NEWS: Movie Studio Allegedly Douches Amputees for a Little Publicity

CELEB: Movie Studio Allegedly Douches Amputees for a Little Publicity

Some orphans from Africa accused Warner Bros of some serious douchebag behavior. For the filming for Leonardo DiCaprio’s film, Blood Diamond, the studio brought in twenty-seven orphaned amputees as extras for hospital scenes in the movie. Warner Bros promised to provide the kids with prosthetic limbs as part of their compensation for the appearances. Although filming wrapped in June, the children haven’t received their limbs yet.

When contact by The New York Post, a Warner Bros rep responded, "We're working on it." While studio assholes “work on it,” someone else stepped up to help the kids.

Way to go, Warner Brothers: another reason for us to hate large movie studios.

DiCaprio in a scene from The Blood Diamond.

With any luck the bad press will force WB to do something really huge for the kids there.

Maybe they were bad extras.

lol

but seriously, that is pretty heinous.

They were just following Mr. Burns school of though, I mean what are they gonna do? tell their parents?

and the west still treats africa like some colonial resource to be used & dumped at the first opportunity

That's fucking sick. This shit makes me so angry.

There's a special place in hell, and Warner Bros is driving the bus. Poor kids, to go through what they have and STILL have more disappointments to come.

We should all be thankful for the organizations driven by souls like Eastern Cape. Dollar-driven mega studios like the WB...there really just aren't words...

oh god thats sick. even Satan thinks thats low.

After following a bit of the press on it, I finally saw this trailer in the theatre recently. It's interesting that the diamond organizations worldwide have been pushing to have the film released AFTER Christmas, because they're worried about the financial fall-out to their industry. I say "interesting" because if the trailer is any indication, people will have forgotten about this film by the time they leave the theatre. Those same people who still drive gas-guzzling SUVs after being "horrified" by An Inconvenient Truth will buy diamonds the day after watching Blood Diamond.

Diamonds are only valuable because the industry says they are valuable. They are a dime a dozen in Africa. If we could look beyond our consumptive "American" ideals and stop buying diamonds there would be millions of human rights attrocities prevented and only a comparatively few "bummed-out" investors.

It's such a large result from such a small deed. Spread the word.

Diamonds are shit.

It's true, I do think that.

But they're so shiny!

another reason besides my hatred of lenny to not see this shitflic

publicity? can't anyone do anything without expecting anything in return? this is disgusting.

Sounds like something Hollywood would do.

Word.

I'm trying to find Eastern Cape on the net, to see about a donation, but my quick search on a slow computer is turning up next to nothing. Can anyone have any better luck? Thanks in advance.

That's actually a damn good idea. I also looked and all I could find out is that the Eastern Cape of South Africa is the poorest region in the country. No link to a Eastern Cape charity though =/ I'm thinking it's gonna be a tough find

So bad it's gotta be fabricated, right? Right?

If not, the word boycott comes to mind.

So Warner Bros. is basically telling us, "Go see this movie, or else these poor kids in Africa are up shit's creek." Classy.

It's funny that this is the point of the movie. Disenfranchising Africans in extreme ways.

"listen kids isnt it enough you guys are gonna be in the background in a WB movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio? right on

By the way, in case anyone wants to write them a complaint, their corporate address is:

Warner Bros. Entertainment Company
4000 Warner Blvd., Bldg. 505
Burbank, CA 91505