{"id":20175,"date":"2014-05-22T17:48:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T21:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=20175"},"modified":"2014-05-27T14:29:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T18:29:13","slug":"fatal-film-accident-prompts-wrongful-death-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=20175","title":{"rendered":"“Fatal Film Accident Prompts Wrongful Death Suit”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fatal Film Accident Prompts Wrongful Death Suit – NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I used to work in the film business. Once I witnessed a dangerous stunt, a staged suicide for which a car had to crash over a bridge and land in the stream below. The stunt man who set up the scene was intimidating, a tall, handsome man who operated physically and psychologically at a remove from the rest of us. In that scene, he was required only to drive the car up to the bridge; the crash would take place without him in the vehicle. So he lived, wasn’t even bruised.<\/p>\n

Once in a while, I hear about injuries on film sets caused, in my strong opinion, by the monomania of a film director whose ego cannot be penetrated by any common sense, any responsibility for the dangers he places others in.<\/p>\n

And the biz indulges directors. At some point decades ago they demanded and were granted “auteur” status which they seem to interpret as the freedom to become insane despots.<\/p>\n

I may be an enthralled audience for the work they do, but I don’t have to love the way they achieve it.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Parents of Victim in Film Set Accident Plan Safety Campaign – NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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