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lyonsden writes "Ever want to be in a Star Wars movie? Live in Australia? Check out this page at the Maura Fay Group Casting web site. Especially the Star Wars part towards the bottom. Any takers?"
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All the people that just blocked viewing info on Star Wars movies are gonna be really mad. Mwhahaha.
kill me now.
You know its funny... there are a bunch of starwars fanatics that were pissed after the previous Wookie "spolier" which was then followed by responses saying "Just change your preferences to block out all starwars posts."
:-)
Now those guys are going to miss out on their chance to actually be in the movie.
Then again, I suppose being an extra in the film is the ultimate spolier.
So now are we going to slashdot Australia?
What do they want extras for? What they really need is a script writer.
an army of moronic gungan extras!
Just out of curiosity, do extras get paid with cash or "the joy and experience of doing their best"?
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Now, aren't you glad you didn't turn off the Star Wars articles just to avoid seeing any possible spoilers?
Wanna go places? Wanna blow up things?
Wanna kill people?
Then join the Storm Trooper Army!
"Guns don't kill people, bullets do."
Am I the only one who has visions of Steve Irwin chasing Ewoks and Russell Crowe punching Darth Vader in the mouth?
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Now /. is done its harm with slashdotting websites and the like, the editors are setting their aims higher by the first ever attempt to physically slashdot the film studio!
cool...
btw, I think this is called "flash crowds" or somesuch
Have a go. You might just pull a role that will set you up long term.
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Why not scout in Arkansas instead? All people I've met from there had a strong Chewbacca-like appearance. Oh, yes, I live in Europe so I haven't met that many (three in fact); but, it all seemed so much more than coincidental.
Come one, come all! Why YES, even YOU can be altered to appear as an ugly-ass alien, a bad-ass alien, a guard wearing nothing but white armor, or one of the above under the foot of a huge robot!
w00t!
I sell out to The Man every day.
...that so quickly vanished; I thought the headline was "Star Wars Screenwriters" Needed...
I'd have jumped all over being in the original trilogy (especially since I was just a kid) but I don't think I'd want to be associated with the new batch.
... and that is the real reason fully CGI characters suck.
All that overpowering CGI oooh-wow-look-at-what-George-can-do (with a giant renderfarm and a gajillion-million dollars) crap. Plus it would just plain suck to be in a scene with Jar-Jar and not have the satisfaction of throttling him until his head exploded
Of course they need extras from down under, lots of Jedi there.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
people wouldnt want to try see themselves in a movie. that way you can keep yourself occupied while the franchise goes down the toilet. just make sure you are in one of the later scenes...
I know you are psychotic, but please make an effort.
Yes, let's let everything 30 some years old or more die out. Only if you're 30 something though..
No submission to Slashdot gets away without being 'Dotted somehow. Muhahaha...
What makes a man want to be a mouse? (Python's Flying Circus)
I don't understand.
First Jar Jar, then the horrible movie title, and now this! What is a diehard Star Wars fan to do?
If you think J.J.Binks was contraversial, wait until the audience sees a planet full of nerds.
Table-ized A.I.
Crickey, must be hard finding scores of extras to play moronic gungans in Australia. Haha. GO NZ!
I really want to take a surf trip to Oz.
It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired. - Robert Anson Heinlein
Not only can I live on the Isand where Skippy the Kangeroo was filmed but what's more I can star as a starwars extra :D
:)
It's a good life
maybe this guy should try out. Looks like he'd make an outstanding jedi...
But with the blast shield down, I can't read the website! How am I supposed to sign up?
A lil off topic, but with all the complaining about how crummy the new trilogy is (which...it is) you really have to think. Even though we don't like it, (the ones who grew up with it), younger children sure seem to love it. In all honesty thats not such a bad thing. Infact its a good thing. We have The Matrix to look forward to. That can be our Star Wars. The little kids can have the new Star Wars.
Answer:
Yes, but not anymore.
SpanishInquisition, I applaud your excellent FP and also the chutzpah of the moderator who found it insightful.
:-)
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At least, when he's making a fool of himself, he's definitely from New Zealand. Of course, if he gets an Oscar, he's Australian...
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
Star Wars is one of the science fiction series which is most ridden with illogial pseudo-science rubbish. Take some examples:
- During the space fights you heard explosions and swoosh sounds of lasers. But in space there is no air to transmit sound.
- We see laser "beams" slowly travel from the cannon to the target. Sub-light speed light ?
- The spaceship travel around with sup light speed, but we have NO relativistic effects.
- In starwars II (old series) R2D2 solves several times computational problems which are NOT turing computable.
- Most alien creatures breate oxygen.
- The super star destroyer is so big in Star Wars II(old series) that it's gravitational field
made asteriods revolve around it, but this isn't the case.
