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- When the new Hollywood
came about,
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your Scorseses and your
Coppolas and your De Palmas,
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and your Friedkins,
and your Ciminos,
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they really kinda bought
into their own press,
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this kind of swinging dick,
auteur theory,
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two-fisted filmmaking.
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- The '70s were kind of
the wild west.
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People love hearing stories
about William Friedkin
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firing a gun on the set
of "The Exorcist".
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It would just take one tweet
to come out of a production
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of someone just firing a gun
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to get a reaction from
somebody else
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and then that director's career
would be over.
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[Gunshot pops]
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- They were pushing boundaries.
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They were pioneers of cinema.
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- There was a lot of belief
when these auteurs
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were creating beautiful art,
but at what cost?
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- Certainly, there's a culture
that's happening in the '70s
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that is letting these guys
run wild
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and we got a lot of great
films out of it,
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but you also get a lot of...
mishaps.
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[Helicopter engine drones]
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- The incident on the set
of "The Twilight Zone"
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always stuck with me.
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Film sets are controlled chaos.
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I've been here at Blumhouse
for about four years now
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and I've been on a fair share
of sets
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and it is really interesting
to see,
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you know, how many precautions
are made.
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Someone's gotta take a slight
step backwards down a staircase
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and we've gotta do a bunch
of safety meetings,
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and for good reason.
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- For all the coincidences
that have to be connected
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to give life to these cursed
legends,
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The Twilight Zone accident
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sort of lays that all bare,
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it's... it's just something
horrible that happened.
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- I'm Stephen Farber,
a film critic
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and co-author of the book
"Outrageous Conduct:
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Art, Ego, and The Twilight Zone
Case".
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John Landis
and Stephen Spielberg,
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came up with the idea of this
anthology film
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inspired by The Twilight Zone
TV series,
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which had a real cult following.
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[Twilight Zone theme music]
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Narrator: You unlock this door
with the key of imagination.
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Beyond it is another dimension,
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a dimension of sound.
[Glass shatters]
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The Twilight Zone.
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- The basic idea of Landis'
segment
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was just for this bigot
to experience prejudice
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in these different settings
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and to get a sense of what
the people that he had maligned
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would go through.
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Vic Morrow who was the leading
actor in this segment,
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he wasn't that impressed
with John Landis,
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but he was impressed
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that Spielberg was involved
with the movie,
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and he needed a job, frankly.
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His career had not been going
that well at that time.
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John Landis had had a very big
box office success
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with "Animal House".
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He had a somewhat less
but still success
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with the "Blues Brothers".
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This was the auteur era,
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where, uh, directors were
really granted carte blanche.
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There was not much oversight
by the studios.
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- I met Frank Marshall
years and years ago.
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I built a relationship
with Frank
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and he called me up
and he says, you know,
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I like you to be involved
in more of my pictures
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and Frank had offered me
"The Twilight Zone,"
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which introduced me
to John Landis.
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I sat down with John
and we started to discuss
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how we can create those worlds
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and it was very important
to be as real,
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as realistic as possible.
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We found the backlot
at Universal
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for the European street.
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Also, for the, uh, cattle car
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and creating that scene.
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- The studio felt it would
be better
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if you learned something
from this experience
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that would redeem the character,
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so Landis came up with the idea
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of the Vietnam sequence
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where he would save the lives
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of two Vietnamese orphans
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who were in danger.
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I think Landis was considered
to be...
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talented but erratic
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and not the most mature
in judgment,
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or the most responsible
in terms of filmmaking,
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and several of the crew people
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were concerned about
his cavalier attitude
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towards safety.
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- One of the scenes
is Vic Morrow
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is running through the jungle,
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coming through the greenery
of Vietnam,
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which I filled in...
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- Help me!
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- ...and he is being shot at.
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- No!
