Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Watch that last step

Officials at the Golden Gate Bridge are angry that a filmmaker who spent a year shooting the bridge ended up with footage of more than a dozen jumpers. They say he misled them about his intent, but nowhere does the article say that the filmmaker deliberately misled them. Maybe he just changed his conception of the film in the middle of the project.

Most ridiculous is the line at the end of the story where a bridge official frets "He could have taken pictures of the underside of the bridge!" Hey, two dozen tourist boats go under that bridge every day, and every one of those hundreds of tourists takes a picture of the underside of the bridge. So does everyone who visits Fort Point. Is he kidding?

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