"Alas, poor Hollywood! I knew it, Horatio: a source of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. And now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it."
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We are face to face with the remarkable fact that Hollywood doesn’t exist anymore. Like so many of our institutions, it’s gone.
But the market for movies and streaming series is starving.
Here in Athens there is robust activity—production companies, studio space, talent, crew, and a 40% cash rebate on everything shot here.
My own circle includes Andreas Tsilifonis, head of Central Athens Film Productions; Anglo-Greek Chiltern Media; and my at-the-ready crew. We can do anything.
Speaking of Hamlet, Flaubert once said “The three
finest things God ever made are Hamlet, Don Giovanni and the sea.”
I can’t entirely give myself to any formula, but I like that one.
And I love Don Giovanni, aka Don Juan, especially in The Trial of Don Juan, in which Amanda
Plummer will play the don, and which we'll make entirely in Athens.
In case of scheduling problems we can go to Charlotte Gainsbourg, Oona Chaplin, Tracy Spiridakos, Ana Alexander, Tilda Swinton, Chiara Mastroianni…
But is there a stronger or a funnier actor than Amanda? Here
she is stealing a scene from Robin Williams, on a first date, and
threatening every
motherfucking one of you.
Tough girl.
Be well, kids. I’m in Greece, you’re not, and those are the
breaks.
O Robertos
Robert MacLean is an independent filmmaker. His The Light Touch is on Amazon Prime, Tubi and Scanbox, and his 7-minute comedy is an out-loud laugh. He is also a novelist, a playwright, a blogger, a YouTuber, a film reviewer, a literary critic, and a stand-up comic poet. Born Toronto, PhD McGill, taught at Canadian universities, too cold, live Greece, Irish citizen. No brains but an intellectual snob.
“We have a duty to be happy.”—Voltaire
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