if you happen to be in Los Angeles...
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cornhuskers4ever
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I wonder what "Yes Man" is going to be about? I hope that Jim Carey is a Cornhusker Fan and doesn't try to make us look like a bunch of hillbillies.
How do you cast people to depict Fans that bleed scarlet red? Possibly the "Californians for Nebraska" will try to be cast into the movie.
How do you cast people to depict Fans that bleed scarlet red? Possibly the "Californians for Nebraska" will try to be cast into the movie.
hack
All-Conference
it is the story of about a guy who challenges himself 'yes' to every opportunity that's presented to him over the course of a year. at one point, he's offered the chance to attend a nebraska football game.
hence, the cattle call for big red fans. i guess they're gonna fill at the Coliseum which sucks as the Coliseum is NOTHING like Memorial Stadium.
hence, the cattle call for big red fans. i guess they're gonna fill at the Coliseum which sucks as the Coliseum is NOTHING like Memorial Stadium.
Cy the Cyclone
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I hope at some point in the movie, someone tells the "guy" to go f*** himself. That would be worth the price of admission.
walksalone
Heisman Trophy Winner
Jim Carrey is one of the mo's to get loaded up on the partridge family bus, and sent over a cliff...
BIGREDIOWAN
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This kinda pisses me off to be honest with all of you. I find it disrespectful that they are going to film this in the Coliseum! Why don't they just come to Nebraska ask the fans of Nebraska to show up and be done with it. I understand they already filmed here, but I don't like the fact that they are going to film this in another stadium. Maybe I'm overracting??? :angry:
1) Located where the film production is based.
2) Weather, nice and sunny here.
These are reaction shots of the crowd, close-ups, you don't need a whole staduim for this.
I figured what the hell, put an application in. Let you know how it turns out.
BIGREDIOWAN
Mods
Yeah, but Nebraska football is about cold cold weather!!!! :lol: Yeah, definately let us know how it turns out. :thumbs
Pt. 1
After responding a the required emails and making the required calls I headed to the LA coleseum on the morning of the 11th. I arrive about 45 minutes early. I follow the scattered trail of red shirts to a series of tables and a crowd of people obviously not "N", wearing just different shades of red shirts, USC's red mostly. There are people with bullhorns directing traffic calling for the 10:30 and 10 o'clock "calls", backgrounds. I find a line but just then a guy calls for "11:00 alumni". I guess that's my group (although I graduated from Creighton). A group of us follow him into a large tent. There's a special area roped off for just the "alumni", the people who signed up through Huskerpedia and me. We're told just to relax and eat breakfast. Nice!
After we eat we line up and get forms to fill out. Then we're supposed to go buy wardrobe and be looked over. There are approximately people in all sorts of get-ups, the red and white striped overalls, A guy with a big red N on the front of his overalls and a red painted straw hat looking like a perfect middle-aged herbie Husker. My favorite was a guy in an old-school red sports jacket, a red tie that said "Nebraska" and a small brimmed casual red dress hat with a white N on it (what the better dressed fan would wear in the late 60's early 70's). He looked just like my dad and uncles. The guy next to me breaks out some kind of red fright wig (they like it). And they are fans of the jacket I'm wearing (the vasity one with the 5 footballs on the sleeves for each NC). There's about every age group EXCEPT no one under 18, kinda strange for a Nebraska game.
Suddenly people begin filling out I follow but apparently they wanted just a few tables. As the group of 15-20 people I'm in turns back a guy with a small handheld camera stops us. Since no one is supposed to bring cameras I assume he's with the production. He asks us to do a few cheers so we do "GO BIG RED", "HUSKER"/"POWER". That "Gooooo biiiiig Reeed!" "GO BIG RED." Then he asks us to do the school fight song. We do it, but of course no one knows all the words so in the end we're just going "NA-NA, NA-NA-NA, NA-NA-NA, NA-NA-NA. etc." We have a good laugh at our own ineptness and go back into the tent. I sit near the front this time so I can hear the announcements.
About 5 minutes later they ask for 25 more people so I hustle to the front and we're led into the Coliseum. They have a large group of the 'normal" extras seated and a few rows open. The stars stand-ins are sitting there and they are filling in around them. They begin to position us, they put me right in front of Jim's stand-in at first.. Later they decide not to have people in front but I end up a row behind and 2-3 seats over from where the actors will be. From then one I'm one of the "Jim" or "Hero" people. The assistant director is giving nicknames to people "Overalls""Facepainters". The guy in the red suit is first called leprechaun (he does look like one) someone suggests "Devaney" but she thinks they said "Fanny", finally they settle on "Coach". She says that even though this is where USC plays and the campus is across the street they'd have trouble getting 200 people to show up for a shot. Someone asks about Raider fans (the Raiders played here). She says if they called up Raider fans SHE wouldn't show up.
