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Right-wing Anti-Hollywood Hysterics

posted 3 years ago by MavKilledGoose (784)
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How many people have died from firearms on film sets in the past sixty years? Reports from people in the industry suggest a culture of safety.

Meanwhile, since 1968, more Americans have died from firearms than all wars combined. It's ridiculous that this one incident spurs so much talk (and possibly legislation) while the US generally accepts needless death en masse -- with some right-wing opportunists even self-righteously condemning "liberal Hollywood" for failing to "respect" firearms. I'm hesitant to call this a "freak" accident given reports of the culture of the Rust set, but it certainly sounds like a freak production.

I wouldn't be surprised if more industry people die as a result of working long hours. Legendary DP Haskell Wexler made a documentary Who Needs Sleep after a cameraman on the film Pleasantville died driving home after a 19 hour shift, but Hollywood's happy to ignore basic work/life balance if they can go after guns.

[–] TrentnQuarantino (8610) 3 years ago

It's really not much of an exaggeration to say that virtually the way we do everything is broken. The people in power are the psychopaths who push their way to the top. Maybe not all of them, but the corruption in the system feeds back on itself and reinforces more corruption - the bad crowds out the good.

We have a lot of smart managers and social scientists who could probably figure out how to design a system where the good pushes out the bad - a self-reinforcing system with a political immune system like our body's immune system - but the cancer that has taken over worldwide and even normalized itself so that few of us even question it anymore is very settled and not going to allow itself to be dislodged - even if it takes the whole world down with it.

There is no reason we need to put people under such pressure so that they are practically enslaved by the political or business hierarchy in life.