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Be an extra in a British WWII movie
« on: 31-01-2011, 14:01:58 »
unfirtunately it does requirE a small donation  :o of 800 quid on your part.  but hey. i was like, wow - cool, someone on FH2 might like this...

If there is any real rolling interest let me know and I'll join you in signing up, don't want to do this on my own :)

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Re: Be an extra in a British WWII movie
« Reply #1 on: 31-01-2011, 15:01:38 »
Not as epic as iron sky, but i might donate some quids
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Re: Be an extra in a British WWII movie
« Reply #2 on: 31-01-2011, 16:01:00 »
Got a discount for you, 500 quid for being only an extra. Till February 12th so hurry!

Would be awesome to work on something like that but what an insane amount of cash. Usually it's the opposite, you get paid for being an extra.

Not as epic as iron sky, but i might donate some quids
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Re: Be an extra in a British WWII movie
« Reply #3 on: 31-01-2011, 16:01:07 »
BUT IT HAS SPACE NAZIS
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Re: Be an extra in a British WWII movie
« Reply #4 on: 31-01-2011, 16:01:28 »
Here in Norway, extras don't get paid at all. But hey, it's interesting to experience the whole process, so I didn't mind when I was an extra. It was 6 hours of waiting and 30 minutes of shooting. The waiting was the bad part, but the endless supply of soda was the good part  ;D

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Re: Be an extra in a British WWII movie
« Reply #5 on: 31-01-2011, 16:01:46 »
BUT IT HAS SPACE NAZIS
Is this handsome man in colonel's uniform one of the extras or is he going to warn you about threads that get too silly and then locked and whatnot?

The link, it is interesting.
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Re: Be an extra in a British WWII movie
« Reply #6 on: 31-01-2011, 17:01:29 »
BUT IT HAS SPACE NAZIS
Is this handsome man in colonel's uniform one of the extras or is he going to warn you about threads that get too silly and then locked and whatnot?

The link, it is interesting.

Thanks for the support, I thought it was awesome, it would be great to see a thread (not for this film perhaps) but for another WW2 - "FH2 forumers on the Big Screen".

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Re: Be an extra in a British WWII movie
« Reply #7 on: 31-01-2011, 18:01:15 »
Interesting idea, hope it goes well

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Re: Be an extra in a British WWII movie
« Reply #8 on: 31-01-2011, 20:01:44 »
Can't spare the money alas, but I'd love to. An old school teacher of mine was an extra in The Assault / De Aanslag from the book by Harry Mulish. He think he ran away in the centre of a street during a razzia scene or something.

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Re: Be an extra in a British WWII movie
« Reply #9 on: 31-01-2011, 21:01:25 »
I, for one, do not think the premise of this "movie" is very interesting at all. From their website it sounds like they simply want to do a "world war 2" movie in which the British are painted as the heroes (instead of the traditional Hollywood "Americans save the day"). So they go around looking for a historical scenario in which a British soldier did something heroic and then they want to make a movie out of this very basic scenario. That's not how you make a movie.

I'm not surprised they're not getting anyone to invest large amounts of money into this.

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Re: Be an extra in a British WWII movie
« Reply #10 on: 31-01-2011, 21:01:05 »
Paying $1,200 for something someone is usually paid for is a little too steep for someone without a job or means of transportation over a 4,000 mile distance.  I would be happy to otherwise.

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Re: Be an extra in a British WWII movie
« Reply #11 on: 31-01-2011, 21:01:36 »
Good luck for them with their movie that's going to be essentially a docudrama without a real story. The simple reason why the media is full of "AMURICA WUN WW2!!!½½½!111!" is because the first advice to a storyteller is that if you have to choose between a legend and a true story, tell the legend.

America's singlehanded victory on the Western Front is a carefully constructed myth, and that's why it has been so succesful even outside the US. In order to trump that, you need to create another myth, or legend, and tell that instead. The Britons were on to something, when they (even post-war) blew the Battle of Britain out of all proportions, but did not have the poker face (or finances) to continue on that path.*

Were I ever to do a WW2 movie, well, given reasonably large budget, I do have an idea for telling a legend, and that has something to do with a certain airplane I have obsession with...

*) Finnish males might differ, for decades they've been raised on translated editions of British Commando comics, where the Britons win even the Pacific War single-handedly, and Americans are only included as a mysterious source of war materiel (if even that) or (even more rarely) as a lone supporting character that's always either a jovial comic relief or an arrogant by-the-books officer. In one particular case a recurring character Battler Britton (sic) even wins the Battle of Stalingrad (almost single-handedly, with a little help from stereotypical Soviets) when flying a Fairey bloody Swordfish of all things...

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Re: Be an extra in a British WWII movie
« Reply #12 on: 31-01-2011, 23:01:02 »
A bit off-topic here but damn, Kelmola.

Good post!  ;D

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Re: Be an extra in a British WWII movie
« Reply #13 on: 31-01-2011, 23:01:51 »
Um, paying to be an extra? That makes no sense at all. You guys realize being an extra is an ACTUAL JOB that most people GET PAYED TO DO. This is a total scam to round up investors.
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Re: Be an extra in a British WWII movie
« Reply #14 on: 01-02-2011, 00:02:00 »
It's not a movie as far as I can gather. It is a planned 6-part docu-drama/drama.