Guy stands in background of shot, does absolutely fine job as an extra, internet decides to start a conspiracy that he's Elvis - "terrible extra who ruined his scene".
The Batman cop is NOT an extra. Extras don't have lines. The minute they give one a line, he's no longer background, but an actor paid according to SAG scale.
VinnyDaQ, you are 100% incorrect. This is what I do for a living, I know. Acting that is, not extra work. One could argue he was an extra if the lines were given to him on the set and he wasn't actually cast, but this is not the case. And also one would be wrong as as soon as he is give a line he becomes a "Day Player" or sometimes called "Under Five."
forbes mag either way he can’t be a bad extra if he’s given lines. If he’s directed to do those things and say those lines then it’s the fault of continuity not the actor
MinimiMax that logic makes no sence then what would he look like he could look like anybody he could be the woman in the scene then i do not see any elvis in that guy at all
@@lordaizen66 you're totally right... we need to scour every scene of every movie and find that bastard... or maybe he is Richard Karn! That sneaky son of a bitch
this happens more than one time in this movie. an extra also fell down without being hit right before batman blows the whole in the wall to free the police
Vlane Tepish I would also say the dark knight rises one is just common sense of the henchman, I mean, if I saw batman beating up the other henchmen around me, I'd play dead as well.
+Hershey11 No, they reshoot scenes all the time and they do record all of that information. If your hair is in a certain way, they take a picture of that so they have a record of it.
He COULD absolutely do something about his hair... that would already help a lot. And it is precisely _because_ she had no way of knowing whether or not she was still in the shot that she shouldn't have broken character until the scene was declared over.
Mel Ody He is handpicked as an extra *because of his appearance*. If he change that, he would lose his job. And, no. She is an extra, she is not meant to keep running and actually find medical help just because she is not supposed to break character. She is there to appear on the background for a moment, not to build the story.
The point in the video was that he was a bad extra because he doesn't blend into the background. The fact that he is now handpicked because of that, probably for comic relief, is a result of not being able to blend in. Of course, for the jobs he is _now_ handpicked for, he can't change his appearance, but that wasn't the point originally made in the video as I understood it. In order to better blend in as an extra, as was originally his job, there were things he could have done.
As a professional Background Actor, some of these do ring true. Regrading the broom sweeping incident (and, no, I wasn't there), all I can offer is this. During takes, absolute silence is often required, because sound equipment is incredibly sensitive. For instance, If someone's shoes are noisy, they get padded. Club scenes, crowded interior/exterior shots are all shot in absolute silence, with the volume being added-in in post-production. Yes, we'll do some takes with volume; but, when you see actors talking, everything else is silent. So, that BG (as we're called) was probably told to 'mime' his action (as we're often told to do), because the sound of the hard-bristles on the floor was, probably, too loud, but he took it too far.
I'm betting that (if that was the problem) they didn't think the broom was an issue until it was. I don't know how long it takes to mock up a broom that's not really noisy. I bet they just said pretend to sweep but he pretended a little too hard.
The Anonymous Sir Backspace I'm sure there's something they could've done; but, honestly, sometimes background just fuck around without realising they're on camera. Some just don't care.
Yes, as an ACTRA member (which is the Canadian actor's union), I enjoy excellent wages and benefits. Mind you, I'm not driving a Porsche; but I don't need to work 9 to 5, or everyday, to pay my bills. If you're not an ACTRA member, it's a much different story.
I have a suspicion that the guy "sweeping" in Quantum of Solace was told not to let the broom touch the ground because it made too much noise in a previous take.
the audio can be turned down to where the sweeping is not heard and there are other ways of not making noise...besides, those brooms are not loud, he just didn't know what he was doing
Um, you know there were actors in that scene, right? And they were delivering dialogue. Dialogue is also audio. If you turn down the audio, you turn down the dialogue.
dovregubben78 um, you know dialogue can be re-recorded (aka) looped/dubbed in right? and no, you don't turn down the dialogue..there's more than one mic...also, the mic would have been far enough away as to not pick up the broom...they don't use cheap equipment or techniques to where every sound can be heard or thing can be seen...it's also called editing..basically anything distracting can be edited out in a movie to where you'd never know it was there...try watching some documentaries and behind the scenes stuff sometime
The title is misleading, because several of these were not the extra's at all! They were faults the director/editor should have noticed, like the Batman Begin's one, the scene was put in the wrong place, that isn't the extra's fault. Or the Home Alone one. You can't blame him for what the internet did! Could have gone with some of the MANY Star Trek goof where extra's are seen several times over attempting to be close to the captain, (Both Kirk and Picard) the Extra's who frequently upstage the leads, and MANY MANY more! Seriously, if you want to see what extra's should not do, watch Star Trek. They get it bad a lot of times.
