Snakes on a m'f'ing plane!

[matgb]

Via tyrell this in the Guardian:

The Snakes On A Plane phenomenon seems to have originated with an August 2005 post ... by screenwriter Josh Friedman. Friedman, was approached to do some rewrite work on a new Samuel L Jackson vehicle burdened with the working title Snakes On A Plane ... Friedman eventually turned down the gig when it emerged that the producers, feeling ... that Snakes On A Plane was touch daft, were considering changing the title to the much more dignified, but much less amusing, Pacific Air Flight 121.

The title was apparently changed back at the insistence of the star. "I got on the set one day and heard they changed it," Jackson told USA Today in April 2006, "and I said, 'What are you doing here? It's not Gone With The Wind. It's not On The Waterfront. It's Snakes On A Plane." Jackson clearly has, along with a perhaps over-active sense of the absurd, a keen understanding of what his fans were expecting. By that stage, Snakes On A Plane had become one of those self-perpetuating internet phenomena - also known as memes - whereby the exponential communications possibilities of the web turn someone or something which would normally struggle for wider attention into a household name ... [the studio] also did five days of additional shooting. This, so legend already has it, was not merely to amp up the film's violence quotient to acquire an R rating, but to insert a line of Samuel L Jackson dialogue cribbed from a satirical online trailer created by a clearly underemployed fan: "I want these motherfucking snakes off this motherfucking plane!"

It's going to be so bad it's good? Or worse, just bad? Can Samuel L Jackson's persona rescue the cheesiest idea for a movie ever? Meh, I probably won't bother.

Told the boss I wanted to make this my last summer in my current job today. I'd be happy to stay with the company (if they pay me some more), but not in my current role; while I enjoy it, the exhaustion is getting to me and, if we include the time I did it as a summer job, this'll be my 5th summer in the same department. Sure, I'm in charge now, and things seem to be going well, but it's taken it out of me. So, effectively, I'll definately be changing something in my life. Deputy is pregnant (that's why she was off ill), and the new seasonal guy is good, and due to finish just before her maternity starts, with any luck we can keep him on, so a nice transition can happen.

Still exhausted, still recovering from that bloody cold; lots of other people have had it, it's taken them ages to shift it as well. Als, stupidly volunteered to help with the arrivals tomorrow. Stupid.

Comments

Job

[paulatpingu.livejournal.com]

So is there a role at the current place that you have your eye on, or another area which you'd be able to move in to? Or is this basically you saying you wont be there next year unless they pull something pretty spectacular out of the hat?

I guess that still gives you the best part of a year to sort something else out though, so it's plenty of notice - maybe they could create a new job for you?

Re: Job

[matgb]

The new IT system we're installing in September to go live for bookings next April will create a massive staffinf reorganisation anyway, so it's possible there'll be a new role that could be made. But I just can't see me doing this for much longer; I do enjoy it, but it's so draining; need a new challenge.

But mostly, better to tell him I'm not going to continue now, than to say so at the end of the summer, if things go wrong next 6 weeks, he knows it's not motivated by that, but something I was planning anyway.