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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Jan 2, 2011 18:56:06 GMT -5
Cameron Diaz and Cameron Crowe appear as extras on a train in Minority Report. No lines. Just on the train.
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Post by Paco on Jan 2, 2011 23:01:53 GMT -5
Just saw Clark Duke in the background of the final party in Superbad.
Cera probably got him in.
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Post by JIMBOB on Jan 3, 2011 2:05:54 GMT -5
Michael Myers in Inglorious Basterds. Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder I'd say Tom had a pretty big role in TT. Im thinking more along the lines of Tom Jane in Spider Man 2 (where you can barely see him in the background). What scene is he in? I'd like to check my DVD copy to see.
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Post by Dr. Mantis Toboggan on Jan 3, 2011 2:10:39 GMT -5
I don't recall him having any lines but his character did actually have a very important role in the film, as he was the one who killed the Dr. Cocteau character that Simon Phoenix couldn't. Now you want an extra in Demolition Man (even if it was before he became a known name), Jack Black is one of Dennis Leary's minions. If you want to bring up Jesse Ventura as an extra, he plays a security guard bringing Mr. Freeze to his cell in Batman and Robin. I know he has at least one line.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 3, 2011 2:36:30 GMT -5
Mindf***! Anthony Daniels in Star Wars: Episode II. He plays a fancy pants guy in the first sequence, the bar scene part. Actually, an extra is somebody who has 2 or less lines. They are classified as extras because once somebody says more than 2 lines in a movie they are eligible to sign up for SAG.(screen actors guild) This can be changed if the person is actually listed as a main star (ex: Teller from Penn and Teller) But for the most part is based on the number of lines the person has. It's all about money Not sure if you're just using Teller as an example because he rarely speaks, but he DOES speak in Penn & Teller Get Killed. He just throws his voice, so you don't hear his actual voice.
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Post by Vampiro138 on Jan 3, 2011 2:44:02 GMT -5
i believe both brad pitt and matt damon were in "confessions of a dangerous mind" as contestants on "the dating game" they had no lines, you just saw them sitting there.
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Post by Cela on Jan 3, 2011 2:45:20 GMT -5
Mindf***! Anthony Daniels in Star Wars: Episode II. He plays a fancy pants guy in the first sequence, the bar scene part. Actually, an extra is somebody who has 2 or less lines. They are classified as extras because once somebody says more than 2 lines in a movie they are eligible to sign up for SAG.(screen actors guild) This can be changed if the person is actually listed as a main star (ex: Teller from Penn and Teller) But for the most part is based on the number of lines the person has. It's all about money An extra applies only to those with no lines. People with a line, any line, are day players. Meanwhile back on subject, some of the Cardinals in Angels and Demons were famous and didn't speak.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 3, 2011 2:49:01 GMT -5
Actually, an extra is somebody who has 2 or less lines. They are classified as extras because once somebody says more than 2 lines in a movie they are eligible to sign up for SAG.(screen actors guild) This can be changed if the person is actually listed as a main star (ex: Teller from Penn and Teller) But for the most part is based on the number of lines the person has. It's all about money An extra applies only to those with no lines. People with a line, any line, are day players. Meanwhile back on subject, some of the Cardinals in Angels and Demons were famous and didn't speak. Even if the line is "These pretzels are making me thirsty?"
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Post by Cela on Jan 3, 2011 3:23:26 GMT -5
An extra applies only to those with no lines. People with a line, any line, are day players. Meanwhile back on subject, some of the Cardinals in Angels and Demons were famous and didn't speak. Even if the line is "These pretzels are making me thirsty?" Yep, I do this for a living. Only the best extras can communicate the pretzel thirst without words.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jan 3, 2011 4:31:33 GMT -5
I don't know if they qualify, but Guns'N'Roses appeared in "The Dead Pool" twice, first at the beginning when Jim Carrey dies, and later on the set of the horror movie (Slash fires the speargun). No lines, but their part might be considered being more than just 'extras'.
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Jan 3, 2011 4:48:36 GMT -5
Alfred Hitchcock in all of his movies falls under this.
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Post by Bram wants to 'urt you on Jan 3, 2011 10:04:18 GMT -5
Robert Altman's "The Player", starring Tim Robbins. The film had a huge cast of top stars as extras, most of them actually playing themselves (the film's about the darker side of the movie industry). And most of them also appeared for free in the movie, such was the level of regard for Altman and his work.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jan 3, 2011 11:05:55 GMT -5
Jackie Chan in The Protector. Tony Jaa bumps into him and they have a brief fight stance/apologizing nod exchange.
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Jan 3, 2011 11:45:37 GMT -5
Ok people. Extras do not have lines. They are in group or background shots and nothing more. Drew Barrymore wasn't a cameo in Scream, nor was she an extra. She was one of the STARS. Rob Schnider in every Adam Sandler movie ever is not an extra or cameo. His characters are in it throughout and have lines. Those are supporting roles.
That being said, I could have SWORN I saw Michael Caine in a group shot in The Invention of Lying.
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Post by FinalGwen on Jan 3, 2011 12:47:26 GMT -5
There's a brilliant example in the series Spaced. In the first episode of Series 2, they hired John Simm to play a silent part in the flashbacks of a main character. He never speaks a word, just listens to what she's saying.
They said in the commentary that they loved the idea of hiring this brilliant actor and not giving him any lines.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jan 7, 2011 2:08:50 GMT -5
I'd say Tom had a pretty big role in TT. Im thinking more along the lines of Tom Jane in Spider Man 2 (where you can barely see him in the background). What scene is he in? I'd like to check my DVD copy to see. Jane? When MJ is running through the park at the end in her wedding dress. As she runs in front of the fountain, she runs past a guy who turns around to look at her for a sec.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jan 7, 2011 2:10:06 GMT -5
While they were billed and credited, the Three Stooges only appeared for a few seconds and had no lines in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 7, 2011 2:22:17 GMT -5
Michael Myers in Inglorious Basterds. Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder I'd say Tom had a pretty big role in TT. Im thinking more along the lines of Tom Jane in Spider Man 2 (where you can barely see him in the background). I never heard of it... and upon searching I found this on IMDB: Toward the end of the movie, it was rumored that "The Punisher" was noticeable, as that movie was based on a spin-off character from Spider-Man's comic book. This turned out to be false and is only someone who resembled Thomas Jane. This is purely coincidental. He was never intended by the makers to be the Punisher. -- IMDb Trivia: Spider-Man 2 (2004) so that is an urban legend.
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Post by Young Game on Jan 7, 2011 11:35:02 GMT -5
Here's one for Peter Jackson fans:
During the crowd shot in "Meet The Feebles", if you look close enough, you can see one of the aliens from "Bad Taste" in the audience.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2011 13:17:56 GMT -5
Okay - here's a legit example.
In the movie Brothers Bloom, Joseph Gordon Levitt has an extra part as a bar patron. No lines or anything, the camera just catches him for a few seconds along with other bar patrons.
The same director of Brothers Bloom did Brick just before so I think he just threw him in the scene for fun.
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