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Yeah, Malkovich mentioned it in his AMA
Correct, I just thought some might enjoy seeing the actual BTS footage. What makes this all slightly more strange is that the director's commentary for the scene definitely perpetuates the myth. I wonder if Spike just thought the story was funny?
"It all stems from a YouTube video (linked below) purported to be from the DVD commentary for Being John Malkovich. Thing is, there is no commentary for Being John Malkovich. The comments on the YouTube video are screened for anybody pointing out the truth."
Very interesting, thanks!
Knowing Jonze, he definitely thought the story was funny
I find it hilarious that this video's been out for 7 years and people are just now noticing there's no DVD commentary.
I find it hilarious that while searching for "Malkovich think fast", I came upon this reddit thread from 7 years ago.
same
Aah okay, so it wasn't improvised in the sense that some random drove past and they rolled with it. But they decided to add it in as a joke and it hit on the first try.
If it randomly happened one take and they liked it, they'd have to try more takes to make sure they had a good shot of it.
I never understood how people thought this was improvised, and it was an extra doing it? This would land the production in so much hot water, not to mention the extra...
Well, back in Star Trek IV, the woman who says that she thought the nuclear "wessels" were in Alameda was supposed to be just an extra. They just thought the line was so hysterical that they filled out the paperwork for her. The same sort of approach would have worked here if the dude had been an extra.
She wasn't initially an extra. She was just someone who walked by. After the take, someone had to run after her to get her to sign a release or whatever the paperwork is called. It's not that the line was so hysterical, but more that it was so completely natural, believable... She didn't realize who she was talking to, and was just trying to be helpful.
Source: I read Leonard Nimoy's autobiography, "I Am Spock", multiple times. He's a really funny guy.
A subreddit for these could be fun.
Whenever this movie comes up, which isn't often, my user name gets to really shine!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgHxFNFWlZc
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Can you explain it? I'm obviously missing something.
Chekov is Russian
The same way people think that the hosptial explosion scene in The Dark Knight, when Heath Ledger stops, turns around, and shrugs was improvised; it sounds cool.
What Heath Ledger did during the delay was improvised. But it isn't a big deal, 90% of all acting is "improvised" in the same way.
No, the explosion was completely improvised. Originally Heath Ledger was just going to walk away from the building, and the shot was to show no-one was following him, but then a gas canister somewhere in the basement blew up and it triggered a huge explosion at just the right time to create one of the most badass scenes in the Dark Knight. It's a miracle no-one got hurt.
e: Heath, not Keith. I'd put a witty remark here, but that was genuinely just pure stupidity.
Took me way too long to realize this was sarcasm.
Haha :)
That explosion's name? Albert Einstein.
Th is is a load of bullshit. The explosion was planned. I've literally never heard anyone say that the explosion was spontaneous and they just happened to capture a well established explosion shot. Its clearly planned because the only thing that was improvised was when the Joker fiddles with detonator for the bomb and nothing happens at first.
Basically what happens is the explosion was supposed to be instantaneous, but it doesn't go off at the designated time. Ledger instead of ending the scene fiddles with the detonator and then the explosion happens and its a shock. No one was in danger. Even then I'm not sure if it was improvised or not.
http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/12695/dark-knight-was-gotham-hospital-scene-a-goof-up
Your reflexes are too fast.
What's it like to have no bullshit filter?
All aboard the fail train!
Wow...
Whoosh
Keith?
Keith is Heath's twin and stunt double. He keeps him locked up at home so everyone thinks he's just one actor.
Come to think of it, I hope someone checked on Keith after Heath's untimely death
I have no idea...
God help me, this makes me wish there was some film that was being shot with NYC in the background during 9/11.
There is actually a documentary that was supposed to be about the NYC firefighters, but then 9/11 happened and it turned into a documentary about that since they where recording when it happened. I don't remember the name but it was a French-American produced documentary.
Your whole post was pure stupidity
I thought it was improvised in that it was some random dude from irl who threw it. I'm never trusting people again.
So is nobody going to say a goddamn thing about the dude stoned out of his mind carting around a huge-ass jar of olives?
He made me completely forget who or where i am for a moment.
Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich ?
Him talking about his tape reminded me of airheads
I figured this couldn't be real. I cant imagine the shitstorm that would befall an extra who got drunk on set and pitched something at a featured actor... The 'commentary' said the extra got his SAG card and had his rate upped to $700.
That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
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Also if an extra gets any direction from the director, under a sag contract they immediately get bumped up and get the pay for the day as much as the least paid actor in the production.
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The 3rd AD usually wrangles extras, directs them where and when to walk, etc.
