So I'm guessing most of you don't have the first clue who Sarah Jones is. That's probably because your Facebook feed isn't 70% below-the-line Hollywood crew.
Sarah Jones was a 2nd AC (of the 5 or so people on camera, 2nd AC is pretty much the bottom) on a film in Georgia that got killed by a train. Not the sort of thing most people expect to encounter in their jobs and indeed, there are all sorts of safety protocols on a legit shoot that prevent this stuff.
The problem is most shoots aren't legit.
I've got scars from this where I had to sneak past a cameraman in a doorway with exposed rusty nails (yes, I got a tetanus booster out of it). I've walked off some other stuff with my name on it, so I won't link. But while I work in a Union industry with lots of theoretical oversight, you can still end up dead because someone told you to put a bed on the train tracks.
- One scene in CBGB was filmed at a private home that had been secured with permission by the producers, although the house’s owners were not fully aware that a piano would be dropped down a set of stairs in the process – an omission Miller laughs about on the film’s DVD commentary, saying “So this is a real house and I don’t think they fully knew that we were going to drop a piano down their staircase.” In another scene exec producer Gant’s young son runs through a field of cows, to which Miller says, “I don’t think it’s dangerous at all to have a little kid run through cows – do you think?” One CBGB crew member told Deadline the production crew “never got a single safety bulletin” including a heat advisory, despite shooting through the hot Georgia summer.
Anyway. I've come to blows on this site before; as the central-casting nemesis of all piracy discussion, that's the sort of thing that happens. But I felt like sharing the kinds of shit that goes into the movies that you watch.
You wouldn't think a town like LA could rally around something completely and utterly. Sharia law? well yes, actually. And the fact that this production is trying to start over in LA has prompted a pretty impressive groundswell of people refusing to work on it.
Anyway. I felt like sharing.
