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[Extra nods]
PDL pointing to another extra: “Yes, you are from…”
[Extra pretends he can’t talk]
PDL: “He’s mute. He’s mute. He doesn’t know where he’s from.”
(Various scenes from Moebius)
Title: SG-1 Directors series, Peter DeLuise, “Moebius”
PDL back on location: “The title of this episode is ‘Moebius’, it’s the last in the two parter of season eight. And it involves going back in time to ancient Egypt to try to find a ZPM – a zero point module, which is the power supply we need to power the intergalactic barcalounger, which helps defend Earth. And also allows us to gate to the Pegasus Galaxy where Atlantis is. So our characters are very keen to find that power source, so that they can gate to Atlantis, the spin off episode, and possibly be on it. So they’re highly motivated to be on that other show. Because it might go on for years and years whereas SG-1 might stop this year, and so they don’t wanna be out of a job.
Man to RDA trying on the first ‘funny hat’: “It’s really attractive”
PDL: “So that’s on Rick”
RDA: “Wait a minute!”
PDL: “We gotta give you a better…no it’s making me laugh, Rick. Come on.”
[CJ, AT’s stand in and MS laughing in the background]
RDA: “Well then it’s working”
PDL: “Well then it’s working”
PDL: “You wanna be the only one who doesn’t look cool?”
[AT checks her hat in a mirror]
RDA: “Yes! Don’t you get it? I’ve built a career on that”
PDL: “If we go for funny, it should look more funny”
RDA: “What is that option, so we can appease Mr DeLuise’s conservative approach to film making?”
RDA trying another ‘hat’: “How’s that?”
PDL: “No, it’s too funny”
RDA: “What? God it works. Let me see” [looks in a mirror] “There, it’s good. It’s not a flattop”
[RDA pulls a face and looks at PDL with the funny hat on, PDL chokes up]
RDA: “I’ll make it work. I won’t make it funny”
PDL: “You’re just gonna act not funny?”
RDA: “Yes!” [To the camera] “Are you chronicling how difficult we are?”
[A man stretches another hat over RDA’s head, RDA looks at PDL in mock seriousness, and PDL and CJ crack up laughing]
PDL with the same man, with yet another hat: “This is gonna look good”
RDA: “It’ll look boring”
PDL: “Boring, but not funny. Push forward” [PDL struggles to get the ‘hat’ to sit properly on RDA’s head] “Good. Better. Much better. Ok. Now we shoot.”
RDA: “It must be dull”
Man off camera: “Lawrence of Arabia”RDA checking himself in a mirror: “That’s the look I was going for”
Man: “Ok, laugh-in’s over”
PDL: “That’s the hat we should’ve had on Richard Dean Anderson. Simulating 3000 B.C. ancient Egypt is very difficult because we don’t know for sure what kind of utensils they had, the makers of the Pyramids. They didn’t have Sears or Home Depot in the old days. They didn’t have burlap. They just had ancient Egyptian cloth. So this man has not soiled himself” [Points to an extra] “Somebody went ahead and took his burlap and dipped it in something to give him that special look. But don’t be fooled – he has not soiled himself, somebody else soiled him for him”
PDL directing a young boy: “You’re standing here, Sina. You’re looking at the fire, like this. And then they come around the corner and I say ‘Sina’ you look at them and go ‘Calabim! Calabim!’ and you run over here ok? All right let’s practice”
PDL walking behind the camera set up: “It’s good, it’s fun directing children, cos they’re so natural. Sometimes. And action, Fin. And Sina”
[The boy runs towards PDL while saying his lines]
PDL: “No, no. You’re supposed to look at the white people first. Good, good. Action, Fin. Sina”
[This time the boy jumps around in a circle before running towards PDL and saying his lines]
PDL: “Sina, you’ve got to concentrate, for crying out loud. Go back to the fire. Action, Rick. Sina”
RDA as Jack to the boy: “Hey, wait”
[The boy goes to RDA]
PDL: “No, Sina, he’s acting. Go back. Don’t…just ignore him. Sometimes you give them bad direction. And they copy you exactly because they want to please you. So you go ‘Why is that little boy running like an overweight 38 year old?’ Oh, cos I’m an overweight 38 year old. [Laughs]
Boy: “Calabim! Calabim!”
