North Carolina State Senator Wants Government To Review Movie Scripts Prior To Filming
A State Senator from North Carolina has heard about the controversial new Dakota Fanning flick Hounddog on the news, and he's so upset about it he wants the government to step in.
Phil "Tard" Berger, a Republican state senator from Rockingham, wants the government to review all movie scripts from films made in North Carolina prior to filming. The state gives an incentive to filmmakers to get them to film in the state. That incentive can be as much as 15% of production costs.
Berger's logic is that state taxpayers are paying for these movies to be made through this incentive. What he's completely ignorant of is the fact that the reason that incentive exists is because a films production will bring in much more revenue to the state. In other words, 40% of the films production costs might go to local businesses and the state tax pool, and the 15% incentive is essentially just a rebate on some of that money. That's why they call it an incentive. Taxpayers are not paying for these movies.
Berger fails to understand how movies are made when he comes up with some idiotic legislation like this. Should someone tell him that movie scripts are not set in stone, and will usually see dozens, if not hundreds of changes during production.
I'm always amazed at how ignorant elected officials can be. The North Carolinians who voted to give this man in the state senate should be ashamed. He does not understand basic economics, he wants to define what is obscene by his own standards, and he even admits that he his opinion of the new Dakota Fanning movie, which is only airing at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah at this time, was formed by what he read about it. I'm sure Newsmax and the Aryan Daily are his main news sources.
What's really strange about this whole story is that someone in North Carolina thinks the state is relevant to the film industry. If North Carolina drifted off into the Atlantic Ocean tomorrow, Hollywood would barely notice. They might make a movie about it, but it would probably suck.
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Phil "Tard" Berger, a Republican state senator from Rockingham, wants the government to review all movie scripts from films made in North Carolina prior to filming. The state gives an incentive to filmmakers to get them to film in the state. That incentive can be as much as 15% of production costs.
Berger's logic is that state taxpayers are paying for these movies to be made through this incentive. What he's completely ignorant of is the fact that the reason that incentive exists is because a films production will bring in much more revenue to the state. In other words, 40% of the films production costs might go to local businesses and the state tax pool, and the 15% incentive is essentially just a rebate on some of that money. That's why they call it an incentive. Taxpayers are not paying for these movies.
Berger fails to understand how movies are made when he comes up with some idiotic legislation like this. Should someone tell him that movie scripts are not set in stone, and will usually see dozens, if not hundreds of changes during production.
I'm always amazed at how ignorant elected officials can be. The North Carolinians who voted to give this man in the state senate should be ashamed. He does not understand basic economics, he wants to define what is obscene by his own standards, and he even admits that he his opinion of the new Dakota Fanning movie, which is only airing at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah at this time, was formed by what he read about it. I'm sure Newsmax and the Aryan Daily are his main news sources.
What's really strange about this whole story is that someone in North Carolina thinks the state is relevant to the film industry. If North Carolina drifted off into the Atlantic Ocean tomorrow, Hollywood would barely notice. They might make a movie about it, but it would probably suck.
Technorati Tags: politics, republican, north, carolina