- When the Death Star fires, we see 3 laser beams "hitting" each other an send of a 4th one in a different direction.
- The Death Star has cooling shafts which have a direct connection to the vaccum, therefore have no air whatever for cooling in them.
This is just a very limited list of the rubbish you see in Star Wars. Well, if the movie would be aimed just to grown-up, I wouldn't care. Grown-ups are grown-up, thus it's their own business what rubbish they watch and what not. But the Star Wars movies are aimed to kiddies ! Sorry, we can't G. Lucas to stupify our kids just that his company makes more and more money out of the Star Wars waste.I was even asked by kids why the US military isn't using Laser weapons in Iraq and why we use these rockets which are so slow !
This can't go one any longer. The goverment shouldn't interfere with the rights of the individual too much, but there is a line at which the goverment must protect people from themselves. I mean, drug consumption is illegal for the very same reason, too.
Bush should get at least something right and outlaw this rubbish.
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
Advertising this on /.? I imagine a horde of geeks flooding Australia...
This will be the ugliest collection of extras, ever.
Of course, the amount they'd save on makeup for alien depictions might more than make up for it...
If you were me, you'd be good lookin'. - six string samurai
Many of your points are good but
"We see laser "beams" slowly travel from the cannon to the target. Sub-light speed light ?"
At the energy density involved for lasers to be an effective weapon then it is vaguely possible that the photon 'bolt' would have enough mass to locally curve space time, and hence affect the observed speed of propagation. Maybe.
"In starwars II (old series) R2D2 solves several times computational problems which are NOT turing computable"
I like this one. What are they? But maybe he just guessed. Or he was reprogammed by the Force and didn't have to calculate anything , it was all received knowledge.
"Most alien creatures breate oxygen." No, it's just all the alien creatures we interact with breath oxygen. Other chemistries are not interested in the same planets since they cannot live there, and may have vastly different rates of consciousness.
"When the Death Star fires, we see 3 laser beams "hitting" each other an send of a 4th one in a different direction."
It worked in Ghostbusters
Hey damn I was going to jump on your sig as well but it doesn't show.
one expressed amusement.
"During the space fights you heard explosions and swoosh sounds of lasers. But in space there is no air to transmit sound."
...and about the other points, who cares:it's a movie! Why do many aliens speak English? Probably because it's easier for the viewers to understand them that way.
For example many modern fighter jets have a built-in sound system that acts as a "acoustic radar display". It's far more intuitive to hear a sound of another plane from behind rather than having to look at the radar display all the time. Star wars vehicles could have the same thing.
I once read a book which was also ridden with illogical pseudo-science rubbish.
Take some examples:
Won't someone please think of the children and ban this rubbish?
Funnily enough, I don't remember the author; it might well have been George Lucas.
it would require being in Australia for a while. That would not be so bad except that the place is full of Australians.
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... a bunch of slashdotters getting recruited and screaming Nathalie Portman hot pants grits in every scenes.
You're a troll, but I'll bite.
During the space fights you heard explosions and swoosh sounds of lasers. But in space there is no air to transmit sound.
Some keyboards were "click-less" and someone wrote a program to send a "click" out of the PC speaker making it more useable for most people. Why couldn't someone take the same approach and install sound FX units into each X-Wing/TIE Figher so that pilots could "hear" where craft were and what they were doing?
We see laser "beams" slowly travel from the cannon to the target. Sub-light speed light ?
What you were seeing was tracers. Modern day armies use similar things
The spaceship travel around with sup light speed, but we have NO relativistic effects.
Of course you've seen the real thing
In starwars II (old series) R2D2 solves several times computational problems which are NOT turing computable.
StarWars II was the new series - IV-VI were the old ones. As to R2D2, look at how far computers have come since conception. I really can't even to think about what they will be capable of by the time we've started to colonise the galaxy.
Most alien creatures breate oxygen.
AFAIK, all creatures on Earth breath it as well - even the fish in the sea. They are as "alien" to us as we are to them.
When the Death Star fires, we see 3 laser beams "hitting" each other an send of a 4th one in a different direction.
Well, just whack a prism or similar at the point where the beams join and blamo - it could work. And as it's transparent, you didn't see it in the movie.
The Death Star has cooling shafts which have a direct connection to the vaccum, therefore have no air whatever for cooling in them.
Why does it have to be air? You do know that NASA space suits are very well insulated to stop there astronuts from freezing right?
Why does a movie have to be scientifically accurate? It's supposed to entertain you dammit. And little kiddies who you want to protect have vivid imaginations - something which you appear to have lost. Their imagination is often their freedom which you want to remove.
Outlaw inaccurate science fiction movies? Then there would be NO SF movies! Heck, whilst we're here let's outlaw ALL fiction because as it's fiction it can't possibly be true.