[Rapid gunfire]
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- To get the realistic feel
of them being shot at,
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before the bullets go off,
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he is pulled off out of scene
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and the bullets shoot,
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and they rip the shit out
of the greenery,
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the palm fronds
and the whole thing.
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[Gunshots stop]
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Well, they used real bullets
that night.
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That was something that John
insisted on doing.
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John called me into his office
and said,
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we're gonna go to Valencia,
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and we drove through this area
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that did have aspects
of a jungle.
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So I was walking by myself
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and there was a stream,
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and a large cliff on the other
side of the stream.
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I went over to John and
I brought him over to the,
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to the stream and I said,
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John, I see a village over
there.
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He says, what are you talking
about?
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So I said to him,
if you agree with me,
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that we shoot the set
in one direction only,
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I will build you a village -
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if we always angle the camera
in one direction
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as we dolly back.
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He said, he said, yes.
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And uh...
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I went back,
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did a little research,
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and I built that village.
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The set was unbelievable.
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It was Vietnam.
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That evening I was approached
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by many of the top people
in Hollywood,
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putting them-- their hands
around me
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and saying, this is remarkable,
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how does it feel to be
in the big time?
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[Emotional exhales]
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The scene, basically,
to lay it out for you,
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was Vic is coming into
the village,
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a helicopter comes in,
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he picks up the children,
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comes up to the water's edge
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and then runs towards
the camera,
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saving the children.
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[Crying] Excuse me.
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- It was illegal to work
children
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after, I think, like
eight o'clock at night.
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They wanted it to be done
much later
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to have an authentic
night scene,
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and when the casting directors
heard
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what the scene entailed
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with children...
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in the vicinity of explosions
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underneath a helicopter,
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the casting director said
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this sounds like a dangerous
scene.
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So Landis said,
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we'll get them off the street
ourselves.
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A number of people made remarks
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that if they were hiring
the children illegally
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and if they found out about
the explosions,
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we're gonna be sent to jail.
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- We did a lot of tests
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where the helicopter comes down,
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how high it is,
where it is positioned.
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- They had done an earlier scene
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without the actors
and the children,
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just kind of testing
some of the things out
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with the explosions
and the helicopter,
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and the helicopter was rocked
violently
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by these explosions
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and the people in
the helicopter said,
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Gee, that seemed kinda rough.
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And John Landis is reported
to have said,
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you think that was big?
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You ain't seen nothing yet.
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My name is Kane Hodder. Uh...
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Among other things,
I've been a stuntman for 40,
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almost 42 years,
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and played Jason in several
of the "Friday the 13th" films.
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Sometimes things just happen
on sets.
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I can tell you any number
of times I've done a stunt
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where something happened
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that I really didn't expect.
Like uh...
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I did a, a, what's called
a pipe ramp.
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It's a where you take a car
and you hit a pipe like this
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and it makes the car go
like that -
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fly in the air.
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I did one of those on
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3".
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As the stunt coordinator,
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I placed where the camera would
be safe
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and just so happened,
when I hit the ramp,
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[Crash]
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it just happened to hit
so it kinda flipped like that
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and went quite a bit further
than I anticipated.
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You know, unfortunately
things, at times, just happen.
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So 1977,
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a local reporter wanted to do
a story on me
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for the Reno Newspaper.
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And I said, you know,
if you want,
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I could do a fire stunt
for you live.
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I still don't know exactly
what went wrong,
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but I suddenly burst into
way more flames
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than I was expecting,
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uh, I panicked.
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I ended up having
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what they said was 45%
third degree,
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which is a lot.
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The next five and a half months
was spent in the hospital
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going through tremendous
amounts of pain
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and uh...
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psychological stuff,
I would say.
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Later in my career, I started
doing fire stunts again
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and became kind of known for it.
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What you do as best you can
as a stunt coordinator
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is try to avoid anything
that you can think of
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that could possibly go wrong
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but knowing there's no
guarantee of anything.
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- Here's what's happening
right now.
