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Dr_Amazing posted:I never really thought about it, but I just always kind of assumed non-smoking actors just sucked it up for any smoking scenes. That's actually pretty interesting.
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It's sort of amusing to imagine Don Draper sitting there smoking an herbal cigarette and drinking lukewarm tea.
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Jun 7, 2010 17:19
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bad movie knight posted:On a related note, something I've always wondered: Do they ever use real drugs in the filming of a movie? You know how sometimes (very rarely) Actor A and Actress B have real sex disguised as fake sex? I wonder if the same thing happens with drugs, especially coke. Fake weed is usually that legal "herbal" poo poo you see advertised in High Times.
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Jun 7, 2010 17:21
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Akuma posted:Pretty extraneous after the "They cut the power" "What do you mean they cut the power? They're animals!" scene, no? That line from Aliens indicated that there was some intelligence, but it could have been a result of hive mind thought. Similar to how ants will just mindlessly attack things that threaten the hive (No man, BEES make hives!). The scene I mentioned really shows that they have individual thought.
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Jun 7, 2010 17:24
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bad movie knight posted:Man, Heather Graham and Julianne Moore must've had one bad case of the shits. They do a lot of loving fake coke in that scene. It's fun to think about. But it doesn't really work for shooting scenes because you have to do it over and over and over again. It gets expensive and kind of boring. You really can't go anywhere and do the things that'd be fun if you were high... if you did you could easily lose your job. Not to mention just becoming generally uncontrollable. I mean, in eating scenes it gets so tiring that actors spit out the food unless they have to swallow it (they do have to watch their waistlines, and the food is cheap as can be) I'm sure it's happened a couple of times, but it's really a bad idea.
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NeuroticErotica posted:I'm sure it's happened a couple of times, but it's really a bad idea. "WILL YOU BE MY MOM?!" NeuroticErotica posted:I mean, in eating scenes it gets so tiring that actors spit out the food unless they have to swallow it (they do have to watch their waistlines, and the food is cheap as can be)
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Jun 7, 2010 17:28
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NeuroticErotica posted:I mean, in eating scenes it gets so tiring that actors spit out the food unless they have to swallow it (they do have to watch their waistlines, and the food is cheap as can be) When a childhood friend of mine became a teen TV actor (and whose life later went completely off the rails like all child actors; ended up a drug addict in prison), he talked about spending 10 hours filming a dinner scene and having to spoon cold food into his mouth and spit it out, while the set designers would make sure the amount of food matched from scene to scene. It included a bit where someone spat food onto another kid, and they filmed that ten times too.
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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Not really a full-on question, but do you ever wonder how actors (especially child actors) who are big feel about the character they're playing being called all of these names? I mean, the obvious answer is 'they get over it, or are fine with it anyway, since they took the job', I just always wondered that as a kid. Someone like Eric Stoltz in Mask was alright, because anything that was said to him was said only to his character, but fat people are fat even when the camera's off.
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Jun 7, 2010 18:33
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Or when they need a bunch of fat ugly actors what does the casting ad say? It but be so awkward to audition for a part, where the fact that you are so ugly is the main source of comedy.
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Jun 7, 2010 19:34
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Dr_Amazing posted:Or when they need a bunch of fat ugly actors what does the casting ad say? It but be so awkward to audition for a part, where the fact that you are so ugly is the main source of comedy.
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I just tried searching casting.backstage.com (first site I found) for all the fat euphemisms I could think of and found a big pile of nothing. This was the closest from some Paramount casting call: "Collin: male, 13-14, slightly (or more than slightly) overweight, confident, driven, optimistic, a natural leader, must have a great sense of humor, should have a Midweste..."
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Jun 7, 2010 19:54
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Dr_Amazing posted:Or when they need a bunch of fat ugly actors what does the casting ad say? It but be so awkward to audition for a part, where the fact that you are so ugly is the main source of comedy. Steve Buscemi. Here's a question that is not so much movie related, but I have been watching my way through the Dr. Who and related BBC stuff, and goddam but they have some atrocious American accents in those shows. I'll assume that because it is domestic British TV they just don't give a drat, but man, they suck. I don't have a specific question, just looking for feedback on this issue. (Also Ned Beatty(?) with a Russian accent in some movie (Gorky Park?))
