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Monday, January 12, 2015
A little off the subject ....
I'm taking a marketing class and they're talking about celebrity endorsements. I forgot I have a clip of Sean C promoting my book. Have a listen... it's only a minute long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la3vOldCTJg
14 comments:
Julia
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Jody - how could you FORGET that Sean Connery endorsed your writing! Wow, I'm impressed. Just listened to his wonderful voice - did you take him up on that "are you seeing anyone?" question???
Seriously, Jody, we discussed this naughty joke of yours two years ago. You never did tell me who you got to impersonate Sean. He's good, though, I'll give you that.
@ Julia. I had it done a couple years ago. I just reposted it because it came up again from this class I'm taking and I thought maybe some of the newer followers hadn't seen it. I did forget about it and had to go dig it up. I wrote the script and a voice-over actor chose the pics and did the voice and also put the video together.
Julia, don't feel a dope - the voice actor's good and stars do do endorsements sometimes, right? Are you up for a bit of name dropping? I worked as an armourer on the film First Knight twenty-something years ago and Sean C was in it as King Arthur. Richard Gere was Lancelot and Julia Ormond Guinevere. It still gets shown on TV sometimes and we come over all nostalgic.
Yes, as armourers we were responsible for getting the actors in and out their costumes and doing running repairs when stuff got damaged during fight scenes. You're right, it was a good film but of all the ones I've worked on my favourite was Aliens, which was great fun.
@ Chris. I didn't know you had some an interesting job. I'm intrigued. Sure beats a desk job. There must be some good material there that you could turn into stories. That job, wouldn't that make a great TV sit-com?
Chris - You are so nice. And what fun to be an "armourer." One of our daughters lives in California and has a friend who works building movie sets. She told us he was "making rubble" out of styrofoam, while across the street from where they were shooting, there were piles of REAL rubble that "didn't look right" to the director! Fun work.
Thanks for the interest, ladies. This all happened a looong time ago and wasn't my full time job. It came about because we have a friend who makes armour for films. He'd just finished working on Excalibur when we met and we were fascinated by what he did. Since then he's done many more, including Last Days of Pompeii, Harry Potter, Jabberwocky, and Batman and Robin, although we haven't been on them all. No, I wasn't involved in any of the other Aliens films, Jody, just the one. It's still the best to my mind.
I laughed when you said about the rubble made of styrofoam, Julia. It's exactly right. In First Knight the props department had to 'make' a special tree because none of the ones in the forest we were shooting in looked quite right. It is fun work, definitely, and I miss it - but maybe not the night shoots!
14 comments:
Jody - how could you FORGET that Sean Connery endorsed your writing! Wow, I'm impressed. Just listened to his wonderful voice - did you take him up on that "are you seeing anyone?" question???
Seriously, Jody, we discussed this naughty joke of yours two years ago. You never did tell me who you got to impersonate Sean. He's good, though, I'll give you that.
Chris! I fell for it! Feel like such a dope. Good imitation, though. Jody: tsk, tsk, tsk.
@ Julia. I had it done a couple years ago. I just reposted it because it came up again from this class I'm taking and I thought maybe some of the newer followers hadn't seen it. I did forget about it and had to go dig it up. I wrote the script and a voice-over actor chose the pics and did the voice and also put the video together.
@ Chris. I don't remember who he was. I got him on line... at fiver.com
Julia, don't feel a dope - the voice actor's good and stars do do endorsements sometimes, right? Are you up for a bit of name dropping? I worked as an armourer on the film First Knight twenty-something years ago and Sean C was in it as King Arthur. Richard Gere was Lancelot and Julia Ormond Guinevere. It still gets shown on TV sometimes and we come over all nostalgic.
@ Chris. I love these details of fun things that we have experienced. First Knight was a great film. Did you get to see the men acting?
Tell us what an armourer is.
Yes, as armourers we were responsible for getting the actors in and out their costumes and doing running repairs when stuff got damaged during fight scenes. You're right, it was a good film but of all the ones I've worked on my favourite was Aliens, which was great fun.
@ Chris. I didn't know you had some an interesting job. I'm intrigued. Sure beats a desk job. There must be some good material there that you could turn into stories. That job, wouldn't that make a great TV sit-com?
@Chris. So give us a good story about Aliens. Did you work all the sequels, too?
Chris, Aliens is one of my favorite movies! I love the Alien and Predator franchises. "Affirmative!" You do have a cool job.
Chris - You are so nice. And what fun to be an "armourer." One of our daughters lives in California and has a friend who works building movie sets. She told us he was "making rubble" out of styrofoam, while across the street from where they were shooting, there were piles of REAL rubble that "didn't look right" to the director! Fun work.
@ Julie. Real rubble vs fake rubble... hahahaha. Gotta love those directors.
Thanks for the interest, ladies. This all happened a looong time ago and wasn't my full time job. It came about because we have a friend who makes armour for films. He'd just finished working on Excalibur when we met and we were fascinated by what he did. Since then he's done many more, including Last Days of Pompeii, Harry Potter, Jabberwocky, and Batman and Robin, although we haven't been on them all. No, I wasn't involved in any of the other Aliens films, Jody, just the one. It's still the best to my mind.
I laughed when you said about the rubble made of styrofoam, Julia. It's exactly right. In First Knight the props department had to 'make' a special tree because none of the ones in the forest we were shooting in looked quite right. It is fun work, definitely, and I miss it - but maybe not the night shoots!
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