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We are locked down with camera,
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the stuntman is prepping,
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and then we're gonna light him
on fire.
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- Action, Friedrick!
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- [Screaming]
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[Extinguisher whooshes]
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- Nothing could be that good.
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I think it'd be that
unbelievable.
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Not since the Vietnam Buddhist
priest
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was there such a flame out.
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- I think that large-scale
productions
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are kind of a breeding ground
for these stories
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because there's so many more
opportunities
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for these weird little things
to happen,
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these mishaps that take on
a life of their own,
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or these big accidents, again,
that we have to sort of
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get our heads around.
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The other end of that spectrum
is a guy like Lloyd Kaufman
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and Troma Studios.
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One of these mishaps would end
Troma forever.
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- I don't want women with tiny
babies coming through here,
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tripping over wires,
bumping into people, right?
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You don't want people falling
on cables, right,
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especially little tiny babies.
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Hello, hello, I'm Lloyd Kaufman,
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President of Troma
Entertainment,
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creator of "The Toxic Avenger".
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And believe it or not,
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Troma Entertainment is the
oldest independent movie studio
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in the world.
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44 years of making movies
of the future,
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like "The Toxic Avenger",
"Class of Nuke 'Em High",
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"Tromeo and Juliet".
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- Ahhh! [Smash]
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- And now "Shakespeare's
Shitstorm",
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our version of "The Tempest".
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There's nothing more ego
oriented or narcissistic
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than making an ode to a movie...
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Christ Almighty.
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I'm sorry, start over.
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Uh, that didn't, yeah,
acting there's not right.
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It's about the art,
it's about the movie.
271
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I'm a total narcissist,
272
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but I'm motivated by film.
273
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[Phone buzzes]
Yes.
274
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Why are you calling me?
275
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You've got assistant directors
to talk to, no joke,
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'cause we're in the middle
of a shot, I'm sorry.
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I never was for the money.
278
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After Yale University,
I had a job in California,
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I would have taken that.
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Instead, I took acid and I
decided to stay in New York
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and work for a shitty little
company called Troma.
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Brendon, you know, we're gonna
do the car crashing
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through the, uh,
garage tomorrow?
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No, you cannot be there,
nor can Caleb,
285
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or that guy, whatever
his name is.
286
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This guy's over on a big ladder
here, right now.
287
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- Everybody ready?
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And action car.
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[Loud crash]
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- You all right, Erin?
- Yeah, dude.
291
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- Holy shit.
- Yes, sir.
292
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- Can I get your view
on how that stunt went?
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- Um...
294
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The three rules of production -
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Troma rules of production -
we're not posted.
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Troma has three rules
of production:
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safety to humans,
safety to peoples' property,
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and make a good film.
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We put up signs around the set.
Action!
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And the words make a good movie
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are smaller than safety
to humans
302
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and safety to peoples' property
303
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because a movie is only a movie.
304
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Cut! Let's go back
and get the close-ups.
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Don't run, don't run.
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- Don't run, please walk.
307
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- When you think about it,
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effects or stunts,
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or even film people in general,
310
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we do things that are
inherently dangerous
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and our safety record
would put GM to shame,
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or any other industry.
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So what I'm doing here is
I'm gonna make a fireball.
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That's a one-pound propane tank
that goes in
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and we put a small, uh,
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black powder charge in the end
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that'll shoot that knife
through there,
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a spark will go off and uh...
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we'll get, uh, some magic
happening.
320
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You can never get used to
the amount of power you have
321
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as far as the, uh,
the explosions
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and uh, uh, fireballs,
or, you know, bullet hits
323
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and things like uh...
of that nature,
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or even, you know, air and
hydraulics and stuff like that,
325
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'cause it is a lot of power,
and if you get too used to it
326
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or you just, you don't respect
it enough,
327
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then, uh, generally the, uh,
effects God comes down
328
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and has an unusual bowel
movement in your Cheerios.