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Ok, watched the Hangover again, I don't think they explained why Bradly Cooper's character was in the hospital. They mentioned it was for bruised ribs and a mild concussion but they never said how it happened. Was it the tiny Asian or what?
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CowboyKid posted:Ok, watched the Hangover again, I don't think they explained why Bradly Cooper's character was in the hospital. I remember reading an interview with Todd Phillips saying they had some stuff in the movie (specifically the hospital scene, stuff in the pictures, etc.) to show that there's still some stuff they have no idea about. Also, if they don't reveal the whole night it leaves things open for a sequel.
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CowboyKid posted:Ok, watched the Hangover again, I don't think they explained why Bradly Cooper's character was in the hospital. I thought that he got in a fight with Wayne Newton during the credits. Also, what is up with this  Its all the same newspaper! I guess I just thought a PA would go out and get old news papers or something. Beer_Suitcase fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Jun 7, 2010 |
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Jun 7, 2010 21:31
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bad movie knight posted:Man, Heather Graham and Julianne Moore must've had one bad case of the shits. They do a lot of loving fake coke in that scene. Zoë Lund in Bad Lieutenant (also a co writer) did real heroin when she shot up in the film.
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If I remember the commentary for SuperTroopers when Farva is supposed to be chugging beers at the awards dinner or whatever it was, the other cast members kept switching the "beer" with real beer and he did end up getting pretty wasted
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I don't think they were playing any joke, he was drinking real beer from the start and the vomiting is real too. One of the outtakes is a bunch of unused footage of Kevin Heffernan throwing up. It's also mentioned in the commentary that when Steve Lemme, who plays Mac, takes the four shots at the beginning that he's drinking real liquor. They did various takes of the syrup chugging, also. Once with real syrup too. e: I watched that movie way too much because I haven't seen it in years and probably twice that since I've listened to the commentary but I remembered all that all right away.
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Jun 7, 2010 21:49
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The Lucas posted:Zoë Lund in Bad Lieutenant (also a co writer) did real heroin when she shot up in the film.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I don't think they were playing any joke, he was drinking real beer from the start and the vomiting is real too. One of the outtakes is a bunch of unused footage of Kevin Heffernan throwing up. It's also mentioned in the commentary that when Steve Lemme, who plays Mac, takes the four shots at the beginning that he's drinking real liquor. I remember one of those guys talking about how they basically ended up shivering on the floor of their trailers with the lights off after the syrup chug. Real question is, how much of the beer in Beerfest was real?
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Jun 7, 2010 22:56
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Beer_Suitcase posted:I guess I just thought a PA would go out and get old news papers or something. And old newspaper would have copyrighted photos/text if you get close enough and they could get sued. You basically just buy a prop newspaper from the prophouse and it has it all jumbled up to where you want various poo poo to be.
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Jun 7, 2010 23:18
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NeuroticErotica posted:And old newspaper would have copyrighted photos/text if you get close enough and they could get sued. You basically just buy a prop newspaper from the prophouse and it has it all jumbled up to where you want various poo poo to be.
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As I've been going through heaps of film noir, I love freeze-framing whenever there's a headline shot. It's fun to see which ones actually bothered to type up a whole story and which ones just slapped a headline on some completely unrelated story. Most are the latter.
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nemoulette posted:I think most people who've gone to acting school are very much aware of the way they look and how it can get them roles. Serious acting schools will tell you these things, the span of roles you can get and so on. Being a fat, talented actor can be really lucrative. Isn't that what happened to Wayne Knight: he lost a bunch of weight and was suddenly unemployable since his entire career was based on being the fat comic relief/rear end in a top hat character? FitFortDanga posted:As I've been going through heaps of film noir, I love freeze-framing whenever there's a headline shot. It's fun to see which ones actually bothered to type up a whole story and which ones just slapped a headline on some completely unrelated story. Most are the latter. Once newspapers are dead and gone I wonder what they're going to do to replace headline shots. News feeds just aren't the same. 
