[altgodkub]

I recently mentioned that one of my wife's cousins has a bit part in AutoFocus (Judy). This made me wonder how many of us have had some sort of brush with cinematic fame.

I had my 15 minutes (well more like 15 seconds) while I was in high school. Our marching band was chosen for a parade sequence in Cutter's Way with Jeff Bridges. If you know where to look and don't blink, you can see me brandishing my silver trumpet.

Actually, I got more fame from our local newspaper. They ran a front page photo of me sitting on the curb with a huge yawn along with a story about moviemaking being mostly about sitting around and waiting. And it was mostly that. It took three days to shoot a couple dialog scenes with a parade in the background. The good side was we got to miss three days of school.

Ironically, my love of movies seems to have originated from this tedious experience.

(I like the movie by the way. I think it's a real sleeper.)

[The Pro]

sweet. Cutters Way is one of my favourites. never had my 15 mins.

[Flotser]

Cutter's Way is excellent! "a toyota's a ****ty car anyway!"

I directed 2 short films, both made it to festivals, tha latest even went abroad (and i went along with it), which was fun. Of course, there's no market in it, so i'm doing something completely different now, filming (rarely) on the side.

Visited the (humongous) set of Le Roi Dance, which was a sobering experience (chaotic and a bad athmosphere). Never been in a film though.

[Nicole K.]

I've been in quite a few (as you all know)

[altgodkub]

Originally posted by Nicole K.
I've been in quite a few (as you all know)

So, do you have a favorite performance of yours? I can't decide between To Die For or Eyes Wide Shut. And just how uncomfortable was that nose?

[Isil'zha]

Originally posted by Flotser
Visited the (humongous) set of Le Roi Dance, which was a sobering experience (chaotic and a bad athmosphere). Never been in a film though.

Wow, I'm interested. (We watched the film at art class - my teacher would freak out if he'd hear this ). Would you say that the chaos and (especially) the bad atmosphere was caused by the nature, the feeling of the picture and/or by inadequacy of elements in the crew or cast? Or would it be a typically French/Belgian/European thing?

[altgodkub]

Originally posted by Flotser


I directed 2 short films, both made it to festivals, tha latest even went abroad (and i went along with it), which was fun.

That's cool! I'm also interested in hearing behind the camera type stories. My only experience in that sense was the year or so I spent forcing all my friends to appear in a series of Super-8 epics I shot while in my early twenties. Your experience is more big time.

I think my Cutter's Way experience (I'm glad others like the film too) affected me because it showed me the filmmaking process in its nuts and bolts. Something I'd never thought of before that. Our band was first arranged on a football field with three musicians per microphone as a sound crew recorded us playing the march that had been chosen for the scene by Jack Nitzsche. Then the parade was set up so we were marching around and around in a continuous oval. And what was especially funny to us all was that we were only pretending to be playing. It was explained to us that the music we'd recorded weeks earlier would be added in during the editing.

I found all this truly fascinating.

[Flotser]

Originally posted by Isil'zha
Would you say that the chaos and (especially) the bad atmosphere was caused by the nature, the feeling of the picture and/or by inadequacy of elements in the crew or cast? Or would it be a typically French/Belgian/European thing?

Well, we were only there for one shooting day, did a tour of the sets with Hubert Pouille, the production designer (who did a bang up job, as i'm sure you'll agree) and he said, that the general consensus was a crap screenplay. Everyone was unhappy about it, but too much money was on the line already and they were forced to go into production. Typical of europudding.

The most impressive set we saw was the king's opera house, where Lully and Molière gave their performances. A gigantic wooden set built in a former US army hangar and as luck had it they were shooting there at that time.
No one seemed very happy, no one was really talking, except the director, Gérard Corbiau, who would say something to his wife every now and then (apparently, he always shoots his films with his wife by his side). He invariably did about 4 takes of every shot and, from what i saw, he gave the actors completely different instructions every time. Maybe he didn't know what he was after.

Of course, what struck me the most was that this thing they were doing cost millions, involved a professional crew, took 2 months to film - i mean, you'd think it was supposed to run smoothly. it turned out to be quite the opposite, which spoiled my taste for moviemaking somewhat.

[dropthebaton]

A bunch of my friends were in The Waterboy.. they filmed it at the football stadium here in Orlando and let practically the whole town into the stands.

[Erich,]

Well, I worked on a film called Rave and was paidd in catered food. I was filmed loading a truck with another lacky, but I don't know if the scene made it into the finished product.

I am, however, listed on the IMDB for my work on the film. Amazingly, they even spelled my name right. Erich Schulte.

[Ectothermal Puppy]

I was never in a film. They said I was too beautiful for the public. I was, however, on the set of; Pearl Harbour, Windtalkers, Welcome to Collinwood, and American Splendor.

[kgaard]

I was a continuity extra on Leap of Faith, the Steve Martin film that was out for about 15 seconds back in '91. The cool thing was that the scene I was in appeared in the trailer, so when it was reviewed on Siskel & Ebert I was on there too. On the down side, I was supposed to be a midwestern hick at a revival, and boy did I pull it off. Yike. It was a lot of fun, though, and I got a lot of overtime (I think our longest day was 11-1/2 hours).

[TBickle]

In 6th grade, I co-wrote and co-starred in a 30-minute film called School Wars, a brilliant little story about a group of terrorists taking over a school. My friends and I all had double roles as terrorists and the heroes, so I got a real understanding of how difficult acting can be. Unfortunately we lost one of our co-stars halfway through production b/c his mom couldn't give him a ride to our off-school location and had to use a stand in for some scenes. It got tough at times but we worked hard and stayed out to the wee hours of the night (sometimes 5:30 or 6 at night - one of my friends almost missed dinner one time) but it all came together in the end. A solid group effort and some great experience in front and behind the camera made it more than worth the time. Of course, once we received a B+ on the film, I knew my career had ended. If I couldn't get an A on a film for 6th grade English class, could I really make it in Hollywood?? Maybe I just gave up on the dream too early...

