This is auteur theory's fault Tons of people on set could've and should've pushed back -- the kids' parents shouldn't have taken the job, Vic Morrow should've just walked out -- but Hollywood had this ingrained culture that directors were geniuses and you didn't question themhttps://twitter.com/JoshuaHumphrey/status/1335278128797790208 …
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This is really important Like, this whole thing happened because of so-called "bystander syndrome" Whether you're the actor in question, or an actor not in the scene, or a fucking extra, or the PA who brings people coffee, or a rando friend/family visiting the set
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How the fuck could all these people see something as obviously out-of-control and horrifying as this helicopter shoot with the little kids and just watch it go down -- FILM it going down It's only even possible because of how big-budget Hollywood was run like a cult
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Military-like hierarchy where it's super fucking important everyone knows their place in the pecking order and nobody talks back to someone above them in the chain of command if they want to keep on working in movies Fucking magnet for creeps and abusers and wackjobs at the top
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Guys like John Landis were drawn to making movies -- and stubbornly refused to find a job other than making movies after he caused the worst moviemaking scandal of his generation -- because there's no other job where you get to tell so many people what to do unquestioned
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I agree with this but I've seen enough pushback against auteur theory this past decade to last me a lifetime. I can almost feel a film journalist/culture writer get turned on when they point out film is a collaborative medium (no shit) and how much of an army it takes yadda
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Especially now at the studio level where films are increasingly workshopped into an always pretty good movie as opposed to say... The Insider, where it's still very much the voice of some weirdo working through something.
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And yet, since then, we've had Gillian traumatizing Sarah Polley on the set of Munchausen, Tarantino injuring Uma Thurman - his friend and muse! - on the set of Kill Bill, leaving her in chronic pain, and no doubt many many others who are still afraid to speak out.
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