Exactly. Usually in set a directors job is to sit and watch. The 1st AD does the shot set ups and direction.
really? what qualifies as "any direction from the director"? This happened to me a few years ago and i didn't get a pay bump or a SAG contract. I thought it was only if you were asked to give speak lines
If it is a union shoot than you are supposed to. Really it requires you to be kind of an asshole and demand it. You have to be a SAG extra.
This is how it works if you are given a line, not if you drunkenly shout while assaulting an actor. I've been a features extra on a big production before and you definitely get a pay bump but let's not encourage cattle call extras to do stupid shit like this thinking a director will love the shot and pay them extra. That just doesn't happen.
If he's under contract and they want to use the footage that would be how they do it. I'm guessing he wasn't actually drunk though, that would be a no no.
Then the entire cast gave a standing ovation for said extra, the applause almost deafening, as the director then proclaims that everyone gets the rest of the day off!
r/thathappened
For such a tiny, and reasonably simple scene in the movie, its amazing how much effort goes into shooting it, as well as the amount of people behind the camera to help bring the whole scene together. Really makes you appreciate the amount of work that goes on behind the scenes.
I think there's a video diary thing they did for The Hobbit that showed the shocking amount of people involved in filming overhead shots of the cast walking through the grand sweeping vistas. It takes a set up of...something measured in football fields anyway. Since once you start getting the obvious people involved (satisfyreality lists a bunch below), you've then got to have people on set coordinating all these people and feeding them and it just starts ballooning up. It starts to make sense just how much a movie costs when you think about it like that.
I've just started working with bigger crews and it's pretty cool having that many people working toward a common goal. It's also intimidating and I still prefer smaller crews.
Key people behind a camera:
Director
1st assistant director
Director of photography
Camera operator
1st camera assistant
2nd camera assistant
Script supervisor
Gaffer
Boom operator
Sound mixer
There are a lot more people on a crew but on something like this they wouldn't need to be that close to the camera.
you forgot snacks. i mean, quiet snacks.
+ Chip Grip
Thank you for saying that. We work really hard to create moments like that. It's really special to be on set when stuff like this happens.
The script, written years before the movie was filmed, had the can throw and line in it.
I suppose santa isn't real either?
what was up with 'the jeter'?
The thing is, if it's not in the script and while shooting someone says "wouldn't it be a good idea if..." and they set it up and shoot it, that is a sort of improvisation. It's not the same sort as Who's Line is it Anyway or Charlie Parker, but it still is improvising.
It's a common misconception that actors regularly ad-lib entirely new lines on the spot in front of camera from the top of their head, when most usually what seems to happen is that the script collaboratively evolves during rehearsals and read-throughs, and gets added to for eventual filming.
I think it's part of the process of suspension of disbelief - we want to believe the actor IS the character, rather than a person doing several word-for-word takes of a script they've already rehearsed over and over, and making it look like the words are actually occurring to them for the first time.
This gag is in the original script though. I not sure why this rumour is still circulating.
I don't get the scene anyway. How could some random guy driving down the street recognize a guy in a baseball cap from behind was John Malkovich, the actor, anyway in time to decide to chuck a beer can at his head?
In other news, remember when Cameron Diaz was smoking hot?
IMO, she was at her best looking in The Mask.
That song / dance scene at the Coco Bongo club was pretty sexy.
4 year old me was impressed, as is 21 year old me.
In other news, remember when Cameron Diaz was in her early 20s?
Ie she's still smoking hot, just not 20.
Keep watching there is some pretty good food fights at 9ish minutes
@13:23, Cheeseburger Randy?
Later on in the clip Spike dresses up in drag to fill in for a stuntwoman who gets injured. Far more interesting than the beer can toss.
Randy from TPB is there at 13:20ish
Ah, that was was one of my favourite true hollywood stories, I guess it makes sense as the beer can hit happens at the perfect time in the movie where Malkovich is at the absolute end of his rope. Still a great scene, I remember rewinding it when I first saw it. :D
It's interesting how this urban myth has changed repeatedly. Originally it was claimed that the guy in the truck was just some random dude who drove by the set and nailed Malkovich with the beer. Then it was a "drunken extra." And now we get the BTS footage.
Smells like deliberate bit of misinformation that Spike Jonze set up for his own amusement.
You mean someone went on the internet and lied?
Back when BJM was released and the internet wasn't as prevalent, the original urban legend that became so prevalent was that the entire scene was impromptu because a passing driver threw a beer can at Malkovich while screaming.
Yeah. No shit.
RUINER!!!
Thanks for doing ya thaaang, forceduse!
The line was improvised and Malcovich's scream in that particular take was why it made it in. The can throw was in the script.
No.
Yes.
ITT: Circlejerk over quite possibly the worst movie ever made