Forum - View topicNEWS: Attack on Titan Stage Play Cancelled
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*...Ame to Yuki...*
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The right thing to do.
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mrsatan
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What ever happened to "The show must go on"?
This is dumb. |
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belvadeer
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Kadmos1, looks like they did what you said you'd do if it were your show.
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Greed1914
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Considering they are still looking into what happened, I can't blame them. If it happened again, they would be in serious trouble. |
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Hiroki not Takuya
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^I agree, when people say you should be willing to die for your art, I doubt they mean it literally. Get that ODM gear checked soldier! Ouch!
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AsuraTheDestructor
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At least they were smart enough to do so unlike the people that kept trying to make a Broadway Spider-Man play until they finally had enough accidents to stop.
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KENZICHI
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While they investigate a serious accident that cost someone their life? Not dumb at all. |
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Mr. Oshawott
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Good thing they decided to call the show off as a result from this tragic moment. No work is worth dying for, even live-action.
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Suena
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According to the other article, he was considered "Japan's top male aerial performer." If even the best of the best couldn't survive the setup, how are less-experienced performers supposed to be safe? |
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Zin5ki
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Well, chaps. You could say that these production plans went the way of the Titan-ic...
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hikura
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I could understand stopping the show until the investigation is over.Then fixing any problems.But straight up cancelling it seems odd.
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leafy sea dragon
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Yeah. It'd also be in extremely bad taste to continue the performances after a key acrobat had died. And since it happened due to the stunt equipment, the other acrobats would probably be too frightened to keep going. So if anything, it'd be dumb to just go on like as if the death never happened. I mean, when Abraham Lincoln was shot, it's not like the other actors just continued going as normal. The phrase "The show must go on" does not mean the actors must stop caring about anything that happens no matter how dire. It means that it's an actor's job to entertain the viewers.
Not to make light of the situation, but even Sesame Street mocked that mercilessly.
Well, now that the death is public, people are going to know this play as "The one where Japan's best acrobat died." That's going to kill sales. They might as well euthanize this play now. |
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GeorgeC
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That was my first thought, too. This wire stuff is dangerous. Staging flying like Superman is hard enough but when you have people moving up and down on wires well, like Spider-Man, you're just inviting trouble with physics and the wire set ups! The human body just isn't made for abrupt stops much more than a few feet (3-4ft; 10 ft+ is pushing into potentially lethal zone; if you're lucky, you'll only break a limb if you fall 20 ft). People die on movie sets fairly infrequently for the most part. But more often than not when there's accident, it usually involves a stunt higher up on-set or something that involves wires. I can remember over 10 years ago (2002 by Internet search) that a fairly well-known actor from the old Kevin Sorbo Hercules TV series passed away on a set. The actor's name was Kevin Smith (no relation to the director, they just share the same name!), best known for playing the role of Ares on that series and Xena. It wasn't a set from the movie he was starring in! He was just visiting another movie set while he was waiting for his ride back to his hotel. He climbed a prop tower, lost his footing and fell 3 stories. He never woke up from his coma and passed away 10 days later in a hospital. Never underestimate the hazards on a set. They're generally temporary and not always the most permanent, stable structures. Read enough of the behind-the-scenes stories of your favorite movies and TV series and you realize people have had tons of close calls on-set! |
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EricJ2
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The same thing that happened in OUR country when actors on Broadway's Spiderman musical took "Break a leg" too seriously. And I'm not sure about Japanese stage unions, but I'm pretty sure they're not our stage unions. Spiderman came back retooled with a few less dangerous stunts, and managed to live down its reputation (including the fact that it wasn't very good), but with more chance for Japanese outcry for "Irresponsible" treatment of actors on an anime-related production, Titan's producers felt it wiser to give in immediately. And if they can't retool the dangerous acrobatic stunt-effects out of the show, that may be it for the show. (It's probably also the reason why the Lord of the Rings musical, where half the cast is either on wires, on stilts, or climbing around on rotating rocks, ON stilts, never played NYC on-Broadway theaters. There's such a thing as asking for trouble.) |
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Kadmos1
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That was just cold. |
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