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"standing on set with Born On The Bayou blaring as Sly directs Jet Li in a crazy guns a blazing scene."
wow how cool does that sound. Jet has committed himself much more to this project than I originally thought which is awesome, the more the better. I remember when he said months back that he would only commit to two weeks to a film so he must be enjoying himself. I wonder if Sly will actually use this tune for the actual sequence with Jet. Interesting indeed. Anyway heres the tune if u want to check it out and imagine what the scene might lool like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfNANBKkH2g
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- tonight we have a smorgasboard of gun fire, explosions and flying bodies..nice...let's blow that sucker up!!about 8 hours ago from web
Cult of Personality June 11, 2009 by ethelmae workingon a film shot on location is similar to a traveling circus…lots ofmoving parts, lots of different personalities, long hours and littletime for social engagement outside of work. So the cast and crewbecome a family of sorts – kinda dysfunctional like most families but afamily nonetheless. As in most families there is a hierarchy and theway I see it… the producers are the parents constantly telling you whatyou can and cannot do, the director is the teacher and lifeguide, the actors are the children and the crew – well I guess we arethe glue that holds it all together. when you have an adventure suchas the one we’ve had shooting The Expendables you tend to bond withyour co-workers. I am always fascinated by set dynamics – it neverfails… the oddest couples emerge…Eric Roberts and Steve Austin forexample – these guys are day and night but as Eric told me last night,Steve is now his new best friend. Their common ground – a raucoussense of humor among other things. Both of them are pretty freakinfunny and together they are hilarious. Terry and Randy are like the setambassadors – they always have a smile or kind word for everyone butthey both look like they could break you in half in a New York minute. Jason…ah Jason… well he’s the guy everyone wants to be or be with!! He is a really focused let’s make it better, rougher, meaner kind ofguy who just looks freakin awesome in that swat garb…holy cow people. He is longtime friends with Mickey – it was very cool having them onset together….Jet Li is the consummate professional. He is alwaysprepared always on point and totally immerses himself when on camera. I was taken aback by his keen sense of humor and his love forshopping!! I am also impressed with his commitment to his foundation(www.onefoundation.cn). There is only ONE Earth. Each of us has onlyONE life. We share the planet, and that makes us ONE global family. Byhelping others, we are also helping ourselves. Together we can overcomeany challenge or difficulty. We encourage you to join us and helpsupport the One Foundation. Pretty inspiring! Dolph is the one peoplelook up to. He reinvented himself and is very unassuming on set. Buthe is a big blonde Swedish dude so seriously how unassuming can yoube??? Then there’s the Slymeister…what can you say about this guy. Heis a visionary and risk taker who obviously loves what he does. Writing, directing and starring in a film of this scope is no easytask to be sure but he sees everything in his minds eye and what avision it is! The actors love him as a director and he seems verygenerous as an actor. We already know he can write. And he likes tokeep it real by doing most of his own stuntwork…which encourages theother actors to do the same. Pretty freakin amazing. He likes to keepthe vibe on set upbeat so our sound guys crank up the tunes…The Who,CCR, Tom Petty, Rick James, Led Zep, Stones etc etc etc…every once in awhile you’d hear him yell “keep up the momentum guys” as anotherexplosion goes off or another body goes flying. I love my life.
As for the crew I must say there are very few on this team I don’tlike but some of my faves are…Celestina who allows me to vent and ranton occasion, Wes the Visual Effects God, Amy who went to Jesus with mein Brazil, Audrey & Kent the prop masters, Mark the key grip, mygirl Shannon who runs basecamp and kept me sane in Brazil, the “hairgirls” Nikki and Kristi, Mustaffa the wonder of wardrobe, the crazyassed crafty guys Mike & Paul and almost all of of transpo…what ahilarious bunch of characters they are! And I cant forget my peeps inthe production office who always take care of me…Ashley, Amy and Casey.But my absolute faves are the beauttiful Giselle and Super PA Craig. Ifeel pretty lucky to be able to work with such a cool group.
Last night was interesting…we started with Jet Li in the back of apick up truck shooting, running and jumping then movedto the palace grounds for lots of gunfire and explosions. On more thanone occasion the ADs had to move crew out of the way so as not to gethit by exploding grenades…we also had to be mindful of the hundreds ofbullets being fired by nearly 100 extras and of course the totally outof control big mama Terry Crews blasts his way to hell with. The explosions looked pretty cool as well but the dust it kicks upcontains Fullers Earth which is NASTY NASTY NASTY…and hard to get offyour skin and clothes. And the fireballs our SFX team created weren’tany sissy fires…they went big…real big. Tonight we have more of thesame…Next week we enter the homestretch as we wrap (I think) on June26th. Looks like we are going to have some press visit us when weshoot the Somalian pirate scenes…we will also do theEPK interviews and we may have a visit from an online outlet – waitingfor confirmation. And did I mention we are shooting French hourstonight? No lunch break and we can only work 10 hours…yippeee…we haveto wrap by 6am…ok enough…more later. Oh and to you know who youare…don’t hold your breath…
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