Say what you want, but it's a well-known fact that movie sets are rather known for moments of hilarity and absurdity behind the heavy curtain (especially in Hollywood), and in the age of social media, these moments are swiftly transformed into some rather good content as well. And of course, as with any content... memes are bound to be created. These memes often capture the funny side of actors and staff working on a set which a lot of fans find amusing as they get to see the personalities behind the characters they like.
Oh, and one such treasure trove just for memes based on this topic is the Facebook group "Movie Set Memes." With thousands of members from all corners of the globe, this group has established itself as the go-to destination for the best set memes around when it comes to movies and TV shows.
For more interesting facts regarding the industry, don't forget to scroll down and check out our interview with Robertas Nevecka, who is a Lithuanian director, animator, and illustrator.
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Hawking had an absolutely savage sense of humor XD Look up his interview with John Oliver as well, he had a zinger for that
That one is my favorite! You can clearly see him smiling after savagely answering his questions.
Load More Replies...My best friend's son spent a semester at Cambridge. He called home to tell her about his new friend Steve in a wheelchair who told the best jokes. He had no idea who Steve was.
I wish I didn’t know that he had an affair and left his wife for his nurse, I had so much respect for him - concerning his genius I still do.
At least there is a choice for a man... Always Natasha for a woman 😂
or natalia. sometimes black widow is a natasha, sometimes she's a natalia
Load More Replies...Jaws 4 is the only one of the franchise that I enjoyed. It falls squarely into the "so bad it's good" category.
Aw, the original Jaws is a solid four stars for me. Fantastic performances and direction.
Load More Replies...I saw Jaws. It was "okay". I blame the viewing public that he ever made it to a fourth movie. Jaws 4 box office was roughly 28 million over its cost. Minus however much goes to the movie theaters, the advertising budget, whoever else had an interest in the film and so on. But I guess "bought my mom a house" is better than talking about how the first movie had 9X more profit.
Well, why should Michael Caine care how much money the film made in total or how it compared to the others?
Load More Replies...As we mentioned previously, Bored Panda reached out to Robertas Nevecka, a multifaceted Lithuanian artist, animator, and illustrator who is also known for working as an Assistant Director on various movie sets.
One of the first questions posed to Robertas was about his experiences as an Assistant Director. He replied, "Once, we had to film a real house burning down, involving a few actors, around 100 extras, firemen, a 16mm film camera, and one cow. We rehearsed extensively because everything had to work in sync, but things went wrong once the fire was lit. We were too close to withstand the inferno's heat. We had to back down, regroup, and wait until the fire subsided. However, we still managed to capture three difficult shots amidst the blazing barn flames. Working as an assistant director is like being in a constant workshop for film directing. You get up close to all the creative people on set, observe their tools and tricks in action, and analyze what worked and what didn't when you see the final movie."
I mean, you've got Netflix and chill, I guess HBO Max and climax(?), maybe it's a good thing that they didn't drop it, otherwise it would have been repetitive.
I don't understand why one of the oldest and most recognizable names in movie distribution would randomly decide to rebrand to a such a boring, generic name.
"J.B. Perrette explained that the HBO branding had been dropped from the service's name so that it could be associated with its original programming as a content brand on Max, rather than having to be associated with the entirety of its library (which includes children's and family programming that was at odds with HBO having traditionally been associated with premium and adult-oriented programming)." It's not an entire rebranding of HBO, it's an emerging of a new umbrella streaming service, I guess?
Load More Replies...I always wonder how much money brands spend on rebranding—a thing that NOBODY cares about. HBOMax is Max now?! I didn’t watch that much HBO, but I’ll sure binge Max for hours a day now! Thank god they spent millions on focus groups, software engineers, and on replacing every sign and bit of stationary in their offices! Wow! Max!
A boy (Andrew Peacock) at school with me was a bit slow on the uptake, it took him nearly all of his first year to realise why we all called him "Drew"
I HATE the new HBO app. It sucks abs doesn't keep track of where I'm at in 1/2 my shows, so EVERY TIME I want to watch that show, I have to go find my spot
Sorry, can't come to school today, I was just cast in a teen drama. What do you mean I need acting expirience, everyone knows actors are randomly selected. Besides, I was in a couple plays in elementary school, I'm sure that counts.
Pretty much anybody subjected to a teen drama already understands.
