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‘It took me years to see how responsible Terry Gilliam was for my terror’
- serf 4y agoI'm not a parent , so excuse me if this question is somehow callous -- but at what point is this the parent's fault? This particular line stuck out to me : "I had to do it again. I had to do it until I got it right. I went cold with fear, shaking. I sobbed in my father’s arms in between takes and pleaded with him to intervene.He held me close, soothing me. But when an assistant director came over to say they needed another take, my father said, with genuine remorse: “I’m afraid they have to do it again, love. I’m sorry. There’s nothing I can do.” And so I ran the gauntlet of explosives again. And again. And again." The father , one of the people best acquainted with the child , saw the child's distress and rather than trying to translate these perceived worries to the cast of the film, he pushed the child to grin and bear it. In other words -- why wasn't it expected for the father to intervene rather than expecting Terry Gilliam to perceive the emotional terror of a child that he has little experience with? As an unrelated outsider looking in after reading this article, it feels as if the father who was deaf and blind to the fright and terror of his daughter is the one responsible for this lady's terror, and that Terry Gilliam was blinded by the complexity of his job and the chaos of the set & crew -- it was the father who had but a single job, supporting the child actress, and he failed to do so adequately.
- sn0w_crash 4y agoWe live in a culture where personal agency and responsibility is no longer a virtue. Everything is the result of either society, systemic problems, some power hierarchy, or $externality. Rather than accept that the parents are to blame here it is much easier to just write a hit piece 30 years later blaming the production team.
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