After an hour or so of repositioning the crowd the director wants to start rehersing it. He has them cheering and looking down the field like they're watching a play or the players are coming out on the field using apparently staff names "Ladies and gentlemen your Huskers! ... Scott Feldstien ...!" <Roar>. He then has them start with the "GO BIG RED" and the Nebraska part of the crowd goes wild. The Coliseum echos and it sounds like a lot more than a few hundred people. He calls "cut" they keep going. "GO BIG RED" I hear one exasperated "normal" extra say "HE SAID CUT!" as she flopped down into her seat.
After responding a the required emails and making the required calls I headed to the LA coleseum on the morning of the 11th. I arrive about 45 minutes early. I follow the scattered trail of red shirts to a series of tables and a crowd of people obviously not "N", wearing just different shades of red shirts, USC's red mostly. There are people with bullhorns directing traffic calling for the 10:30 and 10 o'clock "calls", backgrounds. I find a line but just then a guy calls for "11:00 alumni". I guess that's my group (although I graduated from Creighton). A group of us follow him into a large tent. There's a special area roped off for just the "alumni", the people who signed up through Huskerpedia and me. We're told just to relax and eat breakfast. Nice!
After we eat we line up and get forms to fill out. Then we're supposed to go buy wardrobe and be looked over. There are approximately people in all sorts of get-ups, the red and white striped overalls, A guy with a big red N on the front of his overalls and a red painted straw hat looking like a perfect middle-aged herbie Husker. My favorite was a guy in an old-school red sports jacket, a red tie that said "Nebraska" and a small brimmed casual red dress hat with a white N on it (what the better dressed fan would wear in the late 60's early 70's). He looked just like my dad and uncles. The guy next to me breaks out some kind of red fright wig (they like it). And they are fans of the jacket I'm wearing (the vasity one with the 5 footballs on the sleeves for each NC). There's about every age group EXCEPT no one under 18, kinda strange for a Nebraska game.
Suddenly people begin filling out I follow but apparently they wanted just a few tables. As the group of 15-20 people I'm in turns back a guy with a small handheld camera stops us. Since no one is supposed to bring cameras I assume he's with the production. He asks us to do a few cheers so we do "GO BIG RED", "HUSKER"/"POWER". That "Gooooo biiiiig Reeed!" "GO BIG RED." Then he asks us to do the school fight song. We do it, but of course no one knows all the words so in the end we're just going "NA-NA, NA-NA-NA, NA-NA-NA, NA-NA-NA. etc." We have a good laugh at our own ineptness and go back into the tent. I sit near the front this time so I can hear the announcements.
About 5 minutes later they ask for 25 more people so I hustle to the front and we're led into the Coliseum. They have a large group of the 'normal" extras seated and a few rows open. The stars stand-ins are sitting there and they are filling in around them. They begin to position us, they put me right in front of Jim's stand-in at first.. Later they decide not to have people in front but I end up a row behind and 2-3 seats over from where the actors will be. From then one I'm one of the "Jim" or "Hero" people. The assistant director is giving nicknames to people "Overalls""Facepainters". The guy in the red suit is first called leprechaun (he does look like one) someone suggests "Devaney" but she thinks they said "Fanny", finally they settle on "Coach". She says that even though this is where USC plays and the campus is across the street they'd have trouble getting 200 people to show up for a shot. Someone asks about Raider fans (the Raiders played here). She says if they called up Raider fans SHE wouldn't show up.
After an hour or so of repositioning the crowd the director wants to start rehersing it. He has them cheering and looking down the field like they're watching a play or the players are coming out on the field using apparently staff names "Ladies and gentlemen your Huskers! ... Scott Feldstien ...!" <Roar>. He then has them start with the "GO BIG RED" and the Nebraska part of the crowd goes wild. The Coliseum echos and it sounds like a lot more than a few hundred people. He calls "cut" they keep going. "GO BIG RED" I hear one exasperated "normal" extra say "HE SAID CUT!" as she flopped down into her seat.