Load More Replies...When asked how he incorporates his artistic style into his films and graphical narratives, he confessed that he had been avoiding doing so because of his dislike for his own style. He stated, "I hired much better artists than myself to run away from my awful drawings. However, things have slightly changed now, and I have learned to accept and embrace my personal style. In fact, I'm currently working on my next animated film, titled 'Fishing Docks,' in my own unique style. Perhaps, only after completing this film, will I be able to fully answer this question. It's possible that I may fail miserably and resort to hiring more skilled artists once again."
People notice. For example Michael Cain is the only one who can be mean and cute at the same time.
Load More Replies...HAD a stroke. In utero (before he was born) which is why his face is so notably asymmetric when he smiles. It's called hemiparesis. If you look for it you'll start seeing it all over as it's actually not terribly rare.
Load More Replies...Has he had a stroke? Not trying to be rude, just curious.
challenge accepted !!!! :D EDIT : no no no no no no no, sorryyy !!!! I got the wrong line, I wanted to answer to another comment ! *facepalm* :D
Load More Replies...challenge accepted !!!! (on the correct line this time :D )
Load More Replies...Film school graduate, I can confirm that endless hours of discussion are spent on the significance of a shot without any consideration that perhaps, just perhaps, it's of no significance.
My buddy is an art critic and we have this discussion all the time. How does he know that the artist is trying to convey the depth of sadness inside, they might have had alot of blue left over.
There's a film called If.... with Malcolm McDowell and halfway through it changes from colour to black and white. For years film critics have been pondering on its significance and saying how the director was "definitely conveying" this that and the other but in reality they ran out of colour film and couldn't afford more :-D
Oh look it's discourse about the curtains being blue, only in film version
He also shared insights into how his experience as a director and animator has influenced his illustrating work. He said, "When you aspire to be a film director, you begin hunting for stories. Every day, you make an effort to observe and document events that occur to you or your friends. Frequently, while reading a news article, you contemplate whether it could be transformed into a screenplay. The Notes app on my phone is brimming with dialogues overheard from random people on the street. This profoundly influences my illustrations, as I prioritize the narratives conveyed by the drawings rather than focusing solely on style or technique."
He didn't "purchase the horse from its owner," he bought it at the auction after filming wrapped. Because horses can't just go into storage, studios unload them when they're done.
unless it is a contracted animal. You could have a contract to supply X amount of this animal for movie Y.
Load More Replies...Maybe it looked too much like CU in the NT?
Load More Replies...Billy Crystal bought his horse from City Slickers and then cast the horse in the sequel and rode him in that movie too
He's clearly a good rider. There are too many actors who play these kinds of role but sit on a horse like a sack of offal.
I've heard sack of potatoes, but sack of guts is a a whole 'nother mental image!
Load More Replies...I'd laugh at people who reply to accounts as if the company head is running the account, but I do it too.
You mean it's not talking logos in suits? Blockbuster wears a blue one with a yellow handkerchief, no?
Load More Replies...When asked by us, Robertas also elaborated on a project where he combined his skills as a director, animator, and illustrator - his debut short film, 'Snow Shelter'. He stated, "The film utilized the rotoscoped animation technique, which involved filming real actors and subsequently transforming them into animated characters by drawing over their footage. Throughout the production, I fulfilled multiple roles: serving as a film director during the live-action shooting, collaborating as an animator with the animation crew, and working as an illustrator with the background artist to develop the film's visual style."
A famous book by Aldous Huxley called 'Brave New World' has 'Feelies' as a progression of entertainment.
Think about photographs and single frames taken from movies too, they're called stills. :)
Saying "Look at this still from a movie" sounds utterly ridiculous to me now!
Load More Replies...In a literal sense, no, but contextually a film is generally considered to be high-brow like "The Color Purple", and a movie is a popcorn chomper "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns". But it's just semantics.
Load More Replies...I will continue to share my account with my niece for as long as I can get away with it! She is in college in the UK and Netflix helps when she gets homesick.
They don't even have anything good to watch anymore. After Witcher, I'm canceling it
Even if you personally don't like their recent work, they still deserve to live! Because that's what it comes down to.
Load More Replies...Crafty is slang for craft services. Basically, they provide snacks for the cast and crew.
Load More Replies...Training ourselves to think in polarized ways so we can ignore the grays. Both images equally apply to both locations in certain circumstances and there’s multitudes of variations in-between. Mexico City is the largest in North America and some of it are of the most advanced and parts are some of the most outdated.
