berlitz23
11th December 2009, 17:46
I am making an anti-capitalist film and decided to shoot in the downtown of my city, honing in one particular place. It is a main strip mall comprised of several shops, a movie theater, bowling alley etc. and audiovisual advertisements, which I was going to shoot especially. Anyways, I begin shooting and a security officer tells me I can't shoot here, and all the time previous i shot here noone said anything to me. This whole strip was 'private property' and I said that 'it was ridiculous' I was just filming for my film class, and he started getting hostile, so i walked away and made a mistake by saying 'fuck capitalism' and he demanded i came back and he's like what did you say? I reinforced it was absolutely inane that I couldn't shoot here, and he 'no it's not it's private property, "they" get to choose who they want on their property", and then he was beginning to call security for backup. Anyways, It was probably inane for me to say 'fuck capitalism', but honestly is there somewhat an oxymoron here, if it is ostensibly 'private property' because wouldn't that preclude people from coming onto the strip, because they are trespassing? It might not be a very good argument but can someone explain to me why in greater detail I cannot shoot buildings I know government is understandable, but it sounds like everyone i go it is off-limits.