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As Peter and Ridley make a movie- part-5

Afterword

Russell Crowe left his temporary home in Provence, then repeatedly spoken out in that spirit, there it felt like home - so he actually lives in his mansion in Australia. (I wonder if there is his vineyards produces a wine? Some Chardonnay Crowe-Creek?)

Ridley Scott is still the owner of the estate in Oppende, located ten minutes drive from the former location filming. Sometimes a rest is in between the creation of blockbusters. His managers monitor its vineyards produce its own wine, of course, not on an industrial scale, as well - for the home.
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As Peter and Ridley make a movie- part-4

Exterior

I wonder how Ridley Scott chose the character for filming. In a large movie all done for real. If the plot is the story of a garage wine - it is a winery and is selected. He visited all the surrounding neighborhood - between their home and the home of Peter - and found just what seemingly has been specially created to embody the creative intention of our friends.
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As Peter and Ridley make a movie- part-3

The book and the script

Well - Peter really light up this idea. He sat down in 2003 for his laptop - and for the nine months wrote what was required - a new book “A Good Year” . Not in semi-documentary style-wonderful story, as all his previous books, notes about his own life - and this artwork with a fictional heroes - garage winemakers.
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As Peter and Ridley make a movie- part-2

Filmmaker

What Ridley? Ridley, finished with promotional toys of youth, threw such minor things like three-minute clips, and began to make a great movie. Very large. Such that there is probably a man on earth, which at least one of his films and do not look.

Because it was not some sort of simple Ridley, and - the real Ridley Scott. A friend of our wonderful young Peter. The most popular and prolific British-French writer Peter Maylie, singer wine of Provence.
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As Peter and Ridley make a movie- part-1

The history of the life of world-famous writer and director, which occurred in Provence

Longtime friends

We start from afar. Peter Ridley and friends from his youth. In the old seventies they met in London, when both worked in the advertising business. Peter was inclined to write the text, he worked as writers, but Ridley was always able to easily lift a pretty picture for an advertising clip.
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Happiness

Sometimes I’ll inject a blog injections of psychotropic drugs. They will potrepyvat you so careless a friendly hand, as if to say: “All right, buddy.” Look for these records on a label “Dai, Jim, good luck to me a paw”. Add your pills too. Just quotes and illustrations to them. Carefully selected, of course.
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How to Taste Properly

It’s a Matter of Taste

Drinking wine is a lot like looking at art. You may not know a lot about it, but you know what you like. Basically, it all comes down to a matter of taste. To evaluate wine like the experts, here’s what you do. At a restaurant, the sommelier will present the bottle to you, basically so that you can see it’s the bottle and vintage that you ordered. If you’re serving wine at home, you skip this step.
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Kathleen Madison Moore, who loves wine and art of the twentieth century

There is a literary game. Group members is given topic, such as Little Red Riding Hood, and to write texts in the style of different writers - as it did Balzac, Dumas, Hemingway, or say, Pelevin. The result is extremely amusing. Generally speaking, a literary institute is given as homework. As well as architecture students learn to design in different styles - today you Rastrelli, and tomorrow - Corbusier.

see wine level painted by famous artist

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Hardworking alcoholics

Tavern scene in the paintings of Adrian van Ostade

The Dutch are somewhat similar to the Japanese. Also occupy the land by the sea, like flowers, working like crazy, constantly learning. They invented the stock market, newspapers, and gin. I taught Peter to build ships, to swear in Dutch, smoking his pipe and drinking punch. - Yes, that’s interesting: the phenomenal performance in this nation go hand in hand with the outbursts of indiscriminate drinking (here the parallel ends with the Japanese).
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Cool Wine Art

Well folks, we have just discovered some wine art that would actually look good. These paintings are not the usual ho-hum, boring paintings of a cluster of grapes in a basket, or a surreal vineyard with a majestic Chateau in the distance. Nope, these pieces have some personality and gusto. They jump out at you and say, “Drink me”. I like that.

Charles Kaufman is the artist, and wine bottles are his focus. This is just one series of paintings that he creates with oil and acrylic paints on stretched canvas. The paintings can be customized to the buyers’ desire, and Mr. Kaufman can and will feature a special wine, date, or graphic on the label. Canvas size can also be customized.
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