BlogNomic: Rise to Fame

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Proposal: Rise to Fame

Passses 19-0, enacted by Angry Grasshopper.

Adminned at 05 Feb 2007 14:52:20 UTC

Repeal the rule “Filmography”, if it exists.

Enact a new rule, “Filmographies”:-

Each actor has a Filmography, which is stored in a wiki page called “Filmographies”. This is a list of the films that each Actor has starred in, the year of that film, and the role that they played in it.

Any film listed in a Filmography must exist on IMDB [www.imdb.com] and a link should be provided.

A role specified for a film may be either:-

“Extra”
“Nth Minor Character” (where “N” is any number, and “Minor Character” is a generic role such as “Hoodlum” or “Fireman” - eg. “4th Zombie”)
A named role that appears in the IMDB credits of the film.

Any Actor may add a new film and role to his Filmography, if they have not already done so in the previous four days, with the following restrictions:-

A role of “Nth Minor Character” may only be added if the Actor has been an Extra in three earlier films.
A named role may only be added if the Actor has been an Nth Minor Character in three earlier films.

(“Earlier films” are those with an earlier year than the film being added.)

If anyone Filmographies exist when this proposal is enacted, they are blanked.

Comments

Clucky: he/him

03-02-2007 23:17:36 UTC

Do we want worry about time frames here? This isn’t the time traveling dynasty. It seems odd that my Filmography could contain roles from old movies. And that it could be out of order.

Kevan: he/him

03-02-2007 23:23:08 UTC

I was reading Chindogu’s original proposal as suggesting a dynasty where actors would look back over their careers, claiming roles in a variety of old films, rather than ten different 2007 releases.

This does allow some weird chronology, that a Buster Keaton extra could go on to be a teen comedy romantic lead seventy years later, but maybe we can penalise that sort of nonsense later on, if we want to…

Josh: Mastermind he/they

03-02-2007 23:23:41 UTC

I don’t think that worrying about chronology is strictly speaking necessary.

Kevan: he/him

03-02-2007 23:25:59 UTC

No reason for the filmography to be “out of order”, though - there’s nothing saying which order films have to be listed in. And as this rule stands, you could claim to be an extra in films from 1950, 1945, 1974 and 1960, then claim to have been Third Cowboy in a 1967 film (but not in a 1957 film), which doesn’t seem a problem.