Go, ~grumpy! :D You actually referred to EJW as
the One Lad in your letter to "Harry Dahling"! :D :cool: :lol:
I too eagerly await his response; trying to imagine ONE place we could write to that would have the desired effect. :confused:

And btw, the premiere will be in Hollywood on March 28. It happens that I am going to BE in Hollywood on the day!!! YES!! Maybe I can at least see some of the milling around the red carpet. Do you know what theater??

Alyon, don't you have someone connected in the Southland, that could score you actual tickets to the premier??? ;) How :cool: would THAT be??? :z:

From Achilla, regarding "Ash Wednesday":The repetitive, moody theme music still annoyed me though. Can't win em all.
Without a doubt, the MOST irritating film score in the history of filmdom! (And this from the woman who's answer is always "the score? Didn't really notice it" to her husband's inevitable question, "What did you think of the score?")

honey! ::scoots off down the hall to program her Tivo to record ET::

ETA:There are a lot of comments going around about Elijah Wood being too "small" to play a violent character. Nonsense.Cruise and Gibson are fairly short. There's also Dustin Hoffman. Lots of great actors are not really very tall...

Well, there's just plain short, and then there's genuinely small, and Elijah happens to fall into the latter category, like he's miniaturized, runs on transistors, is New! Improved! 33% smaller-small. He's just little all over. Which I guess made Napoleon plenty mean. Just sayin'

So much to talk about here that no one seems to have noticed that Alyon had the 1000th post this time around! (On to x7 :cool: !)

http://www.imagemagician.com/images/tgshaw/off topic/champagne-resized.jpg

Even Bud is excited! (Well, he is... can't you tell? :haha: )

http://www.imagemagician.com/images/tgshaw/off topic/ringtale_lemur_Budcute.jpg


Agreed that all of us writing to Harry wouldn't do much good--it's not as if we have to convince him. But asking him who to write to was a great move, grumpy! (Maybe he can get Robert Rodriguez to help ;) .)

And even Harry's name may not open all doors. It's funny how you can get involved in something and start assuming that everyone else... :o Well, you know what I mean. Harry evidently became an Amazon associate recently (don't know if he has links up at AICN--will have to look). He posted a question on the associates' message board that had me ROTFLMAO... and, you know the feeling you get when you're ROTF about something and everyone else in the room is just sitting there :rolleyes: ? Not only didn't they "get" his humor, but after a few replies I started to realize--hard as it was for me to believe--that these people have no idea who Harry the #@%ing Knowles is! I'm sure he has more "cache" within the movie business than he does among the general population (or among Amazon associates, who I'm discovering tend to be a pretty left-brained bunch :rolleyes: ; not that there's anything wrong with that... ;) )

Yay!! I get the champaigne--and believe me it would be very welcome right about now...so if anyone delivers.... :z:

Honey:
Alyon, don't you have someone connected in the Southland, that could score you actual tickets to the premier??? How would THAT be???

No, alas, Honey, you mis-estimate my connections. While I may on occasion have rubbed shoulders with people who can get into the Oscars or such premieres, I unfortunately do not have the power or intimacy to ask them to pretty please get me into such places...even if I had a real good reason such as yes please I want to see the cannibal actor because I WANT to soooo much :z: . No way.
Alas....no.
I'm telling you, it's a dog eat dog world. Or I mean in Kevin's case, people eating people world. ;)
But I'll let you know if I see anything, for sure. From the fringes.... :k

(Have been in the Sin City casting offices, though. How's that for almost kinda close but really far away from actually getting to SEE the MOVIE!).

No, alas, Honey, you mis-estimate my connections.

Oh. OK. ::subsiding back into my corner of the couch in Detention::

So much to talk about here that no one seems to have noticed that Alyon had the 1000th post this time around! (On to x7 :cool:!)

Um...so...when ya gonna start the new thread, TG, o Beloved Dean of the Faculty, o Fearless Leader? :: picks at the upholstery of the Detention couch::

Can I get up yet? :)

honey!

Faculty members, there is a survey posted on AICN's homepage to vote for which movie at SXSW "peeks your interest." So, scurry on over and cast your vote! (Mariole and Honeyelf, I think you are allowed out of detention for this.)

And you can only vote once. Drat! ;)

C-who's idea was one person, one vote?-4

I'm gonna go ahead and close this thread, and leave it to the first Faculty member to log on to start a new one.:)