02-21-2008, 11:20 PM
COSTUMES
Remember the category is "Costumes" and not "historic clothes".
HIRE REENACTORS
Why doesn't Hollywood hire reenactors? They do, sometimes:
- Gettysburg
- Last of the Mohicans
- Glory
I remember a movie about the ECW, with Richard Harris.. I remember reading that just about all of the extras in the battle scenes were reenactors, just like in Gettysburg
Or the movie Heaven and Earth (Japanese Epic) using lots and lots of actual historic kit.
Army of Darkness hired loads of reenactors! Lots of folk from various Southern California Ren Faire groups and dare I say it? .. [size=75:8mmm524g]several SCA fighters[/size]....
One of the stories about Gladiator was that Ridley Scott looked into using re-enactors, but.... reenactors usually can't get a 2, 3 or 4 or more weeks off of work to do a film. Did you know that he actully spent more money on soldier kit by renting and making the wrong gear than it would have cost him to buy it from Deepeeka? But, it was faster.
At least he got something right, the look of soldiers in the field near the end of several days/weeks of combat... dirty, rusty, bandaged....
When I was making Kit commercially I had the chance to bid a few TV shows and films.. providing clothes, armor, weapons etc... "Can you get me 80 segmentatas in 8 weeks?".. not an untypical question.
BRACERS
ACK!
When we did our first History Channel show the "costumer" wanted us to wear bracers. Had a whole box full of them! The reason given was that the untanned area of the wrist, the watch shadow is too difficult to cover with makeup as wrists tend to rub up against things... Hollywood's solution is the bracer. Pure Hollywood! DOUBLE ACK!
BTW if you want to see a very good movie in that the armor, clothes et al are exceptionally good when compared to Hollywood you need to see the Polish remake of Quo Vadis?.
http://www.polishfilmla.org/wocms.php?siteID=12&ID=142
We saw it at The Polish Film Festival in L.A. 2001, but understand that HBO refused to release it for distribution.
http://www.polishfilmla.org/wocms.php?siteID=33&lngID=1
Remember the category is "Costumes" and not "historic clothes".
HIRE REENACTORS
Why doesn't Hollywood hire reenactors? They do, sometimes:
- Gettysburg
- Last of the Mohicans
- Glory
I remember a movie about the ECW, with Richard Harris.. I remember reading that just about all of the extras in the battle scenes were reenactors, just like in Gettysburg
Or the movie Heaven and Earth (Japanese Epic) using lots and lots of actual historic kit.
Army of Darkness hired loads of reenactors! Lots of folk from various Southern California Ren Faire groups and dare I say it? .. [size=75:8mmm524g]several SCA fighters[/size]....
One of the stories about Gladiator was that Ridley Scott looked into using re-enactors, but.... reenactors usually can't get a 2, 3 or 4 or more weeks off of work to do a film. Did you know that he actully spent more money on soldier kit by renting and making the wrong gear than it would have cost him to buy it from Deepeeka? But, it was faster.
At least he got something right, the look of soldiers in the field near the end of several days/weeks of combat... dirty, rusty, bandaged....
When I was making Kit commercially I had the chance to bid a few TV shows and films.. providing clothes, armor, weapons etc... "Can you get me 80 segmentatas in 8 weeks?".. not an untypical question.
BRACERS
ACK!
When we did our first History Channel show the "costumer" wanted us to wear bracers. Had a whole box full of them! The reason given was that the untanned area of the wrist, the watch shadow is too difficult to cover with makeup as wrists tend to rub up against things... Hollywood's solution is the bracer. Pure Hollywood! DOUBLE ACK!
BTW if you want to see a very good movie in that the armor, clothes et al are exceptionally good when compared to Hollywood you need to see the Polish remake of Quo Vadis?.
http://www.polishfilmla.org/wocms.php?siteID=12&ID=142
We saw it at The Polish Film Festival in L.A. 2001, but understand that HBO refused to release it for distribution.
http://www.polishfilmla.org/wocms.php?siteID=33&lngID=1
Hibernicus
LEGIO IX HISPANA, USA
You cannot dig ditches in a toga!
[url:194jujcw]http://www.legio-ix-hispana.org[/url]
A nationwide club with chapters across N America
LEGIO IX HISPANA, USA
You cannot dig ditches in a toga!
[url:194jujcw]http://www.legio-ix-hispana.org[/url]
A nationwide club with chapters across N America