329
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- I was very worried about
the kind of explosions
330
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that were gonna be used
in this picture.
331
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All of the positions of
the explosions
332
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are very, very well laid out
333
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and communicated with everybody,
334
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especially to myself.
335
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- So this is a fairly big
lifting charge
336
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for a very small mortar,
337
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but we'll put some debris on top
338
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so we can, you know, throw it
up in the air
339
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and put some dust
so we get some trails.
340
00:17:48,763 --> 00:17:51,244
- John asked me if I could move
one of the huts
341
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more to the center
of the village.
342
00:17:54,986 --> 00:17:57,206
I said, fine. So I had my team
bring it over.
343
00:17:58,251 --> 00:18:00,514
Things are being said
and I'm walking around
344
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and I find that there's an
explosion underneath this hut
345
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and I said,
get special effects on the phone.
346
00:18:08,130 --> 00:18:09,740
I want him here now.
347
00:18:11,394 --> 00:18:12,874
I was pissed.
348
00:18:14,005 --> 00:18:15,746
So he came over to me
and he said,
349
00:18:15,833 --> 00:18:17,444
what's up Rich and I said,
350
00:18:17,531 --> 00:18:19,707
what the hell is this doing here
351
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and why wasn't I told?
352
00:18:22,536 --> 00:18:24,451
So it's just da, da, da, da, da
and it's just,
353
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it's, it's angled back
at the, uh, hill
354
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and it's, it's okay.
355
00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:32,023
I said, that's not how it works.
356
00:18:34,287 --> 00:18:37,333
If I don't like it,
it's not gonna be here, okay?
357
00:18:37,420 --> 00:18:39,640
I'm the man.
358
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So if anything else
is on this set
359
00:18:43,774 --> 00:18:45,428
that I don't know about,
360
00:18:45,515 --> 00:18:47,474
you better fuckin' tell me.
361
00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:55,221
It's important for people
to know
362
00:18:55,308 --> 00:18:57,832
how much work goes into trying
to figure out
363
00:18:57,919 --> 00:19:00,791
and look at every possibility
that could come into play
364
00:19:00,878 --> 00:19:03,272
before a big shot like this.
365
00:19:05,318 --> 00:19:06,971
- It was the last night
of shooting.
366
00:19:07,058 --> 00:19:09,409
It was the final scene
367
00:19:09,496 --> 00:19:12,151
with the rescue of the two
children.
368
00:19:14,762 --> 00:19:16,329
- The decision was made
369
00:19:16,416 --> 00:19:19,288
that we needed all five cameras shooting
370
00:19:19,375 --> 00:19:21,334
to get all five shots.
371
00:19:23,249 --> 00:19:25,164
And I looked-- and I sat there
looking at this...
372
00:19:28,863 --> 00:19:30,908
the huey coming in,
373
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the smell of gasoline filling
the air,
374
00:19:35,348 --> 00:19:36,827
it was amazing.
375
00:19:38,133 --> 00:19:39,395
John Landis and I...
376
00:19:39,482 --> 00:19:42,616
chose an area upstream,
377
00:19:44,835 --> 00:19:47,708
not too far from where Vic
was gonna walk by us.
378
00:19:50,058 --> 00:19:51,625
[Sharp exhale]
379
00:19:51,712 --> 00:19:53,844
- The parents of the children
asked,
380
00:19:53,931 --> 00:19:55,977
is this dangerous?
381
00:19:56,064 --> 00:19:58,066
And they were told by
the producer
382
00:19:58,153 --> 00:19:59,633
who had hired them,
383
00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,505
Oh no, it's just like
a Disneyland ride.
