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Is anyone watching the bridge on more 4?

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TheDevilWearsPrimark · 12/02/2008 22:30

Very sad, but a biy odd.

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TheDevilWearsPrimark · 12/02/2008 22:31

biy bit obviously

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notnowbernard · 12/02/2008 22:32

No, I did agonise though...

Shameless won

Hasn't let me down

Hoping to catch the Bridge on catch-up

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TheDevilWearsPrimark · 12/02/2008 22:35

ah I saw shameless on e4 last week, so am a week ahead so will watch it on e4+1 tonight if I'm still up

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TheDevilWearsPrimark · 12/02/2008 22:36

god I confused myself with that post.

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notnowbernard · 12/02/2008 22:41

What a classic

Is the bridge worth watching though?

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lottiejenkins · 13/02/2008 08:55

If it is the film of The Bridge you were watching about an artist, my dad was involved in that film!

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Joekate · 13/02/2008 12:20

Found it very sad but strangely facinating that you could see the people they were talking about. Missed the beginning - do they have some sort of CC camera just looking for jumpers? Don't think I'd fancy that job much!

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lottiejenkins · 13/02/2008 12:34

Ah not the film my father was involved with then........... sorry!

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TheDevilWearsPrimark · 14/02/2008 14:01

Joekatethey don't he fimlmed it just to make a documentary about suicides. I found these interesting points on wikipedia

Steel interviewed relatives of the suicide victims, deliberately neglecting to reveal that he had footage of their loved ones' deaths. He claimed that "All the family members now, at this point, have seen the film, [and are] glad that they had participated in it."[2]

The project was kept a secret in order to avoid someone who would "get it into his or her head to go to the bridge and immortalize him or herself on film." During the filming, one person jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge every 15 days on average.[3]Assuming that the rate remains steady, this means a total of approximately 24 suicides each year.

The documentary caused significant controversy when Eric Steel revealed that he had tricked the Golden Gate Bridge committee into allowing him to film the bridge for months and had captured 23 of 24 known suicides which took place during the filming phase of the project. In his permit application to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area Steel said he intended "to capture the powerful, spectacular intersection of monument and nature that takes place every day at the Golden Gate Bridge"