{"id":1170,"date":"2010-01-02T01:56:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T05:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2010-01-02T01:56:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T05:56:52","slug":"neil-blomkamp-will-you-marry-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2010\/neil-blomkamp-will-you-marry-me","title":{"rendered":"Neil Blomkamp, Will You Marry Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m not sure why I avoid reading io9. I think it’s because I’m so frequently disappointed by science fiction media properties. But I keep winding up there anyway, in no small part because Judd Karlman sends me a link to the site daily, and it’s always something interesting.<\/p>\n

Well, he didn’t send me this interview with Neill Blomkamp<\/a>, the director of District 9 and several really excellent SF shorts. So there, Judd.<\/p>\n

In it, Neill talks about the double-edged sword of large budgets.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with the L.A. Times<\/em>, Blomkamp made it quite clear that he wants nothing to do with $100 million budgets and major studio releases. The reason for this, he explains, is that he wants to be able to tell his own stories in his own way, and that just isn’t possible when such massive amounts of money are involved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But that’s just the beginning of the good stuff.<\/p>\n

If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn’t come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that’s where the stimuli and influence comes from. But go back and look at something like [Joe Haldeman<\/a>‘s 1974 novel] “The Forever War<\/a>” \u2013 that is very much rooted in his experience in Vietnam, that’s where the stimulation comes from.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He even addresses my problems with District 9.<\/p>\n

Neill Blomkamp, will you make me Mrs. Blomkamp?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure why I avoid reading io9. I think it’s because I’m so frequently disappointed by science fiction media properties. But I keep winding up there anyway, in no small part because Judd Karlman sends me a link to the site daily, and it’s always something interesting. Well, he didn’t send me this interview … Continue reading “Neil Blomkamp, Will You Marry Me?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}