When i watch a movie, i occasionally get sidetracked (often through boredom - i'm a 'favourite scenes' film buff rather than a 'whole movie' film buff) into wondering what it would be like to 'walk around that set' or 'act alongside that actor/actress'.

For example, the main reason i'm forever posting my Jaws video into my vcr or planting the disc version into my dvd player (i purchased the 25th Anniversary video, and 5 years later guess what came came on dvd to celebrate its 30th Anniversary?...) is not because i enjoy watching people getting chomped to death by a shark but because i'm absolutely in love with the Amity setting - it's a perfect location and i want to reside there...for the rest of my life.

And if i can have Roy Scheider as my local police chief and Robert Shaw as the local fisherman-hero along with the occasional visit by Richard Dreyfuss just checking-in on how we're all doing (just sweet Drey...just sweet my good man...care for some wine?)...that would be teriffic too!

If you could be in any particular movie(s), which would you choose and why?...

It could be for the smallest, most pettiest of reasons, but there must have been a moment when you wish you could have been a part of a film spectacle, whether it be an entire scene or a single shot of reasonable length...please do share...:idea:

I love that side of movie making too woodsie. That's half the reason I stayed doing extra work on films for so long - certainly wasn't the money!!

First fave scene I was involved with was a stirring speech scene in 'Michael Collins'. It was filmed on a scorcher of a day outside dublin with Liam Neeson giving it socks on a pulpit in a village setting.... he was the dogs nuts so he was...I didn't have to act at all - I would have followed him anywhere!!:blush:

second was a village getting destroyed in 'Braveheart' [got three weeks work on that - mega] I had to hurl myself over a fence [onto a mattress covered with straw] as big scarey men came through the village on horseback setting fire to the houses and generally being unpleasant... great fun....

got a call from Equity to do 'The Wind that shakes the Barley' last year, but it was filmed on the other side of Ireland and I couldn't get enough time off. Bum. Looks like it would have been exciting though......

TE - loved Michael Collins - will have to watch it again now :ninja:

Have you worked on any of Jim Sheridan's?

My friends horse was in Braveheart...lol.
a jummpity skippity beast if ever there was one, he just would not calm down.
And a chap I know was a driver for Mel Gibson while they were filming Braveheart in Kerry.Once the film 'wrapped'....he was given a present of the pajero jeep.
Extravagant or what!
:-)

TE - loved Michael Collins - will have to watch it again now :ninja:

Have you worked on any of Jim Sheridan's?

No unfortunately - My left food and In the name of the Father were both shot when I had moved over to england, and was working full time when The Boxer was being filmed.

Worked on his daughter Kirsten's film Disco Pigs with Cillian Murphy. Didn't understand a bit of it when we were filming it, and even less when I watched it later.....:laugh:

The best craic I've had on set has to have been 'Space Truckers' a straight to video film with Dennis Hopper and Steven Dorf. HUGE set in Ardmore Studios [the production hemorraged money] an intergalactic space station that was brilliant fun to work in every day pretending to be weightless, and great alien costumes - ah, happy days.......

Oooo I so know where you are coming from Woodstock - mine is a place very similar to Amity, and is in the movie Practical Magic which stars Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.......

My friend moved to Nantuckett a few years ago and lived there for a couple of years, she said it was JUST like in Jaws and Practical Magic.....

I yearn to live somewhere like that, but will have to settle for sunny old Warwick :laugh:

No unfortunately - My left food and In the name of the Father were both shot when I had moved over to england, and was working full time when The Boxer was being filmed.

Worked on his daughter Kirsten's film Disco Pigs with Cillian Murphy. Didn't understand a bit of it when we were filming it, and even less when I watched it later.....:laugh:

The best craic I've had on set has to have been 'Space Truckers' a straight to video film with Dennis Hopper and Steven Dorf. HUGE set in Ardmore Studios [the production hemorraged money] an intergalactic space station that was brilliant fun to work in every day pretending to be weightless, and great alien costumes - ah, happy days.......


You hungry, petal?

:w00t:

Shame you missed The Boxer. Tha auld fella worked on that one :good:

I suppose I better get with the thread.

White Nights (another great moment in movie history :bored: ) had a bit filmed in my home ground. It was supposed to be a plane crash in Russia so they used the local airbase. We got wasted the night before and missed it all.

I can't think what film I'd like to be in :huh: Although I did want to be Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap (the original one). And I do want to go on one of those cattle drives in Montana a la City Slickers.

I want to kill or maim:eek:some rampant zombies:ohmy:(...what??...they're already dead??...and there's no such thing anyway??...oh...k...) inside that really cool Mall in the original 70's version of Dawn of the Dead...

I'll have the big butch Black guy in front of me and the caucasian bloke watching my rear (not literally i'd hope), as we run amok from one shopping store to the next grabbing free chocolate, free guns, free mannequins (...things can get pretty darn desparate in those kind of confines), and practically free everything (or whatever you can manage to stash inside the wheelbarrow).

Then after such a frightful and adrenaline-rich experience, i'd like to walk around the set of Scrooge - the one starring Albert Finney, and then i'd nip over to 'Santa Carla' to have a wander around The Lost Boys shooting locations, enquiring whether it would be okay to just dangle precariously from a helicopter winch as we fly our way across a moonlit ocean towards that fairground...

watched 'The Admirable Crichton' at lunch yesterday, where toffs get shipwrecked with a capable butler who shows them how to get off their high horses / asses and work at making the island a home, and I remember seeing it as a kiddy and wanting to be on the island making a shelter and fire and catching fish and eating coconuts...


so I was into Survivor as an eight year old...:bag:

was just contemplating...


...a wee while ago...


...i think i'd like to be sat on the floor of that apartment of Billy Crystal's in the movie When Harry Met Sally, with him and Meg Ryan, and all three of us just chucking playing cards or whatever it was they were chucking across the room while each of us utters..."pecan pieeee!!...pecan pieeeeeee!" in really strange accents...

...i've always wanted to say "pecan pie" in a strange accent...



CAN PIEEEEE!" :w00t:

:w00t: "PECAN PIEE




























CAN PIEEEE!"...:good:

think of a film that has a secluded beach-setting far from civilization...and England World Cup Reports/News...:cool2:



:bored:...that's the film i'd like to be in...tonight...if it can be aranged...

...SWINING PORTUGESE!! :wallbash:
(1:29am...still not got over it!)