So, Lawrence of Arabia walks into a gay bar in the Nefud Desert with a paraplegic, a disadvantaged youth, an angry Women’s Studies student, a quadroon, a tranny…
Movie companies have been told they must meet new targets for ethnic minority, gay and female characters on screen to be eligible for future funding from the British Film Institute. The BFI, Britain’s largest public film fund, announced a “Three Ticks” scheme to ensure diversity in films and behind the scenes as it set out new rules for funding.
Cheezy crisps on a bike..
On screen, at least one lead character must be “positively reflecting diversity”, with the story more likely to receive funding if it “explicitly and predominantly explores issues of identity relating to ethnicity or national origins, a specific focus on women, people with disabilities, sexual identity, age and people from a socially disadvantaged background”.
Good. Because there aren’t nearly enough tiresome, pc-propaganda lectures disguised as films.
First they came for the manufacturing sector but I didn’t make my living there so I didn’t care.
Then they came for the Christians but I wasn’t very religious so I didn’t care.
Then they came for the people who professed fiscal and moral responsibility but I had only paid lip service to these principles so I didn’t care
Sing along folks, you all know the words.
And for you filmmakers sit down and shut up. You made your bed.
Product placement, for imbeciles.
When things are substandard, the gov’t forces you to buy them.
When people that are purple with yellow spots cannot pass a standardized test for the fire department, the government forces changes to the exams, so people that are purple with yellow spots can be firemen too.
Just don’t complain when your fire department takes extra time to arrive at your house.
Just wait, soon this idea of rewarding mediocracy will arrive at the awards ceremonies too. You didn’t think they’d force this upon you, and not reward themselves for it… did you?
Then they’ll tell you, that “4 Dysfunctional Whatever’s” was the greatest movie this year.
Will the leading gay character need to be muslim too? If not, why not?
Good Lord.. When is this crap going to hit the wall?.. I’m sure they will be sales champs. Limp-wristed, smiley-faced, pablum puking, BBC/CBC loving, Lispy Trudeau-speaking,funny-walking,no-fun . lockstep, PC, POS, films..
2014 – ‘On screen, at least one lead character must be “positively reflecting diversity”‘
Life Follows Art:
1994 – ‘Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWKeNNJdUI8
…to be eligible for future funding from the British Film Institute…, Britain’s largest public film fund,…
Nobody is forcing film makers to produce anything they don’t want to, UNLESS they want taxpayer money for it; only then must it reflect the diversity of the taxpayer base funding it.
What’s wrong with that. Seems like user pay to me.
They can get private funding for anything else they want to do.
Did anyone watch the premiere of Amazing Race Canada last week? The casting is as if they had a diversity checklist which they probably did.
This is my part!!! I can play a disabled, old gay, women, trans-sexual Muslim.
I can also get a bad haircut if the role requires it.
How many taxpayers wonder why there aren’t any gender-queer biracial Muslims in wheelchairs in Shakespearean films?
Does anybody watch that crap? Really? To start with, these Canadian variations of original shows seem to ALWAYS be first rate garbage. Just don’t watch it, ever.
“… only then must it reflect the diversity of the taxpayer base funding it.
What’s wrong with that.”
What is wrong with it, and it should be obvious to anyone who is not a collectivist cupid stunt, is that people are individuals and are not arbitrarily defined by some characteristics deemed important and distinct by an apparatchik parasite in charge of dividing the funds looted from taxpayers.
No doubt someone will produce a version of Othello that meets your specific interests.
I doubt it.
This is a handful of people pushing an agenda and deciding how other people’s money is doled out… as usual!
The actual issue is the gov’t funding of ‘films’ to begin with.
These ‘requirements’ are but a symptom.
“a handful of people pushing an agenda and deciding how other people’s money is doled out… as usual!”
What government doesn’t operate like that? So?
Well, as long as YOU’RE cool with it…
Don’t argue with the chronically stupid.
Everyone complains how their tax dollars are spent… just like they complain about the weather. So what are you going to do about how the Brits spend their taxes? Maybe it doesn’t matter; someone will complain, regardless…
Never argue with an idiot; they will always try to drag it down to their level.
Nothing matters with you, does it, north of 60?
Why waste your time here?
I’ll remember this the next time you whine about something.
Britain is becoming more like the old Soviet Union everyday. Boy, will the apparatchiks get a big surprise someday when the caliphate Sharia bunch reverse all this PC crap.
The inevitable result of government “support” of the arts is the destruction of the arts.
Ditto for science, which is a lot scarier.
Trying to “put words in someone’s mouth” is rude.
Don’t you have something better to do with your mind, besides personally insulting people on public forums?
You have a nice day now…
“So what are you going to do about how the Brits spend their taxes?”
In case anyone is wondering the above line is a perfect example of how idiots argue.
I wonder what they will do with animal films like ‘Born Free’. I guess that title will have to be changed, for starters.
It doesn’t really matter, no-one watches BFI funded films anyway
Isn’t it an epic event when a feature film is actually made in the UK? A god way to keep a non-existent film industry down. The rest they produce is that BBC gag me stuff. More markets for American films.
Ok, #PCRemakes is the hashtag.
Mine: “The Good, The Bad and The FABULOUS!”
“It doesn’t really matter, no-one watches BFI funded films anyway”
Wasting coerced public money “doesn’t really matter”?
The BIFFY is certainly aptly named, n’est pas?
Actually, publicly funded BFI supported films are quite popular at publicly subsidized “film festivals” where industry insiders, critics and film bores, and various camp followers gather to eat free hors d’ oeuvres and swig free approved wines. We should resolve to check to see if a film has received BFI support and avoid it like the plague.
Try re-reading your post.
In fact, try re-reading half of anything you’ve written here.
This Ron Paul imitation you’re doing is pretty stale and doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Can you tell me how many taxpayers think this is a brilliant idea or is it as I said, a handful of people pushing an agenda?
You probably won’t bother.
IKEA wins!
“…only then must it reflect the diversity of the taxpayer base funding it. What’s wrong with that.”
So, is that how we should select our armies?
Just look at where the teams come from: Ontario 4.5, Quebec & BC 2 each, Nova Scotia & Manitoba 1 each, Alberta 0.5. And no First Nations.