384
00:20:05,378 --> 00:20:08,337
Vic Morrow felt it
was physically demanding
385
00:20:08,424 --> 00:20:11,079
and a little bit overwhelming,
386
00:20:12,950 --> 00:20:14,300
but he felt that
387
00:20:15,388 --> 00:20:18,304
he couldn't afford to be
too vociferous
388
00:20:19,435 --> 00:20:22,177
in challenging this powerful,
uh...
389
00:20:24,005 --> 00:20:25,485
film director,
390
00:20:25,572 --> 00:20:29,663
so he did it against
his better judgment.
391
00:20:30,794 --> 00:20:34,102
- All I can say, what I
remember that night, is...
392
00:20:36,409 --> 00:20:38,715
how big the explosions were.
393
00:20:41,588 --> 00:20:45,461
Looking over at Vic coming
across the water,
394
00:20:46,984 --> 00:20:48,334
the bombs going off around him,
395
00:20:51,206 --> 00:20:53,469
and, and I said, it's okay,
396
00:20:53,556 --> 00:20:55,428
we all planned this.
397
00:20:55,515 --> 00:20:57,125
We know where the helicopters
are gonna be.
398
00:20:57,212 --> 00:20:59,606
The huey comes into play.
399
00:21:01,999 --> 00:21:04,219
And I realize that...
400
00:21:05,438 --> 00:21:08,658
things are getting too close
to the helicopter.
401
00:21:11,182 --> 00:21:13,359
And I turned around,
I said, run.
402
00:21:19,321 --> 00:21:23,369
- The explosions were too
close to the helicopter,
403
00:21:26,676 --> 00:21:27,851
damaged it,
404
00:21:27,938 --> 00:21:30,680
brought it down into the river,
405
00:21:36,207 --> 00:21:39,123
killing Vic Morrow
and the two children
406
00:21:40,864 --> 00:21:44,564
while their parents were
standing watching this.
407
00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:52,398
- I turn,
408
00:21:52,485 --> 00:21:54,922
and there's the helicopter
409
00:21:56,315 --> 00:21:58,229
on the ground.
410
00:21:58,317 --> 00:22:00,406
Silence.
411
00:22:04,627 --> 00:22:06,499
And then there's the words,
412
00:22:06,586 --> 00:22:09,328
where's Vic? Where's the kids?
413
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,853
[Crying]
414
00:22:17,553 --> 00:22:19,512
I don't really remember
what I did after that.
415
00:22:19,599 --> 00:22:22,732
All I remember was seeing
the children's parents,
416
00:22:24,517 --> 00:22:26,301
one hugging a tree,
417
00:22:27,433 --> 00:22:31,306
realizing that the children
and Vic were cut in half.
418
00:22:34,309 --> 00:22:36,355
Newsreel: Five companies
involved in the filming
419
00:22:36,442 --> 00:22:39,532
of "The Twilight Zone" have
been fined a total of $62,000
420
00:22:39,619 --> 00:22:41,925
for what a California
safety board termed
421
00:22:42,012 --> 00:22:43,927
"willful and serious safety
violations
422
00:22:44,014 --> 00:22:46,582
in the helicopter crash
that claimed three lives".
423
00:22:46,669 --> 00:22:48,758
- And there's still one more
question to be considered.
424
00:22:48,845 --> 00:22:51,979
The children who were killed
were working without permits.
425
00:22:52,066 --> 00:22:54,634
State labor officials may
file criminal charges
426
00:22:54,721 --> 00:22:57,201
against the producers for
illegally working the children
427
00:22:57,288 --> 00:22:59,203
at 2:30 in the morning.
428
00:22:59,290 --> 00:23:02,642
- Our office would never have
approved children,
429
00:23:02,729 --> 00:23:05,253
six and seven years of age,
430
00:23:05,340 --> 00:23:07,124
to be in that area.
431
00:23:09,605 --> 00:23:12,478
- Well, Landis went to all
three of the funerals actually.
432
00:23:16,743 --> 00:23:18,484
He went to the children's
funerals
433
00:23:18,571 --> 00:23:21,835
and he went to Vic Morrow's
funeral.
