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Star Wars Extras Needed
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.
What do they want extras for? What they really need is a script writer.
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
...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
You're confusing this with the IT industry...
"If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy
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.
But with the blast shield down, I can't read the website! How am I supposed to sign up?
Answer:
Yes, but not anymore.
Shouldn't that read "Guns don't kill people, blaster bolts do"?
Considering that Stormtroopers hit their target about as often as on a GI Joe cartoon... probably not.
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It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
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.
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....
;^) oops...wasn't supposed to tell you that..
/. after all ;)
:)
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
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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