Evan Almighty
David Milligan
was a newscaster, and his co-anchor was Catherine Bell. I watched the
opening credits and didn't see her name, so I guess she was doing an
uncredited cameo.
I know I've seen every GG episode at least a half dozen times or
more, so it seemed very odd watching Lauren in unfamiliar scenes saying
unfamiliar lines.
The only time she almost seemed like Lorelai was when she was trying
to get Evan to clean up his act. Reminded me of Lorelai trying to talk Luke
into eloping.
Wasn't a bad movie, not as many laughs as I expected.
At the end were outtakes of the cast and crew dancing and acting
goofy - all except Lauren. I guess she had too much dignity for such
nonsense.
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David E. Milligan
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Rob Jensen
<david...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> At the end were outtakes of the cast and crew dancing and acting
>goofy - all except Lauren. I guess she had too much dignity for such
>nonsense.
There's a simple reason that she wasn't in the majority of the
bloopers: they were filmed mostly on Ark/Flood days, so she wasn't
there to begin with.
Lauren was working on both Gg and the movie at the same time -- flying
back and forth between sets on the West Coast (Gg) and East Coast
(Evan), so I very seriously doubt that she was available. When I saw
the movie (in the theaters, unfortunately), I knew about the filming
Gg and Evan at the same time. You go in knowning that and it's very
*obvious* what scenes that she was *in* were filmed around her. Which
is a LOT of the Ark-Flood sequences. If you really *want* to look
closely, she's never with more than two or three other people (at
most) and essentially in *none* of the master shots or other
long-shots on the Ark during the flood. It means that she wasn't
there during the main shoot for the sequence and they filmed her with
a few other actors on pick-up days.
-- Rob
David Milligan
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So, she was relegated to the Second Unit?
Rob Jensen
<david...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Relegated isn't the word for it, IMO. Leads do Second Unit all the
time -- inserts like this aren't the only type of scene that are/can
be filmed by the Second Unit. Conversely, scenes that clearly quaify
as First Unit are/can be filmed by the Second Unit director (who is
often but not always a producer on the film/show or even a
cinematographer).
Conversely, the movie's director might film a Second Unit scene,
whether because it's filming at the same time as a First Unit scene
(typical for this scenario: the First Unit is filming a major action
sequence -- often, the stunt director/choreographer is the Director of
these scenes) or because it's all they can film at the time. First
Unit does not mean "the Unit that the film's primary Director is
working on." It's guess that's accurate probably 80% of the time, but
correlation is not causation.
All of that is about the term "relegated," which IMO inherently
indicates diminished importance. The only thing that Second Unit
really means is that, for whatever the reason, the First Unit is not
filming it.
-- Rob