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Star Wars Extras Needed

Posted by timothy on from the tell-them-slashdot-sent-you dept.

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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  1. Count Me Out ... by pantropik · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    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 ... and that is the real reason fully CGI characters suck.

  2. Re:I think this STAR WARS stuff should made illega by Zakabog · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  3. Lucas Hiring Extras? Nahhh! by Michael_Burton · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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!

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    When all you have is an axe, everything looks like a grindstone.
  4. Some Famous Star Wars Extras by Angry+Black+Man · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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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    the byproduct of years of oppression by the white man