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About the biggest thing to hit this town since we have lived here was being one of the locations for the filming of several scenes of the Tim Burton movie Big Fish. They put out a call for extras, and I was fortunate enough to be selected.
If you EVER have a chance be in a movie I would highly recommend it. The hours were tough, and the pay for extras was minimum wage (but hey, it was a paid gig so I was a ‘professional’ actor… albeit briefly)
We showed up at the buttcrack of dawn for a trip through wardrobe and makeup, then would assemble at the site where the scene was to be shot. I ended up in 3 different scenes on 3 different days. It was a lot of standing around and milling around, but really a lot of fun overall. Plus we ate like kings.
How about you? Ever been in a movie, or tread the boards in the theater?
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Big fan. I remember when it came out on video, I doubted it’s appeal, and then I could not take my eyes off the screen. I watched it straight through again and then again. There’s a subterranean element to life that this movie captures, one that likely only comes forth through intimate, considerate, vulnerable honesty.
I was an extra in “Singles”. The club scene with Alice In Chains playing the song “Would”. I only wound up there because one of the Alice guys called me and said to come to this warehouse. They basically snuck me in, snagged me an all access bracelet, and I spent most of the time in the trailer drinking with the boys. I am in the crowd for the scene, but if you blink you’ll miss me.
@Pony V cool! So how do you know the band?
@Pony oh my god I love Singles. How fun!! I’m jeal.
@tinamarie1974 Born and raised in Seattle. Hung out with a lot of the bands. I worked at one of the clubs that had live shows, and I used to have massive after hours parties at my house.
OK, THAT was a bust. Maybe this will be better.
My second favorite movie. But no, I’ve never been in any myself.
I was at the Metrodome when they were filming a scene for Little Big League. They tried to spread out the very sparse attendance to make it look like a packed house. All I remember was somebody coming out to the field who we were supposed to cheer loudly, and we must have gotten it done because I don’t recall it taking long
And of course I blanked on the fact that my wife was one of the trick-or-treating little kids in Hocus Pocus, as they filmed that in her hometown.
@guyfromhawthorn Way cool!
I was at the 2004 World Series Game 4 when the Red Sox basically wiped the floor with the Cardinals, and broke “The Curse”. It was also being filmed for some of the final scenes for Fever Pitch, with Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon.
Growing up in New Orleans, lots of movies have been filmed there, and it’s kind of fun seeing people in one place and then walk outside and they’re across town all of a sudden. Oh, and it’s always Mardi Gras, or a second line, it seems. Hint: it’s not.
@mike808 yeah… “artistic license” means they can bullshit you with impunity! Those kind of things drive my wife CRAZY…
@chienfou It doesn’t drive us crazy, its more a game of “spot the continuity problem”. We know the scenes were shot in completely different locations, but the movie or show makes it seem like they’re next door or across the street. Kind of funny to us, more than annoying.
Some examples: The Pelican Brief, Chasing Amy, Interview with a Vampire.
@chienfou @mike808
In this scene, the house and the lake are both around Salzburg, but in completely different locations. So Andrews and Plummer had to shoot the scene repeatedly in two different locs, and Andrews had to get soaked both times for it.
Also in the LOTR series, the Moira gate scene and the dead marshes scenes were shot, I think, on the same loc. I think a converted parking lot?
And a rock quarry was used for Helm’s Deep and for at least one other shooting loc. I forget which. Maybe Minas Tirith?
At least, for these, they built and dressed sets.
This Vasquez Rocks formation is common among so many Star Trek planets
Something about sub atomic particles I guess.
Or, it’s those crazy filmmakers. If it looks good, they’re using it.