My friend, who I've since lost contact with still has a copy of the film and I haven't seen it in years. Artistic differences tore us apart and we never made another film. It's probably a good thing though - too many painful memories, especially when the tip of one our plastic guns fell off. That called for some major rewriting. Oh, the horror.

Anyway, that's my one and only experience

[Legolas_Greenleaf]

Do music videos count? if so, i'm in an Iggy Pop one that was filmed at a Toronto concert...i'm the cool looking dude in the front row.

[Alex Weitzman]

It's still in post-production, but I starred in a little educational video as a kooky scientist/historian who takes these two little girls on a ride in a time machine to the American Revolution. I still haven't seen any footage from it yet, but when it's all done, I'm actually going to be on the front cover of the video cassette.

[Dr. Zira, a chimpanzee]

Blue Sky

Parade scene

Military band

Front row

Second trombone from your right

That's me!!!

We got to jump out of the way when Jessica Lange's stunt double drove the car through the crowd. I got Jessica her very own self to sign the back of my music.

I was in a crowd scene of rednecks yelling racial slurs at Whoopie Goldberg in The Long Walk Home, too. I think my arm appears in one shot, but I'm not sure.

I was featured as "Guy walking into the bar with blonde gal as Lee Ann leaves" at the end of Lee Ann Womack video for her hit "The Fool".

Want an autograph?

[dcrochetti]

I was a stand-in for Michael Madsen in a little piece of crap movie called OUTLAW that will probably never see the light of day, so not sure that it counts...actually, I did a little bit more than just "stand-in" for him, because he was having some, shall we say personal problems at times during that shoot, and occasionally just wouldn't show up to the set...so they actually used me instead a lot, so there are lots of shots of my shoulders and back of my head and such that are actually in the movie in his place...I also got to do a little stuntwork driving an SUV up to the front of a restaurant and slamming the brakes and skidding to a stop at the curb, only a few feet from another actor, (that was cool, but I was so nervous I was actually going to hit the actor because he was only literally a foot or two from the mark I was supposed to skid to that it took me about four times to get it right, and the director was getting a little pissed) The director was Bo Svenson by the way (from WALKING TALL and NORTH DALLAS FORTY) a tall, Swedish man with a strong accent...he would always scream "I LOVE DAT" after a scene was finished properly...and the movie also starred William Forsythe (who is truly one of the nicest and most professional people on the planet) and Jeff Fahey (didn't talk much with Jeff)...Michael Madsen was a cool guy actually...boy, do I have some stories though about some behind the scenes crap that went on during that month that I guess I will have to save for my book someday...anyway, that was that...

[vornporn]

I played the inattentive store clerk in a shoplifting prevention training video.

[Beau]

I've directed and edited an award winning 10-minute documentary, "IMMIGRATION", on the trials and tribulations of Argentine and Vietnamese immigrants. Why those two countries? Well, I'm from Argentina, so I am in contact with Argentinians. And my mom's a dentist and her boss's wife is from Vietnam so I just included these in. The video was for History day and got the State Alternate Award. I was heavily critisized for only showing the "good side" of immigration. I was also annoyed at the 10 minute mark that they imposed but oh well. I've also appeared on the news quiet a bit if that counts. I was in the front of the Los Angeles Argentine School group on the Anniversary of the city of Los Angeles. All the other minorities had all these ridiculous floats but not us Argentines.....oh no......we WALKED the entire way trying not to step on the horse**** left by the law enforcement horses and at the same time repeating this fantastic little flag number. All the while, the Korean group behind us confortable sat on their big fat float waving at the people. We need better funding...... . Also, back when I used to live in Buenos Aires (hey grouchy, where do you live...what streets) I went to see a River match (oh, yes I'm from River Plate.... a soccer team in Argentina for those that don't know)and this reporter asked me if I knew about this Chilean guy named Salas that was coming to play for River soon. I was six, and just said I did not know who they were.

[spartans1114]

Originally posted by Flotser
Cutter's Way is excellent! "a toyota's a ****ty car anyway!"

I directed 2 short films, both made it to festivals, tha latest even went abroad (and i went along with it), which was fun. Of course, there's no market in it, so i'm doing something completely different now, filming (rarely) on the side.

Visited the (humongous) set of Le Roi Dance, which was a sobering experience (chaotic and a bad athmosphere). Never been in a film though.

hahahahahhahahahhahahhahahah nobody believes you

[spartans1114]

Originally posted by Flotser
Cutter's Way is excellent! "a toyota's a ****ty car anyway!"

I directed 2 short films, both made it to festivals, tha latest even went abroad (and i went along with it), which was fun. Of course, there's no market in it, so i'm doing something completely different now, filming (rarely) on the side.

Visited the (humongous) set of Le Roi Dance, which was a sobering experience (chaotic and a bad athmosphere). Never been in a film though.

hahahahahhahahahhahahhahahah nobody believes you

[Mr.Pink]

I've been in a commercial. My grandpa was an extra in a Clint Eastwood film, and later got to eat lunch with him (he asked my grandpa where a good place to eat was).

[Flotser]

Originally posted by spartans1114
hahahahahhahahahhahahhahahah nobody believes you

tell you what, i'll publicly admit to making it up if you promise to stay out of this forum.