Yeah but tell me when that many people work on a film that they aren’t giving it their all that they aren’t doing it because they love making films that it’s just a paycheck. Please tell me. Because every single interview I have ever seen with a film maker, and I’m taking everyone not just the director, they LOVE their jobs. It’s a job yes. But it’s more than that. I’m not on forums talking about phones or tuppaware or carpets. If i truly LOVED those things I wouldn’t be here. I’ve lost sleep when projects I’ve worked on have been shelved and that’s nothing compared to something of this scale.
I knew someone a while back who got her SAG card for a small part in a mainstream film because it was being shot in her state ( I guess the tax credits, etc, etc, made it more viable to do it there) She got a part like a lot of other locals, but they had to beat out like hundreds of other people to get that far. So her film's parent company got caught into one of these mergers/buyouts/whatever situations and the film was basically put on a shelf for two years.
So when she was still auditioning for parts, apparently it made it much harder for her since no one could see her part in a finished product. And that was her only screen credit. All the while she was living in LA, and spending time auditioning and trying to scrape by to survive out there.
You live in your small bubble of a small town or even a city, and maybe you were the one person who could sing and dance and were the great theater person, etc, etc, and then you get thrown into a big as pool of people who are also good looking, and can sing and dance and act and all that stuff.
I don't know if she got squeezed between the sides or not. Because I mean she made it further than many people ( she got a speaking part in a film and got her SAG card and that was enough to get an agent) But when things like this happen, someone is losing opportunity somewhere.
Chris Klein and Nick D'Agosto IIRC only have film careers or had them because they were actually students that Alexander Payne used when he filmed Election. Because it was a critically loved film and has some cult status, that gave them them the springboard to carve out a living. Ed Furlong from T2 was found at an arcade. He was just some kid. Imagine if he decided to spend that Saturday somewhere else?
There was a roundtable interview of comedians somewhere, and it was interesting, because all the people there were people that could be recognized in movies, comedies, TV shows, etc, and they all said there were lots of super talented people who didn't break through and they will never understand why.
In that regard, Batgirl is that bad timing in life for someone. Probably lots of unnamed people who needed a bit of a break. That's unfortunate.
I don't know if life is all about luck, but timing is a damn big deal in a lot of things. I'm pretty sure everyone here can list 2-3 times they should have died in a car wreck or gotten hurt badly if they did one thing different. Didn't hit the brakes or if they stepped one foot to the right, etc etc.
People get punished for things they can't control. That's a hard part of real life when you grow up and get tossed out into the real world. The dismissal isn't meant to be cruel, it's just that people have their own problems. I've got my own problems, I don't have time for anyone else's stuff. I wish no one ill will, I just don't have the energy for it.
Disappointment is very personal. Until it's not.
The things none of us really learned in college, right?