Pt 2 (The Good part)
Finally Jim appears on the field. I won't say how he's .. attired. Lets just say if anyone ever came close to channeling the primal maniac Husker Spirit its Jim today. A new Husker icon is born. Lop the Sower off the capital building and replace it with a new statue in his likeness. This alone is worth the price of admission for a Husker fan. The fans break out in applause. He smiles broadly and climbs a ladder to face the crowd and starts a chant of "GO BIG RED!" again the stadium echoes. "Husker!""POWER!" "Husker!""POWER!" He spreads his arms "I STILL BELIEVE!!!" <THE CROWD ROARS> "THE HUSKERS WILL RISE FROM THE ASHES!!! ..." <ROAR> He then holds up a part of his attire and says "This was my idea!" More cheers. Its perfect! Someone stars a "JIM!" "POWER" cheer. The directing staff looks very pleased (they appeared delighted with the crowd reaction all day long). They then seat him and his co-star Zooey Deschanel, who recently played Dorothy on the SCFI channel's "Tinman".
The first shot is just everyone saying "Go big Red" while Jim reacts. I've never said "GO BIG RED" so long and so loud in my life. They place a woman in her late 50's early 60's next to Jim that he hugs as part of his celebration. After the cut he tells her "Next time we're making out!" She's a little stunned but the man behind her is excited and clapping, Jim points at him with a wild gleem in his eye. We do a second cut, "GO BIG RED! GO BIG RED! GO BIG RED! GO BIG RED!" it goes on for a few minutes. When the director calls cut! Jim shouts "There's blood in my throat!" I know what he means, I'm winded.
Then they have to move in for a close-up. We've been told not to initiate conversation or ask for autographs but these two are very friendly (in fact everyone on the production has been unreally friendly to us). Jim turns and faces the crowd says "You know, we did a shot at Lincoln ... then THE GAME happened. I guess the coach got fired?" Some lady claps and says "YAY!" theres a smattering of applause and laughter. Jim's surprised and Zooey's a little incredulous "Yay? The coach is fired?" (Yay indeed!). "And you're all local?" I guess some people flew in and there's 4 people who drove from Arizona. "You guys did that?" Someone says "This is our bowl game!" more cheers/ laughs. I don't know if they understood the reference.
We do 2 close-up reaction shots and I guess Jim is done. There are a few attractive female extras sprinkled in the crowd since its mostly male. I hear one girl say "Its scary when you're inside the crowd." While they move us around Jim practices field goals with some football player background actors. I think he made a few. I believe he's done for the day.
Finally Jim appears on the field. I won't say how he's .. attired. Lets just say if anyone ever came close to channeling the primal maniac Husker Spirit its Jim today. A new Husker icon is born. Lop the Sower off the capital building and replace it with a new statue in his likeness. This alone is worth the price of admission for a Husker fan. The fans break out in applause. He smiles broadly and climbs a ladder to face the crowd and starts a chant of "GO BIG RED!" again the stadium echoes. "Husker!""POWER!" "Husker!""POWER!" He spreads his arms "I STILL BELIEVE!!!" <THE CROWD ROARS> "THE HUSKERS WILL RISE FROM THE ASHES!!! ..." <ROAR> He then holds up a part of his attire and says "This was my idea!" More cheers. Its perfect! Someone stars a "JIM!" "POWER" cheer. The directing staff looks very pleased (they appeared delighted with the crowd reaction all day long). They then seat him and his co-star Zooey Deschanel, who recently played Dorothy on the SCFI channel's "Tinman".
The first shot is just everyone saying "Go big Red" while Jim reacts. I've never said "GO BIG RED" so long and so loud in my life. They place a woman in her late 50's early 60's next to Jim that he hugs as part of his celebration. After the cut he tells her "Next time we're making out!" She's a little stunned but the man behind her is excited and clapping, Jim points at him with a wild gleem in his eye. We do a second cut, "GO BIG RED! GO BIG RED! GO BIG RED! GO BIG RED!" it goes on for a few minutes. When the director calls cut! Jim shouts "There's blood in my throat!" I know what he means, I'm winded.
Then they have to move in for a close-up. We've been told not to initiate conversation or ask for autographs but these two are very friendly (in fact everyone on the production has been unreally friendly to us). Jim turns and faces the crowd says "You know, we did a shot at Lincoln ... then THE GAME happened. I guess the coach got fired?" Some lady claps and says "YAY!" theres a smattering of applause and laughter. Jim's surprised and Zooey's a little incredulous "Yay? The coach is fired?" (Yay indeed!). "And you're all local?" I guess some people flew in and there's 4 people who drove from Arizona. "You guys did that?" Someone says "This is our bowl game!" more cheers/ laughs. I don't know if they understood the reference.
We do 2 close-up reaction shots and I guess Jim is done. There are a few attractive female extras sprinkled in the crowd since its mostly male. I hear one girl say "Its scary when you're inside the crowd." While they move us around Jim practices field goals with some football player background actors. I think he made a few. I believe he's done for the day.
