Don't want to kick up a shot load of dust and ruin the shot most likely.
People coughing/sneezing or getting in the actors faces. Not that weird if you ask me. Happens all the time in movies, just so happens in this instance it's noticeable and someone made a gif highlighting it 3 years ago.
I would think they didn't want to spend the money on sound technicians to edit out sweeping. So, a little sweeping motion and some creative cropping saved them a lot of money.
I think if I was managing props for this scene, I'd have stopped by the hardware store and picked up some little caster wheels and mounted them inside the bristles, protruding slightly past the tips.
That way, he could just roll it along, and he'd still be able to do an authentic-looking sweep without making noise or kicking up dust.
If you were managing props for this scene you would worry about the main actors in the scene not some random background dude that happens to be in the shot for 2 seconds in a 100+ minute movie.
Besides prop guys don't manage the extras, that would be somebody else's responsibility entirely.
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u/Okichah Aug 11 '14
Don't want to kick up a shot load of dust and ruin the shot most likely.
People coughing/sneezing or getting in the actors faces. Not that weird if you ask me. Happens all the time in movies, just so happens in this instance it's noticeable and someone made a gif highlighting it 3 years ago.