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In Reply to: Re: film production--about Union Building Trades Scale posted by Tom Brennan on February 26, 2003 at 15:27:13:
TB,I find movie making endlessly facinating as it's so similar to a military operation but (hopefully) no one is injured.***
As you say, there are definite perks to the movie-making scene besides the money, safety and the nice weather of LA. The conditions are very careful and the mood is generally positive and friendly- only directors and the Nicholson-level are allowed to scream. A substantial time is spent waiting so you meet and talk to some interesting people who have been called. Teh food is surprisingly good and I notice set caterers are now credited.
As you say, there are definite perks to the movie-making scene besides safety and the nice weather of LA. At the set of Dr. Doolittle I watched from the back where a fellow was sitting with a wild red-tailed hawk on his arm! He was hanging around with it to acclimatize it to being around people. That does not happen often in my regular work which involves construction. I have met quite a few lead feature actors but I remember that hawk more vividly!
My friends that are crew and PP do not get rich but instead work about 6-8 months per year and go to Bhutan, Nepal, or the Amazon for a month ot two. The suits have high incomes but have to work 80 hours per week year round and worry about the right table at Mortons and whether Range Rovers are out now and Mercedes G500s are in. A friend in studio business affairs mistakenly bought a Jaguar XKR convertible and was soon moved to an office that was 1'8" smaller.
I think I would rather join the Bhutan touring crowd with 6 months off!
K
***[Cameron is absolutely a nut about safety and in all those complex shots of explosions, drownings, shooting, fire, alien mauling, and killing there is virtually nothing beyond a Band-Aid cut or scrape. He refused to use those small remote-control helicopter cameras because he considered them unsafe.]
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