It was an experiment. Just as smoking a bee hive calms the bees Canada was trying to calm the downstairs meth lab.
Load More Replies...ALL r a bit excessive. The last US one was just a one-off day. It's not like that all time or even 1/2 the time
That picture is so f*****g misleading. It’s a picture of New York when smoke from Canadian wildfires blew south. That is not what it looks like normally.
Y’all are dumb, apples to oranges, smoke from a wildfire over a bridge and a pretty skyscraper, right out of shot we both have rampant homelessness and dead bodies from idiots with guns. It’s not a competition
Remember the Inigo Montoya rule: greeting, name, common association, expectations.
This is an excellent rule. I must remember it. Hello, I am Grant Melville, we're both Bored Pandas, and I expect that you didn't kill my father and aren't prepared to die.
Load More Replies...I always think a women responding like that thinks WAYYYY too highly of herself to just assume any guy contacting her must be "into" her.
Everyone wants their five seconds of fame, I’d love to see the actual fights and b******t once the camera stops rolling. Unrealistic as hell
Part of Hollywood’s immensely skewed priorities. Robert Downey Jr. gets $10-15M for doing very little in a Spider-Man movie, but they pay most production assistants poverty wages and work them to death. Clearly, a PA isn’t who’s going to make people spend money on your movie, but there’s no reason for someone who’s making thousands of dollars per minute to have their latte brought to them by someone can’t make rent without three roommates.
Worked as a PA. The stories...had a director smash a laptop because the battery died. Threw me $1000 in cash to find one that worked.
The appropriate for a condensed “readers digest” version of aspects of Reddit, primarily, then some of all other socials. They’re also a Lithuanian website ran by Lithuanians who adhere to cultural, social and legal norms of their country, specifically when it comes to idiomatic translations and censoring. Still, for English being a second language & a lot of social content being idiomatic, colloquially, vernacular, they do a damn good job. Even if their censor software doesn’t.
Load More Replies...Absolutely love the censorship of the word between "trained" and "professional".
All movie plots and most of the dialogue will be AI generated within the next few years. So will the designs of sets/creatures etc.
Tbh, I doubt that. AI without large language models isn't capable of writing the same way as humans. It barely reworks and edits well.
Load More Replies...It's funny because the shark is mechanical.
Load More Replies...I have both of the original on dvd and I love watching them, the new cartoon ones are c**p though
Load More Replies...Islander: you work 8 full hours in one day? Wait…you do that 5 days a week? No pau hana on dem fridays?
Moms- trying to raise decent humans 24/7 365 no breaks zero pay little to no respect.
Can understand, that's similar to my work van in the morning and when I get home
Last week? Ha! I got my van in 2001 and it's looked like that since! XD ...wait, why am I proud of that
Load More Replies..."It wasn't our c**p production approach that made us fail, it got ruined by the patriarchy /bigots /nazis" - Hollywood studios after every failure
At work, it is very impressive. At home, it looks like al someone pranked me by smearing peanut butter on my cables and letting a bear in the house....
"Well, do you remember having fun at parties with cans of silly string?"
As someone who shoots in RAW, this hits right in the feels. Wife paid for a family photoshoot... they supplied the 'high quality' files (over saturated) in 10mb Jpeg!
"look-up tables: If you are into video editing, you may have heard of LUTs, or look-up tables, as a way to enhance the color and contrast of your footage. LUTs are preset files that apply a specific color grading to your video clips, giving them a certain mood, style, or aesthetic."
Load More Replies...ha ha. I .. did not see this movie - but at least I know one of the jokes now... (I always knew Shaggy wasn't that spaced out without some herbal help).
Oh, you should watch it sometime. It's a lot of fun, and Matthew Lillard absolutely nails it as Shaggy. The second one was "meh," but the first one is worth seeing.
Load More Replies...OMG IS THAT MALE GENITALIA???? BP HOW COULD YOU??? OH MY GOODNESS MY EYES
No it messes up the sound recording. We literally have to wait for it to be quiet again (and hope no flock of geese will fly by next)
Load More Replies...I have the same issue with them using an animal species but native to the area they are supposed to be, or when I play a video game that is supposed to be "realistic", but they have species together that don't naturally live together, or lived thousands or millions of years apart, without any sort of explanation as to why/how.
