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producers shaft the 'real' makers of the film?

posted 18 years ago by grant_mcphee
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check out this article by the cameraman.

http://www.imago.org/main/public_html/_htm_news/2007/n35.htm

[–] kordulita 17 years ago

I was just about to write a new thread "Luc Jacquet, how did you do it?" when I came across your link and read the article. What a sad and upsetting story! Can a producer and "director" (Jacquet doesn't seem to deserve that title) really be that mean?

While I was watching this great documentary, the amazing behaviour of these animals, I couldn't help but constantly think of the filming "crew" (I didn't know at the time that the camerman had been left alone!!)in that harsh environment. I wondered how they could live there for such a long time, in the middle of nowhere, facing constant danger (blizzards, freezing cold, breaking ice, and God knows what else). And how could they film the penguins under water? And a lot more... I thought the director and his crew had done a terrific job and deserved huge rewards.

It turns out - according to that article - that the cinematographer did the whole job more or less alone, but was cheated out of all the credits. He wasn't even paid a decent salary for doing this extraordinary and dangerous work. It is absolutely outrageous.

Cinematographer LAURENT CHALET must win the lawsuit - if there is just a tiny bit justice left in this world.

[–] The_Royal_Raggedy_Fairy 17 years ago

That article is horrible... there are so many low life people out there and its such a shame that that man didn't get the recognition he deserves for filming such wonderful scenes.

[–] kevincoughlan 17 years ago

Please remember that article is only one side of the story. The guy very clearly got a cinematography credit and he's featured in the "Of Penguins and Men" documentary as well, which implies that it was only the two of them that went to Antarctica and shot the film. No mention of the director being. Plus he won a BAFTA for his contribution to this film. How much more recognition does he want?

[–] The_Royal_Raggedy_Fairy 17 years ago

I don't know really, I just know that lately I seem to keep reading about, seeing on TV and also seeing in real life things that is making me lose faith in the human race... I don't know if that makes sense, but there are a lot of selfish people out there willing to scr.ew other people over to make themselves look or feel better. I keep seeing and reading things that make me believe there are a hell of a lot of men out there with no respect for women and want to humiliate them, that no one cares about anyone anymore, you can't walk into a railway station without someone shoving hard past you for no real reason other than them getting to the escalator first, or sticking their elbows into you on the tube so they can read their newspaper while everyone else is pressed up against each other, even bus drivers are at it... I've run the whole way down the road to my bus stop on many occassions waving my arm for it to stop (in clear view of the bus driver who is driving towards me) for the bus driver to smirk and not even slow down! Its like they get a bit of sick pleasure from it.

(Now I know I've gone off topic a bit here and I'm not a feminist or anything like that at all and I'm not old or a lonely weirdo... I'm just a normal person who knows there are bad things in the world, but lately have been shocked at how horrible people can actually be...

So thats the reason I wrote what I wrote about how the story is horrible... I'd like to know the other side of the story, but it just seems terrible to me that he put all that work in and made a beautiful film and then didn't get the recognition that he felt he deserved. I know Hollywood is cutthroat and all that, but its sad.