434
00:23:21,922 --> 00:23:24,490
And he very much wanted to speak
435
00:23:25,795 --> 00:23:28,624
at Vic Morrow's funeral
436
00:23:28,711 --> 00:23:31,932
and said something
to the effect that,
437
00:23:32,019 --> 00:23:35,457
uh, film lives forever,
Vic is immortal.
438
00:23:50,516 --> 00:23:52,561
- The trial is just beginning.
439
00:23:52,648 --> 00:23:54,911
At issue, who's responsible
for three deaths
440
00:23:54,998 --> 00:23:56,826
on "The Twilight Zone" movie
set.
441
00:23:56,913 --> 00:24:00,090
Lawyers for the film's director
blame an explosives expert,
442
00:24:00,177 --> 00:24:03,093
but Sandy Kenyon reports
prosecutors disagree.
443
00:24:03,180 --> 00:24:05,835
Sandy: The trial got underway
with two different accounts
444
00:24:05,922 --> 00:24:07,620
of how the tragedy occurred.
445
00:24:07,707 --> 00:24:10,187
The defense claimed
a bazaar accident
446
00:24:10,274 --> 00:24:12,102
led to three deaths.
447
00:24:12,189 --> 00:24:14,583
The prosecution laid the blame
on the filmmakers,
448
00:24:14,670 --> 00:24:18,239
accusing them of staging
a dangerous stunt.
449
00:24:18,326 --> 00:24:19,806
- You have to use your own
common sense.
450
00:24:19,893 --> 00:24:22,156
You cannot mix explosions,
a helicopter,
451
00:24:22,243 --> 00:24:24,550
and human beings,
let alone children,
452
00:24:24,637 --> 00:24:26,552
and not realize that there's
a potential for danger.
453
00:24:26,639 --> 00:24:30,556
- The jury ultimately
felt that the prosecutor
454
00:24:30,643 --> 00:24:33,907
had not proved that high
standard
455
00:24:35,038 --> 00:24:37,650
of criminal negligence.
456
00:24:37,737 --> 00:24:40,435
- You don't prosecute people
for unfore-
457
00:24:40,522 --> 00:24:42,263
foreseeable accidents.
458
00:24:42,350 --> 00:24:44,744
- We, the jury, in the
above-entitled action,
459
00:24:44,831 --> 00:24:47,137
find the defendant, John Landis,
460
00:24:47,224 --> 00:24:50,489
not guilty of involuntary
manslaughter.
461
00:24:50,576 --> 00:24:53,056
- Outside the courtroom the
director's victory statement
462
00:24:53,143 --> 00:24:55,798
was tempered with remorse.
463
00:24:55,885 --> 00:24:59,106
- Almost five years ago
an accident happened on the set
464
00:24:59,193 --> 00:25:02,413
of one of my films that killed
three people
465
00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:04,851
and that nothing,
none of this changes that.
466
00:25:04,938 --> 00:25:07,070
- They had had to pay fines
already
467
00:25:07,157 --> 00:25:09,943
for hiring the children
illegally,
468
00:25:10,030 --> 00:25:13,599
but they were not convicted
of crimes.
469
00:25:14,687 --> 00:25:17,428
- This is a terrible,
terrible accident that,
470
00:25:18,734 --> 00:25:21,694
obviously, will cause pain
and anguish to all of us
471
00:25:21,781 --> 00:25:24,044
for the rest of our lives.
472
00:25:24,131 --> 00:25:26,133
- They found him innocent.
473
00:25:26,220 --> 00:25:28,614
And I was married,
two young kids,
474
00:25:30,224 --> 00:25:31,617
working hard in my career -
475
00:25:31,704 --> 00:25:33,532
at the, at the prime of...
