I had to put up with celebrities such as the incredibly spoiled "JLo" when she came to Germany.
She had a tantrum because all the furniture in her hotel suite was not virgin white - as she had demanded. We also provided Evian water, but it was cold, and not at "room temperature." She threw the bottle of water at the wall.
If you are making a war movie, then make one. Kudos to the director for not babying the actors.
That's the sort of attitude that leads to deaths like those on the set of Twilight Zone The Movie.
Werner Herzog does some foolish things on the set but he takes the same risks himself.
Hong Kong films had death defying stunts in them because the film industry there and audiences expected them. It's why Jackie Chan's American films pale in comparison. Jackie took a very bad fall in HK and the cameraman's first thought was to save the camera, not the lead actor.
Ping (I'm planning to see it Tuesday)
LOL!
Great director, expecting a wonderful movie.
I seem to remember that before they began shooting Saving Private Ryan they put Tom Hanks, Barry Pepper, and all the rest of the actors in the squad through a two week boot-camp-like deal where they were living in the mud, sleeping in the rain, eating bad food, and going through all the stuff soldiers in France were forced to go through. Supposedly about half way through, just about all the younger ones were fed up and went to Hanks to see if he could do something about it. Hanks basically said, "Everyone who wants to end it now raise their hand" and they all raised their hand. Then Hanks said, "Opposed" and raised his hand. Then he said "Motion defeated" and went back to work.
"Battered from a blast, the startled stars would voice their surprise to Eastwood after a take"
bet that beach smelled bad
How old is Mr. Pepper? How old are the other actors? I'm not suggesting that older actors can't play teenagers . . . just curious.
BUMP!
I can only wonder what SAG will say about this.
Quick, somebody ban squibs!!!!
Since I have not yet seen the movie, was Ira Hayes mentioned at all?
I am a pampered baby boomer, too young for Vietnam, too old for anything else, 46 and have never had my life on the line (well, except for an armed robbery in a Radio Shack I was working at twenty years ago.) But mostly, the roughest thing I have been in has been an occasional car accident.
This game really made me appriciate what our fathers (and theirs before them, for that matter) lived through. Even in simulation, the experience of walking through a South Pacific jungle, listening for the snap of a twig, and wondering if death was up in the trees, was an education for me.
Many of us in here really have no idea. We respect the military and their bravery and sacrifice, but we have no idea of what it is to really go through it. How much worse must it be for the defeatocrats, the Europe-lovers, the Lefties and the "journalists" who blather on about "what America REALLY should be doing right now."
If you get a chance, play this game. And I'd like to see all the nay-sayers dropped in the middle of a real South Pacific jungle sixty plus years ago to see what real bravery is.
Now that's what I call method acting!
Good thing Eastwood didn't do that to terrorists.
He'd be in jail.
"whisked off on a propaganda tour to raise money for the war effort"
Think I'll pass.
I’m not leaving because I know you - and you’ll shoot the day without me! I won’t be in the movie! He laughed and said, ‘Good, because it’s a long way from your heart.
Hollywood can the left can stick that in their pipes and smoke it.
Looks like Barry Pepper has managed to expunge Battlefield Earth from his past. Good for him.