As to the kids, you could have told them that Star Wars is not a true story. I take it that you've already old them that Santa doesn't exist either and mythical persons don't bring presents.
Shhhh! If you're very quiet, you can hear, the strange mating call of the red brested flame bait...
It's science fiction, not science fact. And it's a fscking movie what do you expect? Ever watch any movie about hacking? Not a single one ever deals with real hacking, it's always some thing like "Ok I've got to get past this firewall by using a joystick to control a worm I uploaded to eat away at the firewall and we're in." Or like in Swordfish, the building of the Hydra, that was great I wish programming was as easy as making a cube that the computer doesn't reject, it'd make my job easier.
Besides it doesn't do kids any harm to think that Star Wars is completely possible, it's good to have an imagination that isn't limited by the laws of physics. And when they get older they will learn that it's just a movie. Lastly, if everything had to be factual, there'd be no Barney, Blue's Clues, Sesame Street, well pretty much all children's programming would be taken off the air.
The site for the Maura Fay Group doesn't have a privacy policy, nor does it list which 'stats' should be included in any registration. This seems kind of suspicious to me, but the site looks legit enough (plenty of past credentials such as Farscape and Star Wars ep. II).
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For those interested, I've looked into becoming an extra for the movie in the past, and this website
http://www.centralcasting.com.au/registration.h
provides a good guide as to what they might want. Despite their lack of a privacy policy regarding email correspondence, I had no hesitation in registering my enthusiasm for any role. I just hope living 3 hours' drive from Sydney doesn't rule me out
I was an extra in a locally made movie (in NZ, not in Ozzie ;) and...eh...being an extra seemed to mostly consist of ....WAITING. waiting waiting waiting....
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It goes like this:
- Meeting the director - cool
- Meeting the lead character (and assorted females) - neato
- Having to sign a non-disclosure agreement - worrying
- Wearing a nifty custome - very cool
- Having make up applied by people from LOTR - very cool
- Waiting for 5->6 hours in the middle of the freezing cold night (in some poky shed) - not so ehhh....cool.
- Finally filming some scenes (outside) - which takes half an hour (if that) and by God it's gotten colder outside - most excellent.
(Although it was so cold that my big red nose was probably clearly shining through the layers of zombie make-up
Would you willing to go through all that to be an extra in a star wars movie?
YES? (this is
Ok, then follow the above procedure, but imagine yourself wearing (for example) a wookie-outfit or a storm-trooper outfit...and consider what the average day-time temperatures in Ozzie are like...
Good luck matey
Since we're doing casting calls... living in Ireland? There are open auditions next week for extras for the film King Arthur being shot here over the summer. Audition details here. They want men with long hair and beards particularly, so I may get in, as long as I can get some contact lenses...
(this is not a
What is it with all these anti-Australian posts getting modded +1 and 2? You think I like being insulted every time a story to do with Australia is run? These posts should be modded down as Troll or Flamebait to -1, or at least left at their original 0. The worst part isn't really the idiots who like to slag a nation of 20 million people, but the modders who think it's worth awarding points!
If I were to write a post saying "I would go but it would require being in Africa for a while. That would not be so bad except that the place is full of Africans" it would immediately be recognised as racially-based slander and modded down or ignored. I doubt anyone would mod up posts attacking the American people either. Just because Australia is white doesn't mean insulting all of us is okay.
I have a sense of humour when people raise the infamous Simpsons episode about Australia, but seriously - posts like THX1138s don't deserve to be modded up at all.
...I live just across the park from Fox Studios in Sydney. There must be money to be made out of fanatical StarWars fans. Maybe I can rent out my loft space to hopefuls by the square meter per hour. What am I bid?
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I suddenly heard millions of Star Wars geeks cry out, then silenced when they found out it was in the land down under. Seriously, I really can see them now trying to do the Jedi mind trick on the cast pickers, "Those others are not the extras you are looking for."
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What's with the Logan's Run attitude?
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Having worked as an extra (and an actor), it's not a lot of fun being an extra. You're not allowed to eat lunch before the crew & the actors. You'll get paid minimum wage and spend 14 hours a day on set standing around, waiting and being quiet.
Yes, that's right, they pay you to stand around and wait while they adjust the cameras & lighting. Maybe 10-20% of your time is when the cameras are actually rolling.
There are a lot of people who want to be extras thinking that it will be their big break, that the director/producer will see them and invite them to be in their next big movie. It doesn't happen more than 0.001% of the time.
If you just want to be an extra for fun, make a small amount of cash and learn a little about the movie business, go for it, but have realistic expectations.
Surely this must be a hoax.
