Star Wars Extras Needed 145
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?"
To be awake is to be alive. -- Henry David Thoreau, in "Walden"
All the people (Score:5, Funny)
I wanna be... (Score:5, Funny)
kill me now.
Re:I wanna be... (Score:1)
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Nothing like a big, hairy space-ape walking through the park to make everyone's day a little more surreal.
Bonus points if you meet a cute girl who'd just as soon kiss a wookiee.
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Oops (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Oops (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Slashdot effect? (Score:3, Funny)
Extras? (Score:5, Funny)
Script writer? (Score:5, Funny)
meesa (Score:3, Funny)
Just out of curiosity, do extras get paid with cash or "the joy and experience of doing their best"?
Re:meesa (Score:5, Funny)
You're confusing this with the IT industry...
Re:meesa (Score:2)
Jason
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Sign Up! (Score:3, Funny)
Wanna kill people?
Then join the Storm Trooper Army!
Re:Sign Up! (Score:3, Funny)
Shouldn't that read "Guns don't kill people, blaster bolts do"?
Re:Sign Up! (Score:5, Funny)
Considering that Stormtroopers hit their target about as often as on a GI Joe cartoon... probably not.
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Re:Sign Up! (Score:2)
What the hell was that? The sights on top of AK-47s there for decoration or what?
Sorry about being off topic. I would LOVE to be in a Star Wars flick but I'm not going to be in Australia anytime soon. I am looking forward to see how Lu
Re:Sign Up! (Score:2)
Anyways, as it turned out, i was one of the best marks-people there. I put 8/10 in the center of a paper target 150 yards away. However, most people didn't hit anything. That, and we were shoooting lying down, with no
Re:Sign Up! (Score:2)
Scott Evil: "What is he doing here? Why don't you just kill him?"
Dr. Evil: "No son, I have a better plan."
Scott Evil: "Why don't I go up to my room, get my gun, and shoot him here!!!"
Re:Sign Up! (Score:3, Funny)
[eat snackey-smores]
Re:Sign Up! (Score:1)
Meet strange and interesting Aliens
and *Kill them!*
By Crikey! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:By Crikey! (Score:1, Funny)
eh eh eh
Re:By Crikey! (Score:1)
Re:By Crikey! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:By Crikey! (Score:1)
Pssst. All three of the prequels filmed in Oz.
Disclaimer: I find Steve Irwin's existence bothersome and am mostly pissed at being reminded he's not dead.
Russell Crowe is a Kiwi... (Score:5, Funny)
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...
Re:By Crikey! (Score:2)
Actually, the "gang" will return to Tatooione for {another hackneyed wrap-in} and find Irwin chasing Tusken Raiders.
"Crikey! Ain't he a beaut! Now these 'ere Sandpeople are very dangerous, so I have to be careful. If one uv 'em was to hit me with it's stick, out 'ere miles away from any bacta tanks, I'd be a goner. Now, what I gonna do is stick my thumb up 'is butt! That oughtta REALLY piss 'im off!"
so let me get this right (Score:5, Funny)
cool...
btw, I think this is called "flash crowds" or somesuch
Re:so let me get this right (Score:1, Informative)
From a Larry Niven SF story, where instantaneous teleportation and fast news coverage combined to. . um. . slashdot places.
Maura Fay Casting (Score:5, Informative)
Have a go. You might just pull a role that will set you up long term.
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Re:Maura Fay Casting - to have a go is Aussi! (Score:1)
Ever thought how cool it would be to be an extra in a 'Last Stand of the Jedi Knights' scene?
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Re:Maura Fay Casting (Score:2)
Are they doing the plot writers, script writers, director(s) and principal actors, too?
Why not Arkansas (Score:5, Funny)
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A burst of optimism... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:A burst of optimism... (Score:2)
I was making a joke regarding Lucas's screenwriting abilities (i.e. that I felt optimism based on a misreading of the headline as Lucas seeking screenwriters for Ep 3, thus implicitly acknowledging his writing deficiencies).
Apparently the original joke wasn't all that clear (though at least one mod. found it funny).
I'm not making fun, I'm genuinely wondering how you interpreted the original post.
