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beckyh2112) wrote2011-05-19 08:11 am
beckyh2112) wrote2011-05-19 08:11 am
Help Me, Internets!
All right, I've got a fic I'm planning to write set at a film festival. I have never been to a film festival in my life. Anyone who has, can you share what the experience is like?
Also, anyone who has been to Finland (or, more specifically, Helsinki), can you talk to me about what sort of food and drink you could typically find there? What the average weather is like in September? What the people are like? Anything at all?
Also, anyone who has been to Finland (or, more specifically, Helsinki), can you talk to me about what sort of food and drink you could typically find there? What the average weather is like in September? What the people are like? Anything at all?
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In general: too many people, too many people who think they are important who totally are IN YOUR WAY, lots of scrambling for last minute tickets, shit that always goes wrong, too many venues that are really not designed for film, so weird sight-lines at screenings and uncomfortable chairs (I'm looking at you, New York Film Festival, yes I am).
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This is quite helpful, though thank goodness I am writing in a Marvel universe. For some reason, writing comics fandoms makes me feel better about faking up things than if I were writing something more faithful in its depiction of the real world.
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Well, there are of course McDonalds, and a Finnish versio of it named Hesburger. Different fast food joints etc. What kind of food you are meaning?
There are some cafes, but very little. Teraces aren't anymore open at september, so everything is inside. People generally drink coffee, most of the people who drink tea are young. Older people drink coffee. Finnish people are one of the biggest coffee consumers in the world if you notice the part that here lives only 5,2 million people.
Weather is usually about 12-15 degrees, (celsius) not particularly rainy or sunny, but getting cooler.
People are usually very not talkative. You don't greet strange people or smile at them when you walk past. Everyone is pretty much on their own thoughts. But it's also that if someone asks How are you? They really want to know it. Some people say that Finns are honest and tend to keep their words.
Please just ask and I shall answer! I love to talk about Finland... Xb
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I'm specifically thinking of the kinds of foods you'd get in the neighborhoods of any of these theaters (http://www.hiff.fi/lang-en/theatres) and/or someplace Tony Stark would take a totally-not-a-date.
Hmm, about the coffee. Would it be considered extremely unusual if someone prefers espresso? i.e. what's considered typical in terms of types of coffee, and let me tell you, this is a hard question to phrase in my head 'cause I don't drink either coffee or tea.
That detail about the way people act == SO HELPFUL.
Feel free to talk to me more about Helsinki! Hm, what kind of transportation is typical for the city? Public, private?
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Bio rex is at the Helsinki's 'big street' mannerheiminkatu, (Mannerheim's street literally) and around it are very different restaurants, but nothing immediatly. There are altough cafe's.
Maxim is at the more expensive part of the Helsinki centre, so I don't know much about it. Prizes too big for student's budget. ^^' But there is this famous Finnish cafe names Fazer's cafe. Fazer is a brand that makes chocolate and finnish candy, and it's legendary. (nothing is as good as Fazer's milk chocolate... ahhh... XDD)That cafe is a great place.
Espresso you can pretty much ask and get in restaurant's and cafe's, but 'normal people' mostly drink ordinary coffee or strong double espresso. ^^' And you generally get it form cafe's, not many make it at their home. it has gotten strong foothold though young adults, older people drink ordinary coffee.
No one uses private. Seriously. No one bothers. We have trams, busses and metro. The public tranportation really works. Only iof you have to carry some sort of big thing with you (and I mean humongous and heavy) people might take their own car, but very few use it because public tranportation is so good. Of course if you come somewhere farther away, you might have to use your own car, but there aren't that many parking spaces in the centre of Helsinki either.
Sorry that this is so late! ANd please, if you have more questions, ask!
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Finnish mythology ISN'T PART OF THE NORSE MYTHOLOGY. We have our own old deities andwe do not have Edda, but Kalevala. For example, my knowledge about Norse mythology is vague at the best. I know the main gods and the most famous adventures they had, but general population probably won't.
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-very crowded, visitors trying to sneak in drinks and making a big scene when that's not allowed
- visitors seeing over 10 movies a day
- people showing up at the wrong cinema because they didn't know it moved 3 years ago
- The film needs to be carried in from some other festival/ cinema 500 kms away and makes it to the festival just in time (or not)
- Films where the director is present, with Q&A at the end that takes hours
- there's no telling which weird short movie will win a prize
- for longer movies: add sad children + sad animals + war = prize
- at least three movies about dull relationship problems
- two films starting at the same time in a small cinema with doors next to eachother = confusion. Usually it mostly works out though
- film critics that go from film to film to another film halfway
- great after parties though
if you need some examples of films that get shown at IFFR; Bas always writes reviews on his LJ: http://bsting.livejournal.com/tag/iffr
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What are the venues like when you work it? Like, I am picturing something like one of our music fests in NOLA, where we'll have lots of tents and stages, and I suspect that is not at all accurate.