Darren Turner and apparently the bearded guy in home alone was just standing there and some people on the Internet said he was Elvis, that isn't the extras fault either
For that, didn't it come out it was Bail who messed up choreography and the guy actually fell down when he was suppose to because the other guy Bail was holding was meant to be thrown into him? And he jumps back at an angle to take the 'hit' but also so he's not toppled on by the other guy?
Exactly. Whoever wrote the script clearly didn’t recognise it not the actor- he read the lines. Yeah the other guy looking like Elvis how dare he distract people with his appearance 🙄🙄 I usually like What Culture but this is a really bad and not thought out video
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And btw, number two shouldn't be on this list for two reasons, 1: it's not his fault, he was given some lines of dialogue to say and he did what he was told, it's the directors fault. 2: technically he is not an extra. If you do not say anything throughout the scene and do not interact with the main actors, you are an extra. But the moment you have at least one word of dialogue you are an ACTOR, not an extra.
I think the guy who says "a what?" in JAWS was meant to be funny. I've always read that as an intentional joke. It also doesn't undermine the scene, there is another funny line that follows it too. When we come back to Richard Dreyfuss and the same guy says something like "what is this bite radius crap? Why don't you stick your freaking head in there and find out its a man eater." to witch Dreyfuss responds with a joke. The scene doesn't become serious until the mother of the boy shows up and slaps Brody. Also, if an extra is given a line they cease to be an extra and are a bit player or bit part. I guarantee that guy was given lines intentionally. Plus he's in other scenes too, when they are loading the boats and hunting for the shark.
Also, that "Ron Jeremy lookalike" looks to be Joe Spinell, and accomplished actor who was good friends with Spielberg. I could be wrong about that, but it looks like him.
A good chunk of these weren't even the fault of the extra: 10: So he vaguely resembles Elvis? I don't see it really so uuh blame the casting director? 9: Bad editing and bad directing (you could chalk it up to bad second unit work but Nolan doesn't seem to use second unit) 8: Actually legit bad work of background actors 7: Sounds like bad continuity errors editing between the footage of the stunt double 6: Arguable; seems like poor scene blocking 5: Partly his fault? Sounds like he works around quite a bit so people have begun spotting him 4: Possible, I've seen some propose me might have been directed to do so to avoid dust kicking up or to keep the sound of the broom being picked up on mic. 3: Legitly bad extra 2: Legitly bad extra 1: Legitly bad extra
1: Wasn't a bad extra. Batman threw a Batarang at the dude, it was just a bit hard to get, since the upper half of his body was cut away by the camera.
In the Batman Begins one, it's because they gave that extra a line, which meant that they had to pay him (and, of course, that the guy could get his SAG card). When they needed another extra to say a line, they didn't want to pay one more extra, so they just had the same guy do both and probably figured, "Who's going to notice someone with so little screen time that much?" Also, if you want to get technical, they could be twins who joined the police force together.
Yeah but they are not twins. Im a scotland yard super-recognizer. (Our fusiform gyri are apprently more developed) and let me tell you, its painfully obvious they arent twins. They should stop being so cheap. If they pay so much for funny looking costumes and random irrelevant explosions the least they could do is hire another "under 5" actor
If they get paid more and are listed in the credits are they technically still extras? And If you are the main singer in a musical number in a musical movie are you still an extra?
As far as I know, extras don't talk, so if you have at least one line of dialogue, you are called something else. I don't know if there's a specific term for that kind of actor. In French, it's called a "silhouette".
The air sweeper was the director's fault. Actual sweeping created too much dust which was unacceptable for the director. After being given the ridiculous instruction to not raise any dust, the man decided to comically not sweep anything.
The guy in the Bond film would have been told not to actually sweep because it would have made too much noise. If they need that sound effect they add it in post. The guy shouldn't have swept directly at camera, but again, he was probably told to do it.
That cop in Batman was NOT an extra. However, the goof about him being in both of those scenes is still interesting and is even mentioned in the "goofs" section of the movie on IMDb.
10 and 9 are nothing to do with extras no doing their job; 10 is a guy the internet got obsessed with; 9 is an actor (not an extra) and the sequence is ruined by sloppy continuity and and confused editing.
My favourite one was in the pilot for TWD: When Rick's horse is swarmed by walkers, waaaaay back in the crowd you can see one of the extra's in make up drinking a bottle of water. Look it up and once you see it, you can never un-see it.
VerilyVerbatim Yeh it's still amusing. But for every good video they upload, there's 3 dogshit ones released on the same day. 5-7 Top 10's a day is ridiculous. There's no thought put into them anymore. They're all about making as much money as quickly as possible before they lose all of their viewership in 2 years time.
There's also an extra in the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring who's one of the elves, when he aims his bow he gets all wide-eyed. And at the end of Return of the King during Aragorn's coronation an extra as a soldier can be seen hysterically laughing.
My brother was an extra in a film called the Emperor's Club. In an early scene, while Kevin Kline's character is talking to a student, you can see 2 students walking across the lawn (or path... I can't remember). One of the students (my brother) turns his head, looks at the camera, and starts walking like Shaggy in Scooby-Doo.
