Comradeship // Freechat

I need to watch happier things...

Anyway, I've been on a horror kick recently and found a video talking about the production of Twilight Zone the movie, 1983.

In one scene, the main protagonist, played by Vic Morro, saves two vietnamese children from a village that is under fire from an American Huey helicopter. To give a timeline

Director John LA district concieves the scene

he hired two children, Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, under the table, lying to safety crew and even the parents of said children. He doesn't tell safety crew that there'll be children on set, and says to the parents that "there'll just be some loud noises"

upon constructing the set, there are some test runs done. During one run the helicopter pilot complains that the pyrotechnics are too big and risk damaging the helicopter. Landis doesn't change anything

During the filming of the scene, the pyrotechnics are of course way too much. After wading through much of the river, Vic drops Renee. Before he can recover, one of the pyrotechnics launches debris into the helicopters tail rotor and comes crashing down. CW:

spoiler

Vic and Myca were decapitated by the helicopter blades, while Renee was crushed by the body of the helicopter. Myca's head was later found, and was intially assumed to be a prop until people realized they found a child's decapitated head.

Oh also the parents were on set

Landis goes to Vic's, Renee's and Myca's funeral uninvited. At Vic's funeral he gives a speech saying that it was a "tragic and unavoidable accident"

in court people testify that Landis demanded the helicopter descend further, closer to the action. Of course the aforementioned safety violations were also brought up

Landis is aquitted, and while he does pay some damages in civil suits, goes on to have a successful career. He gifted the jury that acquitted him tickets to his next film

1.Im not a big justice guy. I care if people are fed and clothed. If the Romanovs fucked off to America or something, eh, at least the peasants of russia are getting peace land and bread.

2.I know theres obviously bigger examples. The nazis who got away, a certain terror government rhyming with isn't real, the Atomic terror bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki that I talked about in my last post.

But fuck man. Really? This is such a clear case. Two children died because some rich guy wanted an action scene for some reason. And then he gets to barge into a funeral, say "oops, who could've seen that coming" and then go on to make more crappy movies to get rich off of

Oh and his son would go on to sexually abuse multiple women. Just in case you thought this paragraph would be any good news.

I'm gonna go watch a studio ghibli film or something I'm too depressed for this rn