I would love to see it changed... As a suggestion, if you don´t want to call it after Bruce, you can call it after the legendary actor, director, and stuntman Buster Keaton...
Again, that prioritizes the stuntmen over the other programs.
- I'm pretty sure you yourself said within your first post and many times earlier that the business would be so we would train the next generation of stuntmen and action stars, basically to allow movies like the Matrix and John Wick to exist. This helps to provide for action teaching, and I don't see why it would be stuntwork when everything can be attributed to action.
The business was designed from the ground up to train the next generation of practical effects, that's why whenever the topic was brought up I was emphasizing this fact, that it's meant to grow into the new standard for safety on set, which is
not exclusive to the stuntmen.
- Martial Arts movies are action movies so it falls under the brand. Stuntwork is all action so it falls under the brand. Conditioning and Exercise are action, you don't go to a gym if you want to star in romance or comedy movies. Craftsman and survival training make you a man or woman of action. Literally everything here falls under the action brand of film.
And yet Martial Arts and Stuntwork are both the
same program, and have less of an impact on the over all goal of the Gymnasium.
Conditioning and Exercise was meant to also get the crew in shape, and attract the attention of physical trainers, Olympians, athletes and so on, so that we can increase our revenue streams outside of the industry.
Craftsman and Survival Training isn't meant to be taken by the actors [though they can join if they'd like], it's meant primarily for the film crew, location managers,
and the prop department, who are there to ensure the rest of the crew is comfortable when filming in less than hospitable locations.
Not to mention, as
@Schehera Zade said, a big part of the project is to help
aid disenfranchised children, and not get them wrapped up in the same problems as the child actors who were worse off, that the only value they have to us is to become part of the industry.
- We need to start putting our name with our brand. Everything we currently have right now is tied to someone else's name, most especially Lucasfilms. I want this Gym, which if it is as critical as it is to the future of action, to be tied to the name of Bruce O'Brian to leave a strong legacy of cinema as well as so when several people make it big in action, they think of Bruce O'Brian.
If you want
@Orion Ultor , I can just name it "Bruce O'Brian Gymnasium and Community Center". Basically we are a pretty badass YMCA that helps out kids, provides a place to work out, and trains action stars.
While that's better name, that still holds all the same problems as previously mentioned [that it has a branding issue of giving the appearance of "actors and stuntmen above the rest of the film crew and practical effects department", and [just noticed this] happens to place our name as being more important than our late master's, which just looks tacky given it hasn't
even been two years since his death.
Yeah unfortunately there's one major problem with this. The lot we own is within Beverly Hills, an Elitist suburb of LA with all of the high profile movie stars and entertainment figures along with several high class businesses. No way in hell the Beverly Hills City Council or any other municipality organizations would want to ruin their elite image with a low-income housing development. I'd much rather we just buy land in LA or renovate an existing development.
So what I'm hearing is that, instead of spiting all these people who have quite literally tried burning us on
multiple occasions and tried making our lives miserable from everything such as Bruce being an "upstart" and (
Word of Magoose) Catholic, who are currently at their weakest we'll likely see them for a while after burning most of their favor capital during the months long strikes, you don't want to stick it to the man and actually help the people who are struggling as the result of those strikes while we profited?
What I'm saying is: I'll take those odds.