If you've seen the last two Star Wars movies, you'll know that George Lucas has moved beyond this gross material plane. There's no way he would tolerate mere human beings getting in the way of his luminous vision. Send in the CGI extras!
When all you have is an axe, everything looks like a grindstone.
It wouldn't hurt to get a director too.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
if you become an extra, you can make those responsible for Jar Jar answer for their crime. If you succeed, all the geeks of the world will make YOU Emperor.
Stormtroopers have never killed anybody in a Star Wars movie except for some Ewoks - and that is like killing small children.
Even at close close range they still manage to miss all of the main characters somehow.
The Stormtrooper who hit his head on the door in the Deathstar in ANH was an extra. You could be just as famous - with your picture on thousands of blooper sites across the internet.
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Ever wanted to post a dupe? Heard of Star Wars? Check out this page. Especially the 2 Star Wars posts on today's frontpage. Since there are two stories about Star Wars, we need a duplicate of each. Any takers?
... oh, and it would also be nice to have that unix-haters-handbook story posted again (you can't hate unix-haters too much, can you?)
My other UID is 1337
What happened to the clone production plant? :-)
That'd be a neat debugging tool though eh?
Have a rubix cube complet itself when you finish each assigned task.
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I'm a big retard who forgot to log out of Slashdot on Mike's computer! LOOK AT ME.
Neither do I, but that doesn't mean that I'm stupid enough to admit it.
D'oh!
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"Your most exciting day on a movie set is your first day. Your most boring day is every day which follows."
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD
Casting guy: "I will let you be an extra"
Me: "And you will let me see George Lucas"
Casting Guy: "I will let you see Lucas"
Lucas: "Weak minded fool! You let the fan come right to me!"
Me: "I came here, almighty Lucas, to ask you not to write another crappy love scene for Episode 3"
Lucas presses button "To the Rancoor pit!"
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
At least they weren't using "sonic charges" in space! Oh, wait...
But forget the bad physics, how about the freakin' moronic bad guys? Let's look at Ep II for a moment:
- We blew up the landing pad and missed our target. Let's now send two tiny worms to kill the senator instead of, say, blowing up the whole damned city block.
- Why kill her myself when I can send an intermediary to screw it up for me?
- How good of an assasin can you be if you have your delivery system come back to you?
- At the very least, couldn't you have given it the IQ to have it not come back to you if it's being followed or held on to?
- You think you blew up Obi-Wan's ship. Just in case you didn't, why not make sure he's stranded by going off to blow up that hyperdrive thingie he has to leave up in space? You know, the one that may as well have "Please blow me up!" written on it in big neon letters (WTF, do the Jedi have their spacecraft designed by committee?).
- I can understand not having a decent enough sensor array to catch that one tiny ship of Obi-Wan's coming into the system. But how do you explain not noticing the incoming Jedi fleet AND the incoming clone fleet? Ever heard of "radar," people?
- He has a light saber. You have ranged weaponry. So why do you feel the need to get close enough to get your head chopped off?
- When all is said and done, maybe you should have made sure that Jengo Fett wasn't a complete freakin' moron before deciding to make millions of clones of him. No wonder those cloen troops were dropping like flies...
And I haven't even gone into the whole "Natalie Portman falls for psychotic stalker" bit. Must be Lucas' attempt to win back the geek crowd...I REFUSED to play JarJar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"The Death Star has cooling shafts which have a direct connection to the vaccum, therefore have no air whatever for cooling in them."
The removal of mass from an object constitutes a removal of heat. Vacuums have a tendency to incite the deconcentration, and in effect removal, of mass.
~Berj
It's science fiction, not science fact.
Actually, it's neither. Star Wars is in a genre called future fantasy, notwithstanding that it's set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It makes no pretence to scientific viability. It's literally fantasy set in a high tech era.
Science fiction is supposed to make plausible science and to explain, broadly, how things work.
I rang these guys as I have lived here in Sydney for the past month or so and would love to get in the movie.
Currently they are only looking for 7ft people.
DOH! But they are awaiting more requirements as it is only in pre-production.
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Besides, were the ports not described as 'exhaust ports' in Ep IV??
...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
Why do they have women in (n)?
Sheep can't cook.
(where n = Australia or New Zealand, depending upon who you wish to insult. Also works well for Wales)
Also welsh joke.
Woman 1: Did you hear about mr Jones?
Woman 2: No, what?
Woman 1: He was caught up in the top field making love to one of his sheep!
Woman 2: Was it a male sheep?
Woman 1: Oh no. There's nothing wrong with mr Jones.
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Well, it couldn't hurt to try so I emailed the URL to my Portfolio Page.
Ever thought how cool it would be to be an extra in a 'Last Stand of the Jedi Knights' scene?
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Shouldn't that be "Beware someone taking themselves too seriously"?