General Chat

He already knew it was Remembrance Day.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/2013/11/12/12/58/director-apologises-for-nazi-filming-outrage

The apology is (in my opinion) too little, too late!

The film company will be making a huge profit, so perhaps a donation to an appropriate charity would help with the "apology".

Well what else was he to do ?
There is no law that on 11 November all commercial life shall stop, even for 2 minutes.

Making movies cannot be done on the spur of the moment. Somebody issued the licence a good long time back and would have been aware of the potential conflict. Maybe some bureaucrat was unware of anything special about 11 Nov.

Making real movies still costs a fortune and is still very dependent on the light and weather for location shots. The weather was good, the forecast terrible.
Producers and directors who don't get their film in the can on time on budget tend not to be asked around again. Most movies fail to make a profit even with household names.

The regrets are in order though and given the costs of stopping filming on the day a cheque for several thousand pounds to the village would be in order.

I mentioned this on the 'Absolutely Disgraceful' thread yesterday. By midday local radio was reporting that letters had gone out to the villagers stating that filming would not be done yesterday (11th).

Obviously felt the bad publicity in the press was more important than the feelings of the Parish Councils who had, on behalf of the locals, requested that the Film company respected Remembrance Sunday.

It could be interpreted as a tribute to those who died in conflict.

Surely by giving their today for our tomorrow they sacrificed their own lives so that ours could go on as normal.

I have seen war memorials with requests not to sit on them out of respect but , before they became members of that anonymous body of souls known collectively as "the dead " they were all vital young people who would have gathered in just such a spot to enjoy the lives they sacrificed.

The only photo of my Uncle Will, who died in WW1 is of him & his friends sitting on the very spot, (opposite the village pub) that is now the war memorial that bears some of their names.

A one day break in filming would surely have hurt the filming company & the casts presence at the memorial service could have been a good piece of PR/advertising for the film.