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The untold tale of bit players, doubles, Central Casting, and extras in American film
Is the chance to serve as an extra for Hitler’s favorite filmmaker a chance at life — or a detour on the path to inevitable extermination? One ordinary afternoon, fifeen-year-old Lilo and her family are suddenly picked up by Hitler’s police and imprisoned as part of the "Gypsy plague." Just when it seems certain that they will be headed to a labor camp, Lilo is chosen by filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to work as a film extra. Life on the film set is a bizarre alternate reality. The surroundings are glamorous, but Lilo and the other extras are barely fed, closely guarded, and kept in a locked barn when not on the movie set. And the beautiful, charming Riefenstahl is always present, answering the slightest provocation with malice, flaunting the power to assign prisoners to life or death. Lilo takes matters into her own hands, effecting an escape and running for her life. In this chilling but ultimately uplifting novel, Kathryn Lasky imagines the lives of the Gypsies who worked as extras for the real Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, giving readers a story of survival unlike any other.
This "fly on the wall" perspective of the film and television industry brings to life, in a very unique way, a world our modern American culture, for better or worse, can't seem to get enough of. What is it like for just your average everyday person, who has no special knowledge of the business, to spend a day on the set of a movie or hit television series working with everyone's favorite celebrities. It's fun and exciting! There's no question, and the author makes you feel like you're right there with him. However, it won't take you long to realize that there's a lot more to it than that too, and in the end, it may be the "everything else" that truly makes this story worth reading... It's a lot of fun!
For beginners or those who have worked in the movie and TV world for many years, this book gives a realistic look at how to become a movie extra. This is a low cost way to become familiar with how movies are made and how to get yourself into the scene. Written by a real Hollywood movie extra who appeared in more than 800 different productions, including movies, TV and commercials. He worked as a stand in, a photo double, a musician on camera and an actor as well as an extra. If you want to be on camera in real productions, this is the best way to begin. A few tips about wardrobe and special skills that can help you enter the world of background acting are thoroughly covered.
Books and films have skewered Hollywood's excesses, but none has ever portrayed one man's crazy vision of the future of big action/adventure films as Michael Shea's The Extra does. As over-the-top as Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles, as savagely dark as Robert Altman's The Player, and more violent than Rollerball, this is the story of the ultimate, so-insane-it-could-only-happen-in-Hollywood formula for success, a brave new way to bring the ultimate in excitement to the silver screen. Producer Val Margolian has found the motherlode of box-office gold with his new "live-death" films whose villains are extremely sophisticated, electronically controlled mechanical monsters. To give these live-action disaster films greater realism, he employs huge casts of extras, in addition to the stars. The large number of extras is important, because very few of them will survive the shoot. It's all perfectly legal, with training for the extras and long, detailed contracts indemnifying the film company against liability for the extras' injury or death. But why would anyone be crazy enough to risk his or her life to be an extra in such a potentially deadly situation? The extras do it because if they survive they'll be paid handsomely, and they can make even more if they destroy any of the animatronic monsters trying to stomp, chew, fry, or otherwise kill them. If they earn enough, they can move out of the Zoo--the vast slum that most of L.A. has become. They're fighting for a chance at a reasonable life. But first, they have to survive . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Entertaining, informative, funny, thought provoking, and possibly even controversial are all words that could very aptly describe whatas an extremely enjoyable read. This sort of afly on the walla perspective of the film and television industry brings to life, in a very unique way, a world our modern American culture, for better or worse, canat seem to get enough of. Whatas it like for just your average, everyday person, who has no special knowledge of the business, to spend the day on the set of a movie or hit television show working with everyoneas favorite celebrities? Itas fun and exciting! Thereas no question, and the author makes you feel like youare right there with him. However, it wonat take you long to realize thereas a lot more to it than that too, and in the end it may be the aeverything elsea that truly makes this story worth reading.
Pity the "extras." Mostly overlooked and forgotten. Especially those in the major Hollywood films 1913 to 1945--right through the dream factory's golden era. The struggles of extras to unionize were followed by internal struggles as the extras fought for a voice within that union. There were just too few jobs for far too many extras, some of whom were lured to Hollywood by what seemed to be rags-to-riches tales of stardom (but which were likely little more than industry publicity plants). Once lured to the film capital the reality was much different: low pay, little or no work, ripoffs from private employment agencies, and sexual harassment of the women, likely very much underreported. Some extras had special skills or language abilities, some had wardrobes replete with many period costumes.