Ozzy Onya A2Z
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A real life greater good speech. Most people aren't capable of just that, nice to hear it in practice.
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Tom Cruise goes off on filming crew over not following COVID precautions
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SLoWMoTIoN
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Is he still in the closet and in a cult?
highrider
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Ima cut Tom some slack because he’s a fucking legend. And if the entertainment press is to be believed, he’s well known for treating even the lowliest crew members very well, knowing their names, asking about their families. Hard to fake that completely. Often people with huge egos ( Trump comes to mind as well ) are still capable of being selfless and endearing. The flip being they can go off as as well, he’s clearly a crazy bastard, I like him 
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nush
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He was being loud and using them as an example so the whole crew would hear, notice he gets more chill at the end.
MetalAlien
Banned
Hey Tom!
Punished Miku
Banned
And people forget sometimes, he's not just a diva actor. He's the producer, and is basically running all major decisions on virtually any film he's involved in. He's dealing with the studios, investors, regulators.Ima cut Tom some slack because he’s a fucking legend. And if the entertainment press is to be believed, he’s well known for treating even the lowliest crew members very well, knowing their names, asking about their families. Hard to fake that completely. Often people with huge egos ( Trump comes to mind as well ) are still capable of being selfless and endearing. The flip being they can go off as as well, he’s clearly a crazy bastard, I like him
CrapSandwich
former Navy SEAL
This is pretty interesting all the people siding with him without any context other than him sounding like an abusive cult leader. Authoritarian-GAF out in force.
poodaddy
Member
One thing I learned in the Army:. Sometimes your boss will absolutely tear you a new asshole if you fuck up, mainly because he knows that if his boss saw that fuck up, then you'd be getting the entire goddamn platoon fucked up, hell sometimes the company, maybe even the goddamn battalion! A good boss gives you the business, not because he's a dick, but because he knows you can be better, and he's disciplining to pull that out. Not much different than parenting honestly.
Master of Disguise
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A lot of people don't understand just how many people's livelihoods depend on the film industry ticking along. Yes, there is Hollywood accounting bullshit. But every film employs a small army of people. That's where the budget, or a big chunk of it, goes. It's why filmmakers want to shoot movies in their native country to help the economy. A single screwup, and those people aren't getting paid. Cruise is heated, but he's heated because one screwup, and it's not some rich producer who's suffering. It's not him suffering. It's the set builders and caterers and costumers and makeup people and extras and so many others who have their livelihoods in danger -- and frankly, their health is in danger, too -- because someone couldn't follow simple rules designed to keep risk as low as possible.
It's no different to stuntmen. When people's lives are at risk, you follow the rules. You don't take shortcuts if those shortcuts can get other people injured. That's what separates the good directors from the irresponsible ones. That's why it's one thing for a stuntman to fully voluntarily perform a solo stunt. It's quite another to perform a stunt that puts others at risk. You have to think about the welfare of everyone involved in this production. It's not a game.
It's no different to stuntmen. When people's lives are at risk, you follow the rules. You don't take shortcuts if those shortcuts can get other people injured. That's what separates the good directors from the irresponsible ones. That's why it's one thing for a stuntman to fully voluntarily perform a solo stunt. It's quite another to perform a stunt that puts others at risk. You have to think about the welfare of everyone involved in this production. It's not a game.
QuantumZebra
Member
This.
People talking shit need to take a look at pro sports right now.
Regardless of your opinions on COVID; one positive test can cost people jobs and thousands if not millions of dollars.
Agreed.
I will *never* fault a businessperson / owner / producer for taking the precautions they feel are necessary, and getting pissed when people don't respect them.
If a store says "masks required" - I'm wearing a mask when I go inside, because I'm not a piece of shit.
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MetalAlien
Banned
I would have to love that job a lot to take that kind of abuse and not spike him like a football.
Tesseract
Banned
i wouldn't stand for it either, not at the level he displayed
bitch slap the fuck outta him, cool his head so he can get across the same points without sounding like he just came off the edge of tomorrow battlefield
MetalAlien
Banned
If it came to that level I heard in the audio I would be fired anyway because i'd have him in a headlock going around asking people "who's kid is this?"... so yea either way i'm fired.
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Foamy
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Meph. I've completely lost my shit like this before at work so I'm not going to judge him.
Tom's a strange cat sometimes but I'm bored with media/people always trying to cast him in a poor light.
Tom's a strange cat sometimes but I'm bored with media/people always trying to cast him in a poor light.
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MetalAlien
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Foamy
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It was actually a vending machine.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Furlong
Banned
Yes, you can tell he's lying when he shows concern for the little people who are losing their homes. It's a novel way of raising publicity though, I'll give him that.
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Foamy
Unconfirmed Member
Some people will also never learn until you blast them and they snap out of it.
Example- Had a guy who kept forgetting his access card to the plant. Every time that happens he's going to be late and someone has to go pick him up at the gate (wasted time). First time I didn't think twice about it. Second time I made a friendly joke about it.
Third time I lost my shit. Mind you this is the third time in a month or so.
We worked together for over a year after that. No hard feelings, no problems and no forgotten gate card again.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Even if you knew he's yelling at you because it's your fault you put the entire project at risk?
If you're not in the wrong, by all means push back, but if you fucked up, take the L and don't make that mistake again.
JimmyRustler
Member
Listened to the whole thing. He‘s totally right. Tom‘s the man.
Tesseract
Banned
Soodanim
Gold Member
This movie production will be entirely conditional at this point, so for 2 or 3 people being idiots and risking the whole thing being shut down deserve to be spoken to like children. He could have just fired them on the spot, but this warning to them and everyone else lets everybody know that he means what he’s saying. Doing it this way once could save having to fire more than 2 or 3 people.
You can be a bad motherfucker all you want, but you’d be a bad motherfucker without a job and the entire point is to keep 1000 people in a job.
Fixed for you.
MiyazakiHatesKojima
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CliffyB's Cock Holster
People need to understand bonded financing. Basically in that model if you slip, penalty payments accrue at insane rates.
Hedge-fund managers do not give a fuck about the art, they are all about the investment so they lock you down to ironclad delivery dates. This is why reshoots are so expensive, its not just the crew and cast payroll, its about servicing the debt.
Hedge-fund managers do not give a fuck about the art, they are all about the investment so they lock you down to ironclad delivery dates. This is why reshoots are so expensive, its not just the crew and cast payroll, its about servicing the debt.
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Red Crayon Aristocrat
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On one hand this is funny because it sounds like his Tropic Thunder character, on the other hand it's not funny because he isn't acting and he sounds like my dad when he loses his temper (Cruise is 2 years older than my dad), you don't wanna piss guys of that age group off!
It's never pleasant when someone loses their cool but Cruise is right to be angry.
It's never pleasant when someone loses their cool but Cruise is right to be angry.
CrankyJay™
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I agree with Tom. I love him, Scientology and all.
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