I'm shooting a really tiny project on the Warner Bros. lot Sunday.
There is going to be 4 of us. Do you realize what a PAIN in the ass it is to get ANYTHING done because of liability?
I don't blame the studio. Nope. I blame us. Not me and the crew. But people in general. Business are paranoid. The minute you step onto their property, you are a liability. When they see your stupid face in their space, they see someone who could potentially sue them. Fucking fuck! No one takes responsibility anymore. The common sense factor is out of the window because NO ONE will take ownership of their own stupid behavior.
When I was a kid we use to build treehouses. Man, we'd get really high into the branches on this open lot behind a house. It was a field. When the guy who owned the house died, the lot went back to the bank. The bank shut us down. For fear we would fall out of the trees and hurt ourselves. At the time I was thinking what horseshit this was. Because my parents would never sue someone over something we did. Neither did any of my friends. They just plugged away at the tree house. We didn't care. If we fell, that's our own stupidity. We wouldn't cash in on it. We didn't even know that was an option. Nowadays, fuck...people sue over the DUMBEST fucking things. We are so litigious these days it's strangling our production. You can't do a single thing without someone worrying about personal injury. It sucks. Conversely, if it is a legit accident due to faulty whatever, then yes, I would expect a company to man-up and fix the issue, but...predominantly it's us assholes who don't understand accountability.
I get that personal injury is a (no pun intended) backbreaker. Medical costs have sent people into bankruptcy. But it has now become a lottery ticket. And we need to stop abusing it. Because we're not going to be able to do shit if we have this attitude towards each other. It's a wonder we're able to function now. Well, unless you're a tort attorney. Fuck this, man. STOP SUING over stupid shit.
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