Most scary phrase

When the camera assistant is unloading a film magazine into a canister to send to the lab--

"Oops...." *This actually happened to me.
 
CallaghanFilms said:
No, the scariest would be "Mr. Ledger has arrived on set."
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You know, for an actor, the scariest line may be, "Mr. Gilliam has cast you as the lead in his new movie....."

Re: Heath Ledger and Jean Rochefort.... Rochefort didn't die, but Jeez Louise, a herniated disc and a shut down production. Yikes.
 
Scariest line, "I run this street! You gotta ask me before you can do this." Spoken by a thug on a bike to me and my crew while shooting "Wages of Sin". What offset any fear was the fact he was on a bike and alone. My fear was that he might come back with someone, but he himself would've gotten the crap kicked out of him. Our strategy was to ignore him. He got tired of mean mugging and left. His beef was we didn't really tell him all the info about the movie as he would've liked. The cops had already came around, asked questions and left. He wasn't a cop so we didn't owe him an explanation. Maybe he could've donated some of his drug money and became a producer.

-Nate
 
Heck, if your crew had one car between them, that makes you top dogs on *that* street...at least so far as anyone on a bike ought to be concerned.
 
It's like on "Amores Perros," The director, Art director, and (I think) the DP, got held up at gun point during location scouting.

The director ended up hiring those same thugs as "security" while shooting in that neighborhood, and even used them as extras during the dog fighting scene.

They never got their stuff back, though :(
 
Calomile said:
From my student days "Wait, was I supposed to be recording? I didn't think we'd started yet..."
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I used to co-host this Dirty-Jobs-esque show in college and my friend/co-host and I heard this after we had just done a Polar Plunge for the show :Drogar-Shock(DBG): needless to say we never used that person as our cam-op again
 
Waiting around near a cliff near Pacific Palisades, with a huge miniature bridge upon which runs a miniature train, all rigged with pyro and explosive bolts, counting down to sunset which is when we plan to blow everything for the benefit of several high-speed cameras positioned for coverage. Roughly $1 million invested in the setup.

fifteen minutes to go

suddenly - thud. THUD! THUD THUD ->BOOM<-! thud

- pitter patter of falling debris, followed by absolute sepulchral dead silence -

um...were we rolling on that...?
 
"Hello? .. yeah, no, now isn't a good time; I'm shooting a movie. .. Yeah no, it's pretty cool, I'm a special assistant;- cool huh? But yeah, we can hang out later. Any-way's, I've gotta go, I think the sound guy needs me to get him something ... we are in the middle of a take."

- Mikko
 
Well...a miniature, in that it was a scaled miniature version of the real bridge.

Huge, in that even being a scaled miniature, it was about 30' long...
 
In the treatment:

"Performance of ******* in the dark areas with the black backgrounds slowly brightens. He has absorbed all the knowledge, wisdom, talents and strength from the Harlem Renaissance’s Greats. These combined images will confront your sense of perception. It will be realistic and impossible at the same time. This time machine idea will be all the more striking due to the perfect line up of the two worlds. Only ******* will exist in both worlds. He is our narrator. He crosses the divide of time. This will be accomplished in editing."
 
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