Count Me Out ... (Score:5, Interesting)
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
Australia (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdotting? (Score:1, Redundant)
No submission to Slashdot gets away without being 'Dotted somehow. Muhahaha...
Decisions decisions! (Score:5, Funny)
First Jar Jar, then the horrible movie title, and now this! What is a diehard Star Wars fan to do?
Re:Decisions decisions! (Score:1)
Be a wookie. That way you're already wearing a mask and won't have to hide your face in shame when it comes to light that you were involved in the steaming pile Ep III is bound to be.
Re:Decisions decisions! (Score:1)
Correction: *two* bad movie titles.
Oh joy (Score:5, Funny)
Mod me daddy up. (Score:1)
You know. . . (Score:1)
Woohooo! (Score:1)
It's a good life
their inspiration (Score:2, Funny)
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it'll probably also end up at http://www.talker.com/john/mov/ghyslain_razaa.wmv in the near future too.
Whine. Whine. (Score:5, Funny)
You know... (Score:4, Insightful)
"Ever want to be in a Star Wars movie?" (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, but not anymore.
I think this STAR WARS stuff should made illegal. (Score:3, Insightful)
Star Wars is one of the science fiction series which is most ridden with illogial pseudo-science rubbish. Take some examples:
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.
Whoa thar, Silver (Score:2)
"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 j
Re:Whoa thar, Silver (Score:2)
Or maybe not. You're forgetting your Special Relativity. The speed of light is constant for all observers.
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Re:Whoa thar, Silver (Score:1)
The source of the light (the head of the bolt) does not have to move at the speed of light in a vacuum (clue).
Yeah! Not just Star Wars... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Yeah! Not just Star Wars... (Score:3, Funny)
Old Testament I: The Phantom Manna
Old Testament II: Attack of the Stones
Old Testament III: Step 3, Prophet!
I think you should get out more (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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They have speakers in the tie fighters that catch the "magnetic" interference of the lasers/other fighter's engines and project them into the fighters so you can have a realistic audio interpretation of where everything is.
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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?"
You don't insulate space suits. Space, being a vacuum and all, kinda does that all by itself. You don't try to keep your astronaut from freezing, you try to keep him from roasting.
Speaking of vacuum, the poster was trying to point out tha
Re:I think you should get out more (Score:1)
No, goober, you do both. The side in the Sun will roast, but the shaded side will be very cold. In space, you want to keep everything inside in, and everything outside out. That, my friend, is what insulation is for. It does both.
Hmm... there are some minds I'd like to apply this to.
Re:I think this STAR WARS stuff should made illega (Score:1)
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Besides
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Have a rubix cube complet itself when you finish each assigned task.
*..*
PATENTS MINE BITCH.
Re:I think this STAR WARS stuff should made illega (Score:2)
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.
Re:I think this STAR WARS stuff should made illega (Score:2)
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:
Re:I think this STAR WARS stuff should made illega (Score:1)
Shouldn't that be "Beware someone taking themselves too seriously"?
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Dear Lord... (Score:3, Funny)
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...
just imagine... (Score:1)
Well..being an extra is not that fantastic guys... (Score:5, Informative)
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
An old saying (Score:2)
King Arthur Extras Needed (Score:4, Informative)
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Hey! (Score:3, Funny)
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."
Being an extra is not a lot of fun (Score:1, Informative)
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, th
Lucas Hiring Extras? Nahhh! (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!
Some Famous Star Wars Extras (Score:3, Interesting)
Duplicate posts needed (Score:1)
THe Casting... (Score:5, Funny)
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!"
I was asked to be an extra but... (Score:1)
Fine Print: N'Synch members need not apply (Score:2)
Sorry to dash peoples hopes.... (Score:1)
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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Re:Who gives a shit?? (Score:1)
graspee
Re:Slashdot sanctioned racism? (Score:1)
The only people allowed to insult australians are new zealanders!
Everyone else, lay off! they're OUR bitches!
(Or failing that, go to australia, and insult them to their faces. it's ok that way. say something like "hey tosser - whats a wanker like you doing in a place like this?" that's quite socially acceptable in australia, and will usually result in the australian buying you a drink. really.)
generic NZ/OZ joke (Score:1)
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.