Pt. 3
The 3rd shot is with the crowd more spread out and homoginized. They put more normal extras in with us (they're just thrilled). The girl who was scared is talking to some guys behind me learning about Nebraska, mostly the conversation revolves around Runzas and where you could get them or how you could make them. She does seem intrigued. We had to do this scene about 6-8 times. After the first take the director explains to the football players that they're supposed to be big bad and fired up, he punctuates his point by pounding the shoulderpad of one actor, HARD! I hear "...like they're coached by Callahan." <Laughter>.
And there's cheerleaders forming a 3 tiered pyramid. I think they had to do that about a dozen times. The director asks them to pause before they start or isn't there something they can do like "Ready? OKAY!" only he is audible but apparently they said no there's nothing that can be done. He jokes "I know it can be done because I saw it on "Bring it on!" <Laughter and applause>.
I now seated between a bored woman IN GREEN ( well she's wearing a red shirt under that) on my left with her nose buried in a book and another girl in some off-red shirt. After one take I plop down the girl on the right says she's really tired too. I say, "what after being a Husker fan for only 3-4 hours?" She claims to be "A Longhorn." The guy next to her says "Im a CU grad this is tough for me." A few people turn to look at him. She's cold and wishes she had that "Huskies" blanket she saw earlier.
"Huskers!" I remind her.
"Same difference!" She says.
"So, I'm thinking after today you don't want to hear the words "Go Big Red" again?" I ask. She gives me a look that says "as if she ever wanted to"
One last take, the football players have quit running before they're supposed to ... hmmmmn. The players got more than one catcall from from the stands encouraging them to act like Huskers. It goes on a long time. "GO BIG RED! GO BIG RED! " so long I've been pumping my right arm I have to change to my left. "GO BIG RED! GO BIG RED! " I'm just croaking it out now. "GO BIG RED! GO BIG RED! ", eventually I just mouth it. "Cut". We're done. The director thanks us for our enthusiasm. They have food for us back at the tent and they don't cut corners when it comes to feeding you. However I just eat a little and head for home its almost rush hour in LA, 4:45 on friday and I'd like to beat the traffic home.
The 3rd shot is with the crowd more spread out and homoginized. They put more normal extras in with us (they're just thrilled). The girl who was scared is talking to some guys behind me learning about Nebraska, mostly the conversation revolves around Runzas and where you could get them or how you could make them. She does seem intrigued. We had to do this scene about 6-8 times. After the first take the director explains to the football players that they're supposed to be big bad and fired up, he punctuates his point by pounding the shoulderpad of one actor, HARD! I hear "...like they're coached by Callahan." <Laughter>.
And there's cheerleaders forming a 3 tiered pyramid. I think they had to do that about a dozen times. The director asks them to pause before they start or isn't there something they can do like "Ready? OKAY!" only he is audible but apparently they said no there's nothing that can be done. He jokes "I know it can be done because I saw it on "Bring it on!" <Laughter and applause>.
I now seated between a bored woman IN GREEN ( well she's wearing a red shirt under that) on my left with her nose buried in a book and another girl in some off-red shirt. After one take I plop down the girl on the right says she's really tired too. I say, "what after being a Husker fan for only 3-4 hours?" She claims to be "A Longhorn." The guy next to her says "Im a CU grad this is tough for me." A few people turn to look at him. She's cold and wishes she had that "Huskies" blanket she saw earlier.
"Huskers!" I remind her.
"Same difference!" She says.
"So, I'm thinking after today you don't want to hear the words "Go Big Red" again?" I ask. She gives me a look that says "as if she ever wanted to"
One last take, the football players have quit running before they're supposed to ... hmmmmn. The players got more than one catcall from from the stands encouraging them to act like Huskers. It goes on a long time. "GO BIG RED! GO BIG RED! " so long I've been pumping my right arm I have to change to my left. "GO BIG RED! GO BIG RED! " I'm just croaking it out now. "GO BIG RED! GO BIG RED! ", eventually I just mouth it. "Cut". We're done. The director thanks us for our enthusiasm. They have food for us back at the tent and they don't cut corners when it comes to feeding you. However I just eat a little and head for home its almost rush hour in LA, 4:45 on friday and I'd like to beat the traffic home.
huskerfan500
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Thanks for sharing, that is interesting, did they say when the movie was coming out?
I also forgot were they at the USC game or the Nevada game to film the wide shots?
I also forgot were they at the USC game or the Nevada game to film the wide shots?