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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to IMDB Julie Bloom seemed to move very slowly through the ranks.

She has been a 2nd AD since 1986 but didn't get a 1st AD role until 2000 on a TV series. She then worked as a 1st AD on small budget films. She had her first 1st AD for larger film in 2002 for Men in Black - for a unit only and then didn't get that position again until 2013 for The Wolf on Wall Street and Annie in 2014 (both for a unit). In between she worked more TV shows and small films.  Since then she has again been working TV shows and small films. It seems she does well on a specific type of set but isn't getting promoted or rehired easily after working on bigger sets[/quote]

+1, she's a role player and has a good long resume and is clearly well liked by those she works with because she gets rehired.

1st AD is a huge role. On a major film, it's a massive undertaking -- it is how many directors get their start. It is the one person who interacts with nearly everyone on set, because they are the liaison between the director and all department heads, plus they work closely with actors and producers as well. Everyone leans on the 1st AD. If you've ever worked on a major theater production, it's akin to the stage manager -- their job is to know everything, to keep everyone on schedule, and to make sure everyone has what they need to do their job. They have to manage up and down well and have exceptional attention to detail.

Also, having seen IEWU, there are a lot of components that would have made the 1st AD role more important and challenging. Specifically, there are number of big crowd scenes, both indoors and outdoors, on location, shot from multiple angles with multiple elements. For a non-action film, that's about as tough as it gets because of the moving parts involved, having to wrangle the extras, and dealing with the difficulty of shooting indoors on location for a move that has a pretty stylized look, which requires a lot of work from the production design teams and crew to get it to look how you want on camera. It can be tough to keep scenes like that on schedule due to the technical requirements, but also the schedule is critical because the more cast you have in a scene, the less of a window you have (you must always be aware of turn around time for main cast, as well as potential cost overruns associated with keeping extras late to finish a crowd scene).

Also compounding this is the fact that Baldoni was a green director. Yes he had two features under his belt but much smaller movies -- tiny budgets with limited sets/locations (one was just filmed and and around a hospital, yes?) and much smaller casts. Making the leap from that sort of movie to something with this budget and a lot more complications, he needed someone with a lot of experience making specifically this kind of movie. I totally get why Bloom wasn't a good fit. And that's not a knock on Bloom. I just think she was an odd choice for 1st AD for the specific circumstances of this movie. [/quote]

lol, more blather from the Blake bot.  All to distract from the paucity of any evidence of sexual harassment of Blake.

FWIW, your attempts to discredit Bloom’s work history are pathetic.  So much for support women.[/quote]

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