A sign of the times

Unbelievable!

Why are we telling the world our creative film industry are just wanna be copy cats of Hollywood?

Even the film industry think its a joke. Veteran Wellington film director Geoff Murphy could barely stop laughing. Adding “”I think it’s f^@k!ng stupid. It is copying a foreign, bull$#*t glamour idea and it’s the pits of what people can aspire to.”

A clear number one??? How can this be? Perhaps they mean in the WIAL marketing team? Over 15,000 people already oppose this (see http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=354085372690&v=wall and http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wellingtonians-Against-the-Wellywood-Sign/186318884753869)

Feedback on the WIAL’s own facebook page for other options (a weta, a windpowered projector, etc) clearly out numbered any support for WIAL’s wellywood sign.

But in all honesty, who really expected them to listen to the public.

I pity their marketing people.

It must be pretty embarrassing to have their total creative capacity (in the form of this sign) on show to the world.

Especially when it appears Wellington’s creatives are doing little more than following Mosgiels lead with another Hollywood look-a-like sign (yawn).

I think WIAL’s marketing people have just become the laughing stock of the creative industry.

So much for being the creative capital?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5035147/Wellywood-sign-to-go-ahead, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mosgielsign.jpg, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10727163, http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5036728/Wellywood-sign-a-try-hard-says-Mallard