Official Plastic Paradise Documentary Thread - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Mar 11, 2014 3:04 PM One has to keep in mind that the filmmakers started out as making this docu for the local PBS affiliate, and it was first going to concentrate on the Florida/Hukilau/MaiKai scene. Then they branched out to California, a lil' bit. I tried to get them to put as much history and actual TIKI (the figure) in there as possible: For my taste it could have been more about the actual Tiki image (after all it's Tiki-this and Tiki-that all the time) - but then it WAS called "Plastic Paradise", not "Plastic Tiki Paradise" :) They did a fine job showing us folks as being sympathetically crazy, not dumb crazy, kudos for that! And I think Tiki Bob Brooks was the star of the show: He looked sharp, in a great shot, and his accent really made it authentic - like from back in the day :) [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2014-03-11 15:05 ]

One has to keep in mind that the filmmakers started out as making this docu for the local PBS affiliate, and it was first going to concentrate on the Florida/Hukilau/MaiKai scene. Then they branched out to California, a lil' bit. I tried to get them to put as much history and actual TIKI (the figure) in there as possible: For my taste it could have been more about the actual Tiki image (after all it's Tiki-this and Tiki-that all the time) - but then it WAS called "Plastic Paradise", not "Plastic Tiki Paradise" :) They did a fine job showing us folks as being sympathetically crazy, not dumb crazy, kudos for that!
And I think Tiki Bob Brooks was the star of the show: He looked sharp, in a great shot, and his accent really made it authentic - like from back in the day :)

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2014-03-11 15:05 ]

Post #710869 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Mar 11, 2014 3:04 PM