They used elk sounds for the caribou in The Polar Express. :(
Load More Replies...If a plane in older movies dives downwards we can hear the sound of "Jericho trumpets" most times since it was a popular sound effect back then, despite the fact that those were only installed on early Ju-87 dive bomber models.
I get this with flowers. High-centred hybrid teas in costume dramas...
Do you think Hasselhoff got to keep it afterwards? XD
Load More Replies...It means extra. It’s short for supporting ARTIST, not supporting ACTOR. BTW, a supporting actor isn’t referred to as such on set. They’re part of the cast or considered main or billed cast.
I recognize them but I’m spacing on their names. Could someone please remind me?
Load More Replies...Was working on a show that went on hiatus, for two weeks, after the Director was "asked" to go on an Anger Management Course after he threw things around the Set, and tried to fire the Producers. Fun times.
I feel this way about the stories and poems I wrote as a teenager XD
Wait! .... I'm going to TRY it - it's so CRAZY it just might WORK!! ... (a few seconds later) - it WORKS!! THANKS!!
U hit pause... its paused so it wont play till u hit play... i think its a joke :3
Load More Replies...The director of "Birdemic" did this too, except he didn't bother with the editing part (or any other basic film making techniques for that matter)
Hangin out, hangin out, hangin out with the familyyyyyy
Load More Replies...Three days of Company Moves in Upstate New York. The map that Locations handed out looked like it should have been hanging in an FBI office as they tracked down a Serial Killer. Different coloured lines crossing back, and forth over multiple Counties.
... I was an extra in a movie, on screen for about 3 seconds. One night, watching TV with my kids, we scrolled past that movie. "Stop!" I cried. "That's MOMMY!" - and - a Miracle! - they stopped scrolling at EXACTLY the right moment to see Mommy walk across the background of the scene. EPIC!!
I feel bad for movie producers... they spend years on a single film for peeps to watch it in less tham 2 hours and talk trash about it... can we start a trend where we say whats good about movies... the cgi was great peeps, the lighting was awesome, the soundtrack is out of this world :3
It was still a better love story than Twilight - no, wait!
Load More Replies...Ok, so this is basically my workshop. (Projects only get finished when I run out of shelf and bench and wall and floor...)
*steals sharpie from HelluvaHedgehogAlien*
Load More Replies...I put a yellow cap on my black Sharpie on set and no one has touched it 😆
Any professional lingo sounds like gibberish to an outsider. This said, a translation of the above into conventional English would be much appreciated.
Let me give it a shot…(film worker) It’s pretty much a bunch of nonsense lol 10-2 bathroom code for 💩 Martini- last shot of the day Key walkie- press the side button to see if it’s working Abbey Singer- second to the last shot of the day Check the dump with DIT- check if the digital content they filmed is downloaded Honeywagon- film trailer with multiple restrooms Call sheet- list of shots for the next day
Load More Replies...I don't see the connection between the text and the image. Can someone please explain?
I think the image is the heli... like they film the heli to be whatever they need it to be... ex. Attack heli
Load More Replies...*Inhales* Why is it when there's a missing cable it's always a Sony proprietary cable.
noo... because they know you neeeed it... so they will rip you off and dance a freakin' jig while they're at it.
An Alexa 35 sells for about $8000 USD used. Just the body. A total package for a student film is about $25K. To shoot large format about $40K. Amira is their other line and it’s comparable in pricing. Just a little more. None of this includes mounts of any sort.
It's how they post directions to Basecamp, Holding, Set. It's how both Teamsters, and Crew get the final mile, or two, depending on where Locations...in all their wisdom...decide to put us.
Load More Replies...I guess he has a great personality 'cos he doesn't have great looks (But I did hear he has big hands and big feet and a big ...)
After Ariana started going public about his... endowment...after they broke up, Pete let it go for months, but she kept going on about it, so during one of his sets he stated, "I'm not big...have you seen her?... she's TINY".
Load More Replies...This picture looks like she went out with him as a favor for her mom because he is one of her friend's son and he needs some confidence.
You can see the people being Batman in the Snyder Version, this in incorrect. There should be just the vaguest hint of shapes hidden in shadow.
There are Directors who are known for the "look" of their movies. Sometimes that "look" is just heavy, heavy filtering.
Load More Replies...There is a Writer's Strike in progress, plus the Director's Guild, and the Screen Actor's Guild are also talking about going out on Strike. There is no work for Film Crews, at the moment.
Load More Replies...Don't need to be in the movies for that. Which reminds me, I must get ...
