You've heard of Team Edward and Team Jacob. Put me on Team "I'm glad I'm not the one to go down in history as being the first person to offer Taylor Lautner a starring role in a major motion picture." A bit long-winded and corny, I know. Hey, so is this movie! And as bad as this film was, the most unrealistic part was that the climax was at a Pittsburgh Pirates game, and there were actually fans in attendance.
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Actually they filmed the movie during a REAL Pirates game, so yeah...I guess there WERE a lot of fans in the audience! They said it was sold-out.
shareMajor-league teams who play like minors often have free premiums in hopes of increasing attendance.
It must have been "See If You Can Get Your Face In A Movie" day.
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There were a lot of paid extras. I was there. But even then, they were struggling, because the company handling the extras for most of the shoot were out-of-towners that had done John Singleton's other films that didn't realize that Pittsburgh has a much smaller pool of people that can reply in the middle of the night to casting notices on Facebook in the middle of the night on the night before than in New York or LA. They were terrible to deal with, but I got a lot of work, because they were never calling anyone and everything was always so last minute. The exterior shots of the stadium were months later, the extras casting was done by a local company, and everything went much smoother.
But yeah, in 2010-2011 when this was shot, no one gave a sh!t about the Pirates. It' wasn't a hard ticket to get, whether it was supposed to be opening day or not.
Wasn't it supposed to be opening day? I don't remember but I think that's one of the few times the Pirates (as does many other teams) actually have large crowds.
shareThere seemed to be an awful lot of people lined up to buy tickets or just wandering around the entrance and concession areas oblivious to the fact the game has started. I'm always amazed how people spot each other in these big crowd scenes too.
shareI'd say that's just poor direction of the extras, the whole "people doing things during the game that you wouldn't be doing DURING the game" thing. It's easy to spot yourself if you know you're around where stuff is actually going on. If you know the stadium, you know where to look, and if you're anywhