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What idiot Made this?

posted 11 years ago by Geekfreak13
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This would have been a really good retelling of the horrible tragedy, if it was done by professionals.

Why would anyone cast a child in such a scene with a man holding a gun to her head. Yes it happened in real life, but to subject a a baby so young in a scene when a man is hold a gun to her head is absolute lunacy.

They could have used pictures, with a screaming baby in the background and get the same results.

I hope the production company, and the parents of this child get her enough therapy to understand that what happened in this film is not real.

[–] cherylwooding 10 years ago

Oh my goodness, that is EXACTLY what I thought, too, when I saw the re-enactment scenes!! I even re-watched with the director commentary to see if maybe there was some "reasonable" explanation for his decision to have an actor hold a gun to a screaming/crying toddler's head and this is what I found out: the director actually prides himself on finding random people from the Las Cruces area to act these scenes. So this small child has NO exposure/experience/training for this sort of scenario!! The director also points out how it's instinct for the child to grab the barrel of the gun to protect herself from it.
What a horrible, horrible choice on the director's and anyone that did not put that scene on the cutting room floor.

[–] FridayOnElmStreet 9 years ago

Yeah this needed better filmmakers.