For [Peter] Jackson, brown — indigenous — is a synecdoche for evil. That people now want to subject Wellington — my home town — to Jackson’s malign, intensely alienated and Northern-Hemisphere imaginary with the Wellywood moniker is hard to stomach.
March 15, 2010
Pseuds Corner
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Don’t be a dick, Danyl.
Comment by Mausie — March 15, 2010 @ 10:42 am
Oh, thanks – now I get to live with the knowledge that finding the Wellywood concept a shit one puts me in the same camp as this guy…
Comment by Psycho Milt — March 15, 2010 @ 10:56 am
Wot Mausie said
Comment by ScottY — March 15, 2010 @ 11:11 am
Some people can’t enjoy the simple things in life, like child fantasy books or the idiocy of wellington airport without being thrown into paroxysms of analysis.
Comment by Kate — March 15, 2010 @ 11:18 am
Lord of the Rings is kind of racist. This is a new and novel point of view.
Comment by JD — March 15, 2010 @ 11:43 am
Personally I’m more worried about Tolkien/Jackson’s radical feminism – all the bad guys live in tall, pointy towers while the good hobbits and men live in holes carved out of the side of hills and mountains.
Comment by gazzaj — March 15, 2010 @ 11:51 am
gazzaj, you’ve just made my day.
Comment by Ataahua — March 15, 2010 @ 11:54 am
Don’t be a dick, Danyl.
Do you tell the rain not to fall or the sun not to shine?
Comment by danylmc — March 15, 2010 @ 11:56 am
And while we are piling on Sir Peter Jackson, Return of the King sucked.
Wonder what the PA commenter thought of ‘District 9′, oh wait I still won’t care.
Comment by andy (the other one) — March 15, 2010 @ 12:00 pm
Actually Paul Litterick has alluded to more or less the same thing on the fundy post. http://fundypost.blogspot.com/2010/01/not-clever-and-not-funny.html
Comment by Tom Semmens — March 15, 2010 @ 12:26 pm
Are you secretly trying to get us to support the Wellywood sign?
Personally being an Aucklander I am all for it, mainly so I can laugh at Wellington for once, rather than crying at the farce of Auckland’s decision making processes, like spending a couple of hundred million on a stadium that gets used 20 odd times a year and has to be shut by some ridiculous hour.
Comment by Jeff Rosie — March 15, 2010 @ 12:27 pm
Do you tell the rain not to fall or the sun not to shine?
Pretty much. Not like all the time, but doesn’t everyone?
Comment by Graeme Edgeler — March 15, 2010 @ 12:33 pm
I’m looking forward to Jackson’s coverage of the ACT Party rallies in support of their Auckland dictatorship.
synecdoche is a bit of a problem in NZ politics these days- it gets to be relegated to hysteria’s willing helper.
Comment by Neil — March 15, 2010 @ 1:03 pm
Wellywood sign generator:
http://wellywood.skullandbones.co.nz/
My fav from the Gallery “Hataitai Sucks”
Comment by Clunking Fist — March 15, 2010 @ 1:53 pm
“synecdoche . . .”
There was a heated debate on how to pronounce this word at my new years eve barbeque, with various people waving their iPhones and blackberries around and bickering about the authority of wikipedias pronunciation guide. Good times.
Comment by danylmc — March 15, 2010 @ 1:57 pm
Well, it took a month for Save RNZ to reach 20,000, but just a few days to get 13,000 to express horror at the Wellywood sign.
Personally I’m quite happy with it.. just put a Beehive at the front.
JC
Comment by JC — March 15, 2010 @ 2:07 pm
“There was a heated debate on how to pronounce this word at my new years eve barbeque”
must be a Wellington thing
Comment by Neil — March 15, 2010 @ 2:29 pm
totally representative of the wienies that live at Public Address
Comment by expat — March 15, 2010 @ 2:40 pm
Comment by Neil — March 15, 2010 @ 2:50 pm
Hey, I can often be found at Public Address, but would never be caught dead using a word like that. I’d probably use something people know, like “symbol” or “stereotype”. I don’t get good marks for style, but at least I get to say what *I* mean.
