Witnessing The Politics of The Film Business First Hand
Jul 15th, 2009 by Alan Yu
Recently while working on set it was a pretty small group of people. One thing that happened was that the scene was potentially a physically demanding one where the performer could possibly get an upgrade as a result of it. Usually in these types of situations the director would say randomly pick someone on the spot.
It was interesting as the person that was in charge of managing us was saying quietly with another group of people on how she wanted to strategically place them in the scene in certain spots in hopes that they would get a better chance of being upgraded. That just made me think how it’s all about who you know many times as like in this case it wasn’t so much about who is more qualified or has the more ideal look but rather who the person in charge liked more personally.
In many ways you can say that’s just business too as this type of thing happens in virtually every industry. I thinking the film business it plays even a larger role.