PDL: “Good. What you did was very good, Sina”
(Scene where the boys runs away from AU SG-1 as they enter the village)
PDL: “In ancient Egypt it was quite common for white people to show up and speak perfect English. No one questioned it. Like when Jesus was born. Three wise men came up with frankincense, myrrh and gold. And they said, ‘We’ve got plenty of frankincense and myrrh’ ‘No more frankincense and myrrh, just bring on the gold’. Myrrh, myrrh, myrrh. Myrrh is gum resin. They bought the messiah gum.”
PDL to Bill Nikolai?: “No, no, but the white people, they all look alike when they’re in a cluster. Afraid.” [To camera] “Oh, I didn’t know you were taping that”
CJ: “Egypt and there’s no black people. Egypt and I’m the only black person”
Man off camera: “Jesus was white”
[CJ laughs]
PDL: “White people tend to gather in clusters. Ethnic people, they just walk about doing their own thing”
Man off camera: “Here we go. Here we go”
PDL: “I’m going to hell for that bit”PDL in the sandbanks: “Behind me is a spaceship called the Puddle Jumper, because it jumps through the puddle that is the event horizon that is the Stargate and our characters will be coming out of the jumper”
[Several crew members run towards the Puddle Jumper, flapping their arms] “And pushing a button that causes it to go invisible. And that’s the scene we’re shooting now. They’ve landed in ancient Egypt, 3000 B.C., and they’re gonna walk to a tent village of peasants, in the shadows of the sphinx. He said ‘sphinx’” [Covers mouth like it was a naughty word]
(Scene where the jaffa find the sand resting on the invisible Puddle Jumper)
PDL: “In this scene our heroes come back only to find out that their invisible Puddle Jumper has been discovered by the enemy because a bunch of sand has blown up on top of it”
PDL directing RDA: “Now I want you to groucho towards the end. Good.” [To CJ] “You can do whatever you want. You do Sanford. [PDL impersonates Sanford’s walk]
PDL to camera: “That was Sanford. That was Redd Foxx. I was teaching Chris. I said to Richard Dean Anderson: ‘Groucho’, which means crouching before you hit your mark. But for Chris Judge it was Redd Foxx.
PDL to actors as they’re filming: “You don’t have to run. You can just go double speed and not actual running.
[RDA trips on his robes and falls on the sand dune]
PDL: “Groucho into position. Oh!”
RDA: “Down goes O’Neill”
(Scene where SG-1 finds the jaffa have discovered the Puddle Jumper)
PDL while the crew make hand signals behind his head: “And so they’re cut off from their time machine which is inside their Puddle Jumper ship. And they have to live out their lives in ancient Egypt eating grapes and having Egyptian orgies. [Notices what the crew are doing and grabs the closest one, everyone laughs]
(Scene where SG-1 decide what to do now that their ship has been discovered)
[Shooting that scene]
PDL directing: “O’Neill gets pissed off”
[RDA spits on the ground]
PDL: “And walks away, but still staying low as to not be seen”
[RDA stands upright and gives the ‘up yours’ gesture to the jaffa, everyone laughs]
PDL: “And we all walk away”
(Montage of the crew sweeping away footprints in the sand near the Puddle Jumper, everyone trying on their hats, MS ‘acting Egyptian’, PDL walking over a sand dune, jaffa costumes being fitted, RDA and CJ laughing, someone yanking too hard on RDA’s hat *oww!* CJ sneaking behind RDA and tripping him with his robes, as he falls, he grabs CJ’s robes and he in turn trips over trying to get away)
PDL directing: “Oh yeah. You know what you’re doing. Just disregard me. I obviously don’t know what I’m talking about…”
*Fin* (sorry about the formatting)
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Date: July 16th, 2007 11:05 pm (UTC)I don't know what's out there to even make a request. Do what works best for you, and if something comes to me I'll let you know. :)
Thanks for these!
Filming of Moebius
Date: July 23rd, 2007 12:40 pm (UTC)