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Not just the camera lens but there was protective gear aroound the camera men and the camera except for a 2"x2" space.
She was 30-40 feet away and three stories up. The director told her to shoot at the camera figuring she'd miss and they would CGI.
Instead she shot right into the camera lens and destroyed the camera.
I am shallow enough that I will forgive a lot of transgression for one expensive bullseye. And you can't really charge back for that--unless you bill the PR department?
Holy shit! I'd never heard that story before. Previous training or ridic lucky shot?
Just the training she'd had for the movie.
Okay, the Jessica Biehl shooting the camera thing is pretty awesome.
Also, I liked The Last Samurai, in spite of how ridiculous everything about Cruise's character in that movie is. Also a f*&k ton of Ken Watanabe and several of the other samurai characters in that movie make up for a surprising amount of Tom Cruise.
I walked out of that movie completely in love with every single Japanese actor, and Watanabe was divine. I don't dislike TC on screen, but that one I did have to suppress many eyerolls at yet another movie where the white dude adopts another culture and is also the only one who makes it out alive (that the camera seems to care about).
I think Watanabe could literally show up in a movie, not say a word and just flip words on cards in front of the camera, then leave and I would love that movie.
It does not take much for me and Watanabe.
I loved all the secondary and tertiary characters--aside from the wonderful Japanese actors, you had Peter Pettigrew in a serious role--in The Last Samurai. So much. I loved the locations and the sets (Middle Earth!), the costumes. The entire production went a very long way to making up for Tom Cruise. I just sort of watch with my thumb over him when he's onscreen. I want to watch a movie starring Watanabe about all those samurai characters--they were really the stars.
I think Watanabe could literally show up in a movie, not say a word and just flip words on cards in front of the camera, then leave and I would love that movie.
Word.
OMG, the ad for Pain & Gain just made me laugh out loud:
"Star-sixty-nine him"
"You want to have sex with him??"