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[Hans Blaster]

"Some people call me a space cowboy"

Woops, wrong Steve Miller.

This one is the "gangster of hate".

 

[Hans Blaster]

Huh, guess I should rewatch it.

Either way, editing for China is very much a thing.

I found an article in a military magazine:

Who Exactly Was The Bad Guy In ‘Top Gun’?

Apparently the original script had the "bad guys" as N. Korea. The tail insignia looks like China (Yellow circle around star), but the location is very clearly the Indian Ocean.

The intentionality of keeping the villain an amorphous combination of three countries is almost ingeniously done by combining impossible geography, mismatched markings, and fictional aircraft.​

But my favorite line was this one about F14s facing the originally script MiG-21s:

Interestingly enough, F-14s did engage MiG-21s in air-to-air engagements — but they were Iranian F-14’s squaring off against Iraqi MiG-21’s.​

This brings us to a rather weird situation from 1986, that the nations around the Indian Ocean with the most MiGs were Iraq and India which were nominally friendly to the US, while their greatest rivals (Iran and Pakistan) both flew American fighters.

 

[Say it aint so]

Someone competent has entered the chat​

Newsom Signals He’s Willing to Work With Trump on $7.5B Federal Tax Credit for U.S. Entertainment Industry​

The governor of California has proposed a bold first-of-its-kind initiative after Trump called for a 100 percent tariff on non-U.S. made movies.

California lawmakers are currently aiming to increase the cap on its production [state] tax credit program from $330 million to $750 million a year, vastly boosting the credit to 35 percent while expanding the category of productions that qualify to include shorter TV shows, animated titles and certain types of unscripted projects.

“America continues to be a film powerhouse, and California is all in to bring more production here,” Newsom said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “Building on our successful state program, we’re eager to partner with the Trump administration to further strengthen domestic production and Make America Film Again.”

That was back in October 2024.

 

[Say it aint so]

Just goes to show you.
When every problem looks like a nail, and the only tool in your tool box is the hammer called tariffs, then your foreman is an idiot.

 

[essentialsaltes]

That was back in October 2024.

The proposed expansion of the state credit, yes. Newsom is suggesting a similar program for federal taxes.

 

[chevyontheriver]

How does a 100% tariff on foreign-made films protect national security?

How is a tariff censorship?

 

[Pommer]

How does a 100% tariff on foreign-made films protect national security?

No, this one is to raise revenue.

 

[Say it aint so]

What country are most US movies made?
Is it still not the US itself?

 

[Bradskii]

California lawmakers are currently aiming to increase the cap on its production [state] tax credit program from $330 million to $750 million a year, vastly boosting the credit to 35 percent...

Australia offers a 30% tax rebate for fims made here. There's a Fox Studios near me and a lot of fims are made there. I was at the gym this morning and across the way outside Fox they were setting up huge blue screens with a mock up of a roof for some film (maybe Apex with Charlize Theron?). It's a money spinner.

I'll suggest that Trump was just shooting his mouth off earlier. And films made 'in foreign lands'? Why not 'overseas'? He sounds like an 18th century Lord of the manor. 'We shouldn't put up with all those brown people in foreign lands, by gad'.

 

[loveofourlord]

What country are most US movies made?
Is it still not the US itself?

I can't find numbers, but I would bet, it's canada, particularly toronto and BC, it's like a whers waldo any time I watch a US movie/show and see something canadian, was watching tv show psych other day, set in LA I think it was, and they didn't even TRY to hide the, "BC ferries." on the side of a ferry.

 

[Laodicean60]

I understand Trump's desire to have more movies made in America, and maybe states can offer more incentives for the production. Couple I remember here in NM were Smokey and the Bandit and Transformers, I know there are others. But in our tribalness, this is a big deal lol, but if there is another Bond movie, I'm sure we will use a set in the UK. Unless AI replaces everything.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

I can't find numbers, but I would bet, it's canada, particularly toronto and BC, it's like a whers waldo any time I watch a US movie/show and see something canadian, was watching tv show psych other day, set in LA I think it was, and they didn't even TRY to hide the, "BC ferries." on the side of a ferry.

Most of the series "The X Files" was filmed in BC, they even painted a rock quarry red to simulate Arizona. Even the movie "First Blood" was filmed in Hope, BC in the early 1980s. It's nothing new. "Star Wars" a uniquely American blockbuster. Filmed in Tunisia, The United Kingdom, The United States, Guatemala and possibly more.

 

[durangodawood]

"Some people call me a space cowboy"

Woops, wrong Steve Miller.

This one does not speak of the pompitous of love.

 

[durangodawood]

I understand Trump's desire to have more movies made in America, and maybe states can offer more incentives for the production. Couple I remember here in NM were Smokey and the Bandit and Transformers, I know there are others. But in our tribalness, this is a big deal lol, but if there is another Bond movie, I'm sure we will use a set in the UK. Unless AI replaces everything.

The new Bond movie will visit various exotic locations like Oklahoma City and Bangor Maine.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

The new Bond movie will visit various exotic locations like Oklahoma City and Bangor Maine.

Didn't think of that, so does the tariff include outer space? No more space station fights? I don't know if I could survive not seeing the remake of "Moonraker"

 

[Desk trauma]

The new Bond movie will visit various exotic locations like Oklahoma City and Bangor Maine.

I can’t wait for the gambling scene in a glamorous casino outside Branson Missouri.

 

[durangodawood]

Didn't think of that, so does the tariff include outer space? No more space station fights? I don't know if I could survive not seeing the remake of "Moonraker"

They could film it on sets, like they did with the original "moon landing".

 

[Laodicean60]

The new Bond movie will visit various exotic locations like Oklahoma City and Bangor Maine.

It would be good for those two states, wouldn't it, with the help of AI.

 

[iluvatar5150]

The new Bond movie will visit various exotic locations like Oklahoma City and Bangor Maine.

tbh, I'm surprised that "Bangor Maine" hasn't already been used as the name of one of his love interests.

 

[durangodawood]

I can’t wait for the gambling scene in a glamorous casino outside Branson Missouri.

Where he orders a White Claw, neither shaken nor stirred.