Occasionally, just occasionally these days, the internet still makes me a little sick to my stomach...

Occasionally, just occasionally these days, the internet still makes me a little sick to my stomach. The fact that this accident, which claimed 3 lives and gave my father PTSD for my entire time of knowing him (I was born in 1985), is repeatedly retold with apocryphal elements and only cursory mention that there was a huge, well prosecuted trial that ended in an ACQUITTAL based on YOU KNOW IT BEING AN ACTUAL FLUKE ACCIDENT and that being unequivocably proven in court is horrifying to me.

What's even darker is that people link me here, and are sure to let me know how much they hate me and that my father, a sweet, occasionally too loud man who was traumatized permanently by watching the death of one of his best friends on a movie he'd wanted to direct his entire life, is a piece of shit, disgusts me on a level that makes me queasy.

What's even more epic, hilariously awful is the people in here using this as a platform to talk endlessly about how shitty I am because I said I didn't like a movie they liked.

Three fucking people died. Little kids died. My mother, pregnant with me at the time, sat in court and watched my father for months be abandoned by EVERY professional friend in the industry because no one wanted to be associated with this tragedy. Vic Morrow, a great actor, was lost forever. Two young lives were ripped away. Safety rules were changed.

I see this brought up as a weapon to attack my father. To attack the film industry. To attack me. Occasionally as a weapon to attack jews, which is the oddest of all.

And every time it reminds me that being behind a keyboard, having vague cursory knowledge of an event 34 years ago, and a truly horrible .gif or .jpeg is all it takes to to turn some nice stranger into a completely vicious other.

There's a reason it's called the Twilight Zone Accident, not the Twilight Zone Incident.

Le and Chen were being paid under the table to circumvent California's child labor laws, which did not permit children to work at night. Landis opted not to seek a special waiver, either because he did not think he would get permission for such a late hour or because he knew he would never get approval to have young children as part of a scene with a large number of explosives. The casting agents were unaware that the children would be involved in the scene. Associate producer George Folsey, Jr. told the children's parents not to tell any firefighters on set that the children were part of the scene, and also hid them from a fire safety officer who also worked as a welfare worker.

I wish you had died in that film instead Max

How come you don't tweet anymore bud?

nobody cared about those kids, nobody cares about anyone.
Live.

is he referring to his father, John "I Can't" Landis?

Off the meds again, are we Max?

>My mother, pregnant with me at the time, sat in court and watched my father for months be abandoned by EVERY professional friend in the industry because no one wanted to be associated with this tragedy.
Yeeeeeaaaah, No. Even Orson Welles wrote in his book that John Landis was a bloody sociopath that acted like going to court for killing kids was no big deal. And when you creep out old Orson Welles that says a lot.

It's a copypasta, newfriends

Well, I'm sure John Landis received a considerable prison sentence for these flagrant violations of child safety and labor laws... oh, wait, he wasn't even convicted.

no fucking shit

Not only that, but read the My Lunches with Orson book. Orson tells how John Landis (who Orson refers to as "that asshole from Animal House, a real shit") and George Folsey BOTH called Orson on the very day they were indicted over the Vic Morrow incident, to give him unsolicited "dumb" advice on a project they were producing and trying to get him to direct. Neither of them were very concerned with going to prison for manslaughter at all and weren’t bothered about the situation.

I'm sorry, what is your father's name again?

I also can't understand, Max. Jews are great people

Oh fuck off, if anything it's the fire safety officer's fault.

I mean, it's not like Landis deliberately hid the children's involvement in the stunt from the fire safety officer and firefighters on set cause they would never agree to allowing children to participate in such a reckless and dangerous stunt- oh wait...

Stunt safety isn't the responsibility of the director. Even if he demanded more dangerous action, he isn't qualified to know what is and isn't within the acceptable levels of risk. its not fair to hold him responsible for an accident that was ultimately a result of poor safety standards.

why is this board so fixated on this nobody

See:

It's OC. Max is here.

max you seem nice but weird. cheer up

"Lower" - John Landis

>Stunt safety isn't the responsibility of the director. Even if he demanded more dangerous action, he isn't qualified to know what is and isn't within the acceptable levels of risk.

You are very very dumb, this is every very wrong.
You could have saved yourself this retarded post, but you decided to pretend you know anything about the movie industry instead. How sad.

Sup Forums is the problem and not the entire social media lynch mob mentality that is Twitter.

Really, Max.

He's an obnoxious narcissist cunt who owes his Hollywood career to his child-murdering father.

what hollywood career