Comment by Ben Wilson — March 15, 2010 @ 3:22 pm
people waving their iPhones and blackberries
I bet they we’re all wearing designer jeans and ironic hipster t-shirts too…
Comment by Phil — March 15, 2010 @ 4:30 pm
Expat – and the comments at kiwiblog make better reading?
I’m curious, Danyl – what’s with the seeming ongoing hate-on of PA? Sure, its a little self-satisfied and middle class, but so am I and so are you.
Comment by Eddie C — March 15, 2010 @ 4:30 pm
Come on Eddie C, PA is a bunch of middle class, bone carving wearing, white male penis wielding oppressors of minorities who feel the need to genuflect and apologise on behalf of all New Zealanders for our cultural crimes a.k.a pseuds.
I’m with Danyl on this although if it was a scale thing he would be fairly moderate (like Mike Moore) while I would be like Helen Clark (rabid).
LOL, I don’t understand some the comments on Kiwiblog, or PA, or DimPost as I’m just too thick.
Comment by expat — March 15, 2010 @ 5:10 pm
I’m curious, Danyl – what’s with the seeming ongoing hate-on of PA?
I really like some of their bloggers, I just think the comments are hilarious. And lots of people make fun of the Kiwiblog comments – especially the PAS community. So I think it’s worth pointing out that their own conversation is often just as daft.
Comment by danylmc — March 15, 2010 @ 5:51 pm
>So I think it’s worth pointing out that their own conversation is often just as daft.
It misses your loyal opposition.
Comment by Ben Wilson — March 15, 2010 @ 6:20 pm
You really think so, Danyl? Seems like lazy equivalence to me.
When’s the last time you saw someone on PA suggest, seriously, that faggots should be killed? Overly academic, jargonistic cultural politics sounds ridiculous, but it isn’t exactly hateful.
(and yes, your deflating in the actual comment threads is missed).
Comment by Eddie C — March 15, 2010 @ 6:39 pm
“When’s the last time you saw someone on PA suggest, seriously, that faggots should be killed?”
Well, not faggots, obviously.
Comment by Clunking Fist — March 15, 2010 @ 7:00 pm
When’s the last time you saw someone on PA suggest, seriously, that faggots should be killed?
When’s the last time you saw someone on Kiwiblog suggest that the Wellywood sign symbolised ethnic cleansing? Swings and roundabouts . . .
Comment by danylmc — March 15, 2010 @ 7:04 pm
Long time reader, first time poster etc…
The comments on this thread are hilarious. Comments on PAS and Kiwiblog are going to be a bit more extreme from the blogs themselves; that’s natural. Pseuds Corner at one, talkback radio on the other etc.
And I expect most people have their “favourites”
Comment by Leg Break — March 15, 2010 @ 7:11 pm
(first timer caller indeed more like long time pseud)
Comment by DrNo — March 15, 2010 @ 7:25 pm
Lordy.
I don’t think you’re a dick, Danyl. Work away, as the Irish say.
It’s funnier because you’ve taken it out of context and ignored the comments before and after (including Caleb’s good-humoured response to your post) but I’d be the last to take the moral high ground on quoting for laughs.
Besides, “synecdoche” looks like “douche”, and that’s funny right off the bat.
All our cultural threads at the moment seem to converge on arguments about Avatar lately: eye-popping eco space western or crime against culture? it’s like the new copyright. But the arguments are quite enjoyable.
I’d naturally debate your Kiwiblog comparison. Caleb freely granted that he was having a bit of a lash on a dull afternoon in Milton Keynes, and responded to you with a nice note of self-deprecating humour. I don’t think you’d get that from Redbaiter.
Comment by Russell Brown — March 15, 2010 @ 10:32 pm
I’d naturally debate your Kiwiblog comparison. Caleb freely granted that he was having a bit of a lash on a dull afternoon in Milton Keynes, and responded to you with a nice note of self-deprecating humour. I don’t think you’d get that from Redbaiter.
If there really is a PAS equivalent to Kiwiblog’s Thing in the Basement, it ain’t the mild-mannered Caleb.
Comment by joew — March 15, 2010 @ 10:59 pm