Best Things

Today I decided to get crew to tell me some of the best things about working on this movie.  I got a lot, and I agree with pretty much all of them, or at least the ones I understand.  Here they are:

• 1st AD’s and Key PAs.
• All the free food you want.
• Not only is every day different, every minute is different and Iraq and maps of Africa.
• You get lights, all kinds of lights-you can break em’ and knock stuff over. And there’s the weirdest stuff said on the headsets, like “can you fly me some blood?” The props are good.  Don’t get to see skinned/burned bodies or have a whole living room filled with groceries filled with beans every day.
• Blood in copius amounts.
• Amanda Tong.
• The art lounge.
• Schnappsclapper.
• Crafty.
• Crafty.
• Poindexter.
• Crew.
• The pitz of Fritz (?!)
• Sitting in a director’s chair.
• My face hurts when I go home..in a good way.
• Wrap party
• David Cooper
• C-47 clippings
• Construction? Cones
• Bandanna Day
• Ocho Ocho Ocho!
• Wrapped panties
• Points
• Pine tree perfume.
• Getting Married
• Slumber parties
• Crafty
• Steady Cam (Will Eichler)
• “fuckin’ cranberries!”
• crew
• Helpful PAs (they carry heavy things)
• Music on channel 16
• Art dept. lounge (mood lighting & couch)
• Quote of the day
• When Cooper said “no!”
• 3’s
• Dave as Eustice!
• Laptop parties
• “Flashing!” pictures of course
• Ole’ Henderson
• Great extent of collective movie knowledge
• Funny impersonations
• Room tone
• Dance parties
• “fuckin cranberries!”
• Hobo Octobo beer
• Flaky Bob cereal
• April Showler
• “I do what I want-you want a beer?”
• Being hungover
• cha cha
• mid-afternoon 10-2
• keying
• mediterasian females
• “markel”
• Roger’s face in frame
• Working with Patrick (aw)
• Seeing Jesse’s sweet ass every day
• Taking naps at lunch with 3 dudes
• Working with and staring at sexy PAs
• Getting no sleep and working the next day
• Stealing Hugh’s ice tea
• Jesse keying while 10-2
• Special stock of 700T
• Slumber parties at the warehouse
• Sleeping with the wolf-pack (E squad) at lunch
• Staring at Patrick’s muscles
• James Mann’s gangster swagger
• Patrick’s dance moves
• Cleverly named C-47s
• Bandannas
• Air freshening G&E
• Zach B’s marathon condor ride back to the warehouse
• The entire group of actors playing “the victims”
• Jesse James Cooper (son of Jesse and James)
• Keying for 5min at a time
• Dr.Doom takes a boat ride
• Eichler stretching
• Weekends
• Matt blowing a burp in my face.
• Roger’s hair
• Travis singing
• Being an extra at the market
• Set/Hawaiian drinks
• sweating a lot
• Cast at conference center, esp girl with eye stab.
• sweet sfx make up
• Leah’s pierced finger
• James Mann x2
• Roger
• Mike Kelly
• Hillbilly grip suits
• Jack Stacking

Phew.  There were some repeats, I know.  I think the repetitiveness helps ensure how great they are.  Feel free to let me know any more that got left out!  It really has been a wonderful shoot and I love working with everybody.  We only have a few days left too, so I want to make the best of it. 

-pa the pa