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NeuroticErotica posted:And old newspaper would have copyrighted photos/text if you get close enough and they could get sued. You basically just buy a prop newspaper from the prophouse and it has it all jumbled up to where you want various poo poo to be. I sometimes enjoy pausing movies or TV shows where they feature a closeup of a newspaper with a headline pertaining to the plot. Sometimes it's close enough so you can read the story and a few times, I've seen the story below that for whatever reason has nothing to do with the headline whatsoever. Kind of funny sometimes.
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cletepurcel posted:I sometimes enjoy pausing movies or TV shows where they feature a closeup of a newspaper with a headline pertaining to the plot. Sometimes it's close enough so you can read the story and a few times, I've seen the story below that for whatever reason has nothing to do with the headline whatsoever. Kind of funny sometimes. This post was a reused prop from this post: FitFortDanga posted:As I've been going through heaps of film noir, I love freeze-framing whenever there's a headline shot. It's fun to see which ones actually bothered to type up a whole story and which ones just slapped a headline on some completely unrelated story. Most are the latter.
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NeuroticErotica posted:And old newspaper would have copyrighted photos/text if you get close enough and they could get sued. You basically just buy a prop newspaper from the prophouse and it has it all jumbled up to where you want various poo poo to be. The advent of HD has forced art departments to start putting effort into the props as you no longer can't get away with text being too small or indistinct for the camera to pick up.
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I love it when the text does this:quote:HOLLYWOOD STARLET DIES
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Squid Hat posted:I remember one of those guys talking about how they basically ended up shivering on the floor of their trailers with the lights off after the syrup chug. I know that in Deep Space 9 (TV, but still), the actor playing Damar kept getting a huge sugar high because the Cardassian liquor (Kanar) he kept drinking was pretty much nothing but dyed syrup.
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WebDog posted:The advent of HD has forced art departments to start putting effort into the props as you no longer can't get away with text being too small or indistinct for the camera to pick up. That's mostly TV's problem, they've changed a lot more than feature movies have. bad movie knight posted:You could make a whole thread out of this. Yeah... I just don't know where to start...
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NeuroticErotica posted:That's mostly TV's problem, they've changed a lot more than feature movies have. Maybe an Ask/Tell type thread posted in CD? Outline your job and experience, then let people ask questions?
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I love it when the text does this: It's something that comic books do quite often and is much more noticeable and so more annoying.
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cletepurcel posted:I sometimes enjoy pausing movies or TV shows where they feature a closeup of a newspaper with a headline pertaining to the plot. Sometimes it's close enough so you can read the story and a few times, I've seen the story below that for whatever reason has nothing to do with the headline whatsoever. Kind of funny sometimes. Not a huge Family Guy fan but this always cracked me up. 
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KillRoy posted:Not a huge Family Guy fan but this always cracked me up. quote:DVD's 
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...of SCIENCE! posted:DVD is paused for headline joke.
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:It could be a contraction not a pluralization. No, that's not how newspapers work. It would be "DVD's Paused" just like it would be "Man Found Guilty" or "New Mayor Elected" The apostrophe is technically correct because the headline is written in all caps. "DVDS PAUSED" would be confusing. You would probably figure it out in context, but a few people would probably wonder, "What's DVDS? Some kind of disease?"
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Dr_Amazing posted:I never really thought about it, but I just always kind of assumed non-smoking actors just sucked it up for any smoking scenes. That's actually pretty interesting. This is from a bit back, but if you ever actually smoked you can tell when someone is doing an actor drag and not inhaling. If when they exhale it pretty much looks like a poof of smoke like it could have come off the end of the cigarette like that they only pulled smoke into their mouths and then exhaled. When you actually inhale a drag the smoke gets all aspirated and exhales as a fine mist. I guess no one cares how fake that poo poo looks, but me.
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