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sledhaulingmedic said:
Actually, it has nothing to do with the attitude of the ski areas. Vt. doesn't receive enough sun to encourage filming. In fact, it ranks 49th in the states for the amount of sunlight per year. N.H. isn't much better. It just costs too much to keep a film crew sitting around and waiting for a sunny day. Boston has a substantial movie industriy as the public wants to see Boston on film. The Farrelly Brothers film in R.I. and have made a good niche for themselves so they can afford it. Otherwise, if you are into making ski movies move to Costa Mesa and live with Warren Miller.riverc0il said:
I read that post and the article. All I can see is that one company paid the film company 50K, not that they were charging that much. Why did Warren Miller start in SUN Valley? I can't verify your opinion that there a lot of other good ski films about New England as I don't get excited about ski movies at all and would rather watch something else. So I'm not going to try and verify your claim. >>"It costs a lot of money … to shoot in these exotic locations," said Perkins Miller, a Warren Miller Entertainment executive producer who is not related to Warren Miller. "But listen, we are not making a commercial. It's an inspired feature film. Location incentives are common in the film industry." It does cost them a lot of money to film in Vt. They have to bring in equipment which is much more available in California than New England. Then they have to support their experts, both the film crew and the skiers. Then they sit idle due to the weather. Check out the full version DVD of >>Thelma and Louise<< and listen to the Director's comments on keeping his movies in their budgets. On top of that there is less exciting terrain here than in the American West. These sport films I also find rather shallow as far as movies go. They try and impress the viewer with various high-risk manouevers, successful or not. Whatever story line they take has to be rather thin. No drama at all. There are people in the ski industry who don't like the way they glamourize these high risk ways of skiing, too. They aren't as much inspiring as daring and dangerous. The best sport movies are biographical IMHO There's a good short about the Ethiopian runner who won the 10K gold medal in Atlanta. I don't think athletics really give one enough to make a feature length movie, either. It's very rare that you see any of these films merit an academy or festival award.bvibert said:
