So they are filming Men In Black 3 on Court St on Friday and Saturday nights. The location scout is going around and offering everyone $400 to leave their lights on and their iron gates up all night as they are filming from 8pm to 6am in the morning.
Now I have gates for a reason. I have a lot of valuable stuff in the store. Jewerly, clothing and accesories. That's why I have an alarm. An alarm that will go off if some one touches my window. That is why I have the metal gates on the store. Now they are lattice work gates so you can see in so the light will show through. When I talked to the guy he said they might pay me to have someone stay in the store overnight. I don't want to do that. If someone did it would be me. My wife won't go for it as we have never slept apart since we were married and I ain't going to start for some stupid movie. Plus they can digitalize out the gates if they want. Nelson at the bodega next store told them to screw off. I think I will do the same if I can't leave the gates down. I don't need the publicity. They can digitalize me out.
What would youse guys do?
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Shut the castle doors and pull down the drawbridge.
I don't get the idea they propose. Are they trying to make it look like evening hours when stores are still open? Days are longer right now but why don't they film at dusk?
Did you ever catch the losers who tagged your metal blinds?
They want it to look like early evening. The location scout told me they are going to ditalize the street to look like the 1940's. So why are they bothering to do this at all? It's silly.
They never caught the taggers even though I gave them a tape of them doing it.
NYPD at it's finest.
When every second counts they are only minutes away.
They are minutes away, but they are incompetent all the live long day.
Well, I would imagine, whatever they do digitally costs them.
So the closer the scene is to how they want it, the cheaper it is. It probably also makes it easier to get the more realistic effect, if you have stuff to match up with that actually is, you know, real.
I pay an off-duty cop to stand there and arrest any douchebag who touched my store.
I would make them an absurd offer - something like "I am the owner and I will stay here overnight awake for five thousand dollars" take it or leave it. And bring your shotgun. You never know.
OR you could keep the five grand if they take you up on it and hire a rent a cop to sit there and guard the place.
"It ain't worth $400"
I agree. But having fun is priceless!
Here's what I would do. First, invite Palladian. He has a "NY way" with important actors. If he can act surly with Madonna, Will Smith is nothing.
The second thing you do is call this a PARTY! Where's your adventurous spirit? Dress like a couple of NY street thugs from the 40's, and you two might just become extras in the film. That ought to pay you for the nice wine and cheese you two go through waiting for your big moment.
Oh, and that gate that locks in all your valuables? Think of it this way instead. It's only that thing between you and the bad guys, and at least for this one night...the bad guys are you and Palladian and those men in black.
Nearly forgot! One last piece of advice.
The guy never got back to me yesterday so we will see what happens today.
I can't hire somebody because what I would pay then would cancel out what the movie company will pay me.
These guys have a big sense of entitlement. My default position is to not cooperate unless it is really worth my while.
The guy in the bodega next door is not doing it and we are at the end of the shooting area so they will use my storefront anyway....so why should I bother?
Have a camp-out with L. It'll be romantic.
Blake's right. Stay up all night, have a party, you could even get some early morning business after the bars close.
Do the bars close in NY?
Maybe Tommy Lee Jones will stop by and chat. He was really good in Coal Miners Daughter.
Actually, I've got nothing to do these days. I'll be glad to show up with my intruder neutralization systems and watch your place for you. All I need is a lawn chair and some pizza money. Flights look to be around $400 and up. I won't need a hotel, since I'll be staying in the lawn chair.
Thanks but you are laid up dude. You need to take care of yourself and sitting in a ladies clothing store to accomidate a bunch of douchenozzles is not what you want to do.
If you ever make it to Brooklyn we are going on a pizza/bar/wine crawl and not being cooped up in the store.
This is Memorial Day weekend and believe it or not I am very busy as my girls get the idea that they need clothes for the warm weather.
So I don't want to throw off my normal routine.
They were filming an HBO series last week and some of the actresses came in and were pretty snotty. I told them to get the fuck out if they knew what was good for them.
Their sense of entitlement was unbelievable.
So far the guy had us sign a release and gave us the $400 but our gates stay down.
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