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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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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