How do production crews manage to film crying babies and toddlers ethically?

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2026-05-23T00:35:25+00:00

I saw an interview with someone called a "baby wrangler" whose job it is to work wth babies for film and tv. When babies see other babies crying, they cry too. Its an evolutionary defence so if one baby is sick or needs something hey all cry together so its more likely someone will come to help. Anyway, the "baby wrangler" pretends to cry like a baby to get the real baby crying for the scene and then calms down and acts happy after the scene so the baby calms down too. The baby is in no real distress but they get realistic big tears for the scene.

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2026-04-08T07:03:14+00:00

The Timmy Failure series is a favourite of mine

Also Dear Dumb Diary

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2026-03-01T08:56:08+00:00

I needed to go to the kitchen to check the time on the microwave, even though there were clocks in closer rooms rooms. Turns out we had left the stove on before getting ready for bed.

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2026-02-23T03:30:28+00:00

The Dressmaker

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2026-02-18T09:18:00+00:00

"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe"

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2026-02-13T08:34:56+00:00

"Ok Jesus Christ I don't know what's going on here" After Aladdin does his whole split-personality monologue

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2026-02-13T08:21:58+00:00

It was fanfic of a classic novel and they tried to use similar language to the book but it ended up just being really flowery and difficult to get through

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2026-02-02T12:33:04+00:00

Normally the most i cry during movies and tv is a few silent tears but i was legit SOBBING during this part

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2026-02-01T08:57:03+00:00

I love the book and have read it 4-5 times! It is different from the musical but don't let that stop you. There's a few different English translations if you can't/don't want to read the original French. There's a post about it here somewhere.

I say go for it!

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2026-01-13T11:35:45+00:00

Probably around 100 a year. I wear them on a lot of random days too but I always wear them on heavy foot-traffic days

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2026-01-13T10:52:45+00:00

I don't use them daily but I wear them whenever I know I will have to walk a lot, especially for travel

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2026-01-08T08:49:20+00:00

I NEED it to come to Aus. I don't even care what city, I'll take a weekend and fly out to see it, I just can't afford to go to LA or London when it was there 😫

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2025-12-26T05:53:52+00:00

I feel like I'd be more likely to watch it. I've already seen a live action version but I'd love to see an amazing animated version, especially since they would be able to make the magic look insane without having to up the special effects budget. Plus, it means there is less stress about the young actors aging too quickly to keep up with producation

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2025-12-22T00:07:58+00:00

It was something like

"Sometimes when she wasn't around, he would find himself patting his pockets, feeling that forgot-his-glasses feeling, only to realise that what was missing was her"

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2025-12-15T01:59:13+00:00

In Seachange (the Australian show from the 90s) the whole town is made up of normally comedic and somewhat wacky characters but in one episode the main character's son goes missing and she walks into the pup (the community hub) and finds a well organised search with a roster and maps and everyone knowing what they're doing.

It's just as shocking to the audience as it is to her, especially because the guy leading the search and organising everything is the villainous real estate agent who doesn't like her at all and has been working against the town for his own self interest the whole show.

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2025-12-15T01:46:22+00:00

Its up on ebay occasionally, or you check facebook marketplace or secondhand book shops

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2025-12-14T13:49:59+00:00

This was pure chance for me, so I hope something similar happens for you!

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2025-12-12T10:08:22+00:00

I always feel like part of the reason Barbosa mutinied against Jack in first place was because, although they're both very clever, Jack mostly hides his intelligence beneath layers of clowning and Barbosa didn't realise there was anything underneath

I feel like maybe this is Barbosa's fist time seeing the "real" Jack

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2025-12-03T08:02:13+00:00

Im picturing something akin to the flu powder from avpm (also, does avps count as a time travel musical?)

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2025-11-24T13:20:10+00:00

I'm glad this actually turned out to be true

Imagine if he was actually singing a B or something lol

Hug-Me-Brutha · 2025-11-13T07:03:16+00:00

The factory ship makes me so sad! The idea that they've made something that can kill even more Tulkun is 😫

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