I have said and shared more than once that Florida has great potential for the film and television industry. There is no reason why there shouldn’t be more work shot in Florida.
However, from what I’ve experienced, as well as, from my understanding of the problems involved with productions – Florida has not grasped the possibilities for the future. Florida makes decisions for the immediate need. Florida as I have experienced it all these years is still a good o’l boy mentality with red neck mischief.
Florida should figure out making and creating decisions that could impact – for the better – the entire state what a difference it would make for every person for years, decades, and centuries to come.
There is no reason why Florida isn’t more accessible to Hollywood than California. Except California has put money, planning, city engineering, planned communities, engineered roads, etc. Florida takes the position of do it yourself. There is no organization, no commitment to a future for every person for the years to come.
What I’ve experienced – Florida is slow. It does not learn from the success of others and apply it with a purpose to the now.
I grew up in California, then my family moved to Oregon. When I moved to Oregon (as a young child) I thought Oregon is years behind California. The mentality of its people, fashion, politics, its view on the world, etc.
From Oregon my family moved to Florida when I was a teenager. I was devastated by the move. I was in culture shock for a very long time. Florida was so far behind Oregon – it’s mentality, fashion, politics, it’s view on the world, etc. it was unbearable.
Shouldn’t come as a shock, I suppose, since Florida was the last state in the union to amend its state constitution giving women the right to vote – 1971, folks. Can you believe that? That is if my internet research can be believed. Since my internet access has an undisclosed (unauthorised) governing upon it.
For me, it is quite literally painful to see possibility, potential, yet be stopped over and over and over again by stupidity, narrow-mindedness, and a failure to believe in the possibilities of human potential.
This writing for me is still an explanation, or reporting. It is not the writing I started with, nor is it the writing that I have stored away in the recesses of my mind, but do to the confines of my current life I am unable to reach.
I am Florida.
I have great potential. I have great possibility. Yet, time and time and time again I have been stopped, blocked, locked in, physically hurt to stop me, and literally slammed into to keep me isolated, stuck, and a version of what someone else wants of me. But, it is not me.
If I was able to live outside of this faked life – this unreal life I’ve been imprisoned in – if I was able to speak, to live with control over my body alone, without intruders in my body, in my place of residence, without games of control, without competition for my money and attention, where I could finally be free of 360, it would be the difference between California getting all the jobs and Florida finally being able to stand on its own legs.
WE - DO NOT AGREE! 