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So Mrs. Luftmentsh and I drove down to scenic Barnesville Georgia last year on a scavenging trip (unsuccessful) only to discover that Barnesville had ceased to exist, and in it’s place was a town called “Wind Gap”. Turns out the whole town down to the last detail had been convetted to an outdoor set for the (now airing) HBO miniseries “Sharp Objects”.
https://imgur.com/a/wQzvUT6There were fliers, posters, all kinds of ephemera that could have been snagged for potential resale if the series turned out to be popular. But did I think of it? Nooo.
They film a lot in Ga these days. They filmed this down the street from Luftmentsh manor last spring.
https://imgur.com/a/xjr2bbr
“Bad Moms’ Xmas” Bad movie, I think. Real snow, though; they had to keep blowing it on for a week because the rain and heat kept melting it.Anyway, did I get anything from that shoot? Nooo. I’m gonna keep my eyes out though–better late than never!
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I imagine so. But I really thought I’d take a wrong turn for a minute when I rounded the bend and sae the big wooden sign welcoming us to Wind Gap!
Barnesville’s on a sort of “golden arc” in middle Ga that includes settings for notable film projects including Fried Green Tomatoes (Juliet Ga), My Cousin Vinny (Monticello Ga) and The Walking Dead (Senoia Ga).
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Cool. Any idea why Georgia is so attractive to film makers? Tax incentives? Or….?
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Up here in NW Georgia (Rome) they just finished 5 days of filming 4 miles from my house on Saturday. We have a fairly new highway loop that barely gets any traffic so its been used a few times for different movies. I drove my car in it for 2 of the days they were filming, including this last Saturday. The pay stinks but I got to see Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper up close and personal. It’s the first set I’ve worked on in almost 2 years, I took a hiatus because the pay is not worth the crazy long hours and unpredictable working conditions. But this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to work on a Clint Eastwood movie and it was only 4 miles away.
Whenever possible I try to keep one souvenir from each set I work on (nothing stolen) such as a script page thrown away by a production assistant, a parking pass, name lanyard. I don’t dare sell them on eBay – i’d be banned from every set for life if I did and got caught.
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Hey, that’s right–I forgot you’re in the business, Julie!
Well, now, you wouldn’t get banned if you “laundered” items through a 3rd party, would you?
I coulda been in the business. Did scenic carpentry years ago. Passed up a chance to join the union and work on conventions at the Congress Center. Passed on craft service jobs. I’ve known lots of folks over the years in the business including prop buyer for Green Tomatoes.
I think it was the long hours, like you said, and the unpredictability, and I think I’d be misserable having to stand around for hours and then be expected be sharp as a tack and moving double-quick.
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Yes! I don’t know how the full time crews can do that every single day! They are almost always on set a minimum of 14 hours. They might be outside in 100 degrees for days, working a day shift one day and then overnight the next. And I don’t think the base pay is that good. It’s all the extra pay the unions negotiate that earns them their money: time and half after 8 hours, double pay after so many hours, extra pay if they don’t get 10 hours off between shifts, extra pay if they don’t break in time for lunch etc. I was once on a horrible set for 20 hours. I think the crew were getting quadruple pay at that point. Me and the other lowly extras were only getting time and a half.
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Interesting about Barnesville. Went to school there for a while at Gordon Military College which has now been converted to a Univ. of Ga. satellite branch. Walked up and down the city streets many times.
Most of our relatives are in Thomaston, GA. a short distance south of Barnesville. I grew up in Columbus, GA about 60 miles south.
Got to watch John Wayne make parts of the movie the Green Berets’ in Columbus. Most of it was filmed out on Fort Benning, but the night time house scene was made across the street from my house. We walked across the street and up a small path in the woods and we popped out on the edge of the set. They used a house up in the woods because they said it was in the style of a south east asian house simililar to those in Vietnam. We watched them shoot ecah day and night for about two weeks. Tons of trailers around for food, make-up, dressing rooms and of course we were within a few feet of several of the stars including John Wayne. Man was he a “big guy”.
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So’s anyone had luck flipping props and such? What’s called anyway, cinemaiana? Filmorabilia? Moviementos?
I was watching an old episode of Roadshow the other day with the headboard from Godfather II that appraised for huge $. Somebody on Craigslist locally a while back was trying to get a couple thousand for a desk he said was Vito Corleone’s from Godfather I. When I pointed out that the desk is in a museum in Cali, he said it was the “backup desk”. Backup desk? Maybe, but I don’t think he could document the provenance.
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I don’t know how one would go about authenticating that stuff. There is a large prop house in Atlanta that sells off its excess props about twice a year – I’ve never gone to their sales.
I have found that if a famous actress wears something such as a dress in a scene or even out in public, dresses just like it will sell for a lot more on Ebay. Years ago when I was a rookie to eBay I had a basic H&M dress on auction (back when thats how most of us sold stuff). I got a message asking me to sell it to a buyer immediately and to mail it express as it was going to be a “gift” to a friend. I was naive. I removed the auction and sold it to her only to discover later that it was the same dress as one worn by an actress in the Vampire Diaries. I could have probably sold it for $200 instead of $20. The buyer resold it for big profits.
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I went to a moving sale a couple of years ago at the house of a local film wardrobe person (not sure exact job) who was selling costumes from the Hunger Games, which, of course, filmed around here. The were some cool (and well made) uniforms and other pieces offered at $10-20, but I didn’t feel confident enough to risk the $.
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The more I think about the rabid cosplay community, the more I think I should have bought some of that stuff.
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We started Sharp Objects and it’s fantastic, what a cute town. We live in MO, so I was like “I’ll bet they filmed this in GA, not Wind Gap, “Missouri!” Much like Ozark which isn’t filmed in our Ozarks except random b-roll (Netflix).”
A friend just moved to GA to work in film from LA, bought a house, the whole nine. Something he could never do in LA.
As far as selling props goes, I am a fan of FX’s The Americans and some costumes and props are on eBay now. I don’t know what the heck I would do with these clothes from the 80s that are size 2, but it’s fun to look. The seller does a great job of screen grabbing the scene they are in for the listings and including an auth certificate.
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