What's a Freevee?it’s IMDB TV’s new nameyou know, like the CPE
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 07:53 (one year ago) link
wait, CPAJeff’s branding is impeccable
"The Rehearsal" was largely mask-free, but masks did pop up now and then among the crew (when revealed) and sometimes background actors or brief appearances from other characters. I don't know what union rules/filming regulations are right now, but I still see lots of behind the scenes promo shots of films/shows where the cast/crew is masked. Like these:
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Our shoot on Instagram/Our shoot on twitter pic.twitter.com/mjaArmR5Vw— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) August 22, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 12:12 (one year ago) link
I don't know what union rules/filming regulations are right now, but I still see lots of behind the scenes promo shots of films/shows where the cast/crew is masked.
I'm adjacent to a lot of this and it's a miracle itself that AMPTP, DGA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, Teamsters, and Basic Crafts unions could agree on any kind of basic covid protocols w.r.t. vaccination and masks. The current agreements expire on October 31 and I doubt they'll be renewed again. For the most part it's working but constantly under the threat of hair-trigger clusterfucks. Movie stars who refuse to be vaccinated but have pull to keep from being re-cast. Various "normalization of deviance" behaviors to cut costs.
My favorite story was a production/super-spreader event that infected several dozen people with omicron just before everyone went home to their families for Thanksgiving (and in turn infecting dozens more). The person who infected everyone on set? The covid safety officer.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 25 August 2022 02:38 (one year ago) link
Thats brilliantly fucked up.
Movie stars who refuse to be vaccinated but have pull to keep from being re-cast
Would loovvvveee to know who those cunce are.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 25 August 2022 05:51 (one year ago) link
Some names named in this article from October 2021https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/covid-vaccine-mandate-hollywood-1235026178/
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 25 August 2022 11:01 (one year ago) link
Finally saw "Worst Person in the World," and, yeah, ends with people in masks (with no commentary).
Have been playing the "Spider-man" video game, and even though it came out in 2018 there are stretches of everyone wearing surgical masks around NYC because of an airborne respiratory contagion, which is just a weird coincidence.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 4 September 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
Reading the surprise fifth book in Dave Hutchison's Fractured Europe Sequence, one of the near-future events of the earlier books was a global flu pandemic. It's back in flashbacks and there is so much mask and lockdown talk, many asides about stupid Americans refusing to social distance and dying by the bushel.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 20 November 2022 06:34 (one year ago) link
(also would recommend the series if you're into Gibson and Le Carre)
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 20 November 2022 06:36 (one year ago) link
I only learned this existed a week ago, ordered it immediately.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 20 November 2022 11:37 (one year ago) link
Died Suddenly is the newest antivax crap trending right now
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/11/22/new-died-suddenly-film-pushes-unfounded-depopulation-claims-about-covid-19-vaccine
― StanM, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
"Glass Onion" !
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 November 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
Must be close to two years since I've posted in a Covid-related thread...The third season of The Morning Show is the most pointed attempt I've seen to document the first few months of the pandemic. It's a flashback episode meant to fill in the gap between the end of S2--where Jennifer Aniston's character comes down with the virus and does her show remotely--and S3, which takes place present day.
It's not great, but it did more or less capture the strangeness of that time.
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 February 2024 23:50 (one month ago) link
I'm trying to think if I've seen any other recreation of those early days in pop culture.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 February 2024 23:55 (one month ago) link
I see a lot of books--non-fiction, not popular culture--but it'll be a while before I'm ready to read a book on that year, if ever.
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 February 2024 00:14 (one month ago) link
From upthread:
Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn is set in the present day, and it’s a MASSIVE RELIEF to finally see a film or TV thing in which mask-wearing is completely normal, right down to a non-masker losing their rag at a supermarket checkout person, and people at a parent-teacher conference fiddling with their masks while speaking, or getting tsked for dicknosing.― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Friday, January 21, 2022 4:07 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Friday, January 21, 2022 4:07 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Really catches the awkwardness of social distancing too.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 February 2024 00:37 (one month ago) link
^^"Present Day": Spring/Summer 2020
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 February 2024 00:41 (one month ago) link
Drive My Car and Worst Person In The World both end with scenes set in the mask-wearing present without the scripts needing to comment on it.― symsymsym, Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Saw both of those, and the not-commenting was interesting; COVID was just a part of life. in The Morning Show, it's an unfolding story (interrupted by other stories: Jan. 6, Roe, etc.).
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 February 2024 02:44 (one month ago) link