Still doesn't excuse the fact that that cop was clearly not an extra. He might have been cop 1 or cop 2 but he was an actual character who appeared multiple times in a shot by himself and spoke several lines. Not an extra. He would have been cast by a casting director for the role
The "mustachio" guy is actually Jason Lee, who played Earl in "my name is Earl", and this is exactly how Earl would act in such situation... I think it was deliberate.
Once again this vid shows that WhatCulture should just stick to vids about wrestling, when move step out of that area, they clearly have no clue, a few of these aren't the extras fault at all and they don't even know what the definition of an extra is, extras don't have lines, they're just people in the background of a movie or TV show.
During the opening battle in Gladiator, when the barbarian hordes charge the legions, you can see a grinning extra SQUARE in the middle of the frame right after the two armies meet.
Even identical twins, despite their name, dont look exactly alike. Im a scotland yard superrecognizer snd its painfully obvious they arent twins. Now before you say Im lying. Its all public record who the met police employs. (I work there as well)
Braveheart's full of great examples. My favourite being at the end of the first battle; Wallace reins in his horse having realising the battle is over, but unfortunately there's some extras in the background who simply wind down their choreographed fight moves and stand looking a bit awkward, as if realising at last the futility of war and the brotherhood of man. I hope they got fucking fired.
First scene does not fit the theme of this video: The extra did not "ruin" his scene simply by looking like Elvis. Second scene: I'm not convinced that they are the same person. Also, not in keeping with the theme of this video. How did he "ruin" his scene? Third scene: Bingo! It fits your theme! Fourth scene: Here we go again: Not any of the extras ruined anything. This is the fault of the production team, not the extra.
I have one from a tv show. American Horror Story Hotel when the immigrant workers were working on Sunday and there is a close up of one of them and he so clearly breaths that it took my eye away from the foreground.
There's this wonderful invention called Google, you can use it to find out what words mean before you throw them around like a kid who just learned about swear words.
Michael Langfitt clickbait: using a screenshot from home alone saying elvis is there and putting in a title of "terrible extras" and then proceeding to explain that this man in this home alone scene is "terrible" because he stands there and looks absolutely nothing like elvis. That checks off all of the parts of click bait..you might want to take your own advice, bud.
Michael Langfitt i did. his explanation was that "you can't look at this man without thinking that he's elvis now." Did you listen to it? also if you're under the age of 15, dont respond, because i know that you're just going to keep trying to argue and call me some really immature names and other stupid crap.
One of my all time favorites not mentioned is in Christmas with the Kranks, when the fire dept comes to rescue Luther, the black extra gets smashed in the face by another extra handling the ladder.
Not really an extra, but how about Emmit's youngest kid who kept pointing to his package at the end of Back to the Future 3. He had like 10 seconds of screen time and he made the most of it.
In the movie, "National Treasure 2", one extra runs across the screen as a garbage truck rampaged through the small streets of London. According to the director's commentary, he said he yelled at that extra for ruining the shot... and then when he looked back at the footage and saw how how good it looked, he went back to that extra and apologized.
I thought the "Jaws" reference was going to be during the false-alarm sequence in the 4th-of-July scene. As hundreds of terrified swimmers flee the ocean and storm the beach, an extra in a white shirt and tie, standing at the water's edge to help with crowd control, is clearly laughing.
I know it wasnt in a movie, but there is a scene in Community where the study group walks by a room from where a woman comes out cleaning her mouth and then a man comes out zipping his pants...
What about the guy in Training Day that started laughing when Denzel Washington got shot in the ass... Look for it. I actually start laughing whenever I watch that part now
North By Northwest - a character gets shot in a public place, which is supposed to be a shock to everyone else, but a little kid in the background of a scene knows what's about to happen and has his hands over his ears.
add this one. after one battle in "Braveheart" you can clearly see 2 extras pretending to sword fight, but with complete lack of enthusiasm. they appear to be just chatting, and begrudgingly fighting
no extra ruined their scenes. there's an editor, a director and a person with a notebook in charge of the continuation for that. but i liked the krillin thing "did he just get the black knocked out of him?"
haha like the last example, in Kill Bill during the blue sho down scene, some of the 88s are just waving their swords around instead of swinging at Kiddo.
I bet the exra with the broom was told to do this when they were filming another angle in order not to ruin he sound. And then nobody told him to broom properly again when they filmed this angle. No, I'm not that extra ^^
I can guarantee this is why he was doing it. In fact, it probably has nothing to do with the angle. He was probably just afraid of getting the broom too close to the ground and accidentally making any noise, so he erred on the side of ridiculously exaggerated sweep-miming. As an extra you have to make no noise whatsoever.
That’s not elvis parsnip because if I know elvis parsnip he’d be on an island getting his Johnston waxed not becoming an extra in a popular Christmas movie