476
00:25:33,619 --> 00:25:37,274
of one of the biggest producers
in Hollywood
477
00:25:37,361 --> 00:25:38,841
putting his, his hand around me
and says,
478
00:25:38,928 --> 00:25:40,582
how does it feel to be
in the big time -
479
00:25:40,669 --> 00:25:43,498
and my career was over
in a blink of an eye.
480
00:25:45,979 --> 00:25:48,416
- I wasn't there at
"The Twilight Zone" incident
481
00:25:48,503 --> 00:25:52,376
but sometimes it's nobody's
fault in particular.
482
00:25:52,463 --> 00:25:55,075
Everybody wants to point
a finger at,
483
00:25:55,162 --> 00:25:57,077
at whose fault it was,
484
00:25:57,164 --> 00:26:01,385
but there's not always
an obvious person to blame.
485
00:26:02,822 --> 00:26:04,998
Things happen. That's the
nature of doing stunts.
486
00:26:07,522 --> 00:26:09,437
- If I was responsible
for somebody
487
00:26:09,524 --> 00:26:11,265
getting seriously injured...
488
00:26:11,352 --> 00:26:12,962
It's just a fuckin' movie,
489
00:26:13,049 --> 00:26:14,660
that's why you don't...
you don't do those things,
490
00:26:14,747 --> 00:26:18,185
you don't...
it's just not worth it.
491
00:26:18,272 --> 00:26:20,013
I would stop making movies.
492
00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:22,276
I would be selling shoes,
or hot dogs, or whatever,
493
00:26:22,363 --> 00:26:24,670
or maybe blowing my fuckin'
brains out.
494
00:26:24,757 --> 00:26:26,454
I couldn't live with it.
495
00:26:26,541 --> 00:26:29,588
So I'm, I'm, it's a dangerous
profession moviemaking.
496
00:26:31,851 --> 00:26:33,679
- We're making a movie here,
497
00:26:33,766 --> 00:26:35,506
we're not, uh, you know,
498
00:26:35,594 --> 00:26:38,205
saving the world, or splitting
the atom or, you know,
499
00:26:38,292 --> 00:26:41,338
taking a, a, a shot at the moon
or something, you know.
500
00:26:42,775 --> 00:26:45,299
- I think that Landis can't
be held fully accountable
501
00:26:45,386 --> 00:26:47,257
for everything happening
on that set,
502
00:26:47,344 --> 00:26:49,477
but you have to blame somebody, right?
503
00:26:49,564 --> 00:26:52,088
There has to be a reason for
something terrible happening.
504
00:26:52,175 --> 00:26:54,264
That's the crux of all this
cursed thinking.
505
00:26:55,657 --> 00:26:57,790
I think that the age of curses
is ending
506
00:26:57,877 --> 00:27:01,097
because of the way our lives
are recorded 24/7.
507
00:27:01,184 --> 00:27:04,448
We are moving away from this
sort of urban legend,
508
00:27:04,535 --> 00:27:06,320
word-of-mouth stories
509
00:27:06,407 --> 00:27:08,801
because too of our lives
is word-of-mouth anymore.
510
00:27:09,976 --> 00:27:11,760
I think seeing these things
changes
511
00:27:11,847 --> 00:27:14,545
how our minds process them.
512
00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:16,547
So it seems like an accident
like on the set
513
00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:18,724
of "The Twilight Zone"
is not the result of a curse
514
00:27:18,811 --> 00:27:21,640
but maybe that accident
is a curse.
515
00:27:23,250 --> 00:27:25,774
It's something that the effects
guy has to live with;
516
00:27:25,861 --> 00:27:27,863
it's something that
the casting director
517
00:27:27,950 --> 00:27:29,865
who hired those kids
has to live with.
518
00:27:29,952 --> 00:27:33,216
Everybody on that set has been
given a life sentence
519
00:27:33,303 --> 00:27:36,567
of having that accident
in their brain pan
520
00:27:36,655 --> 00:27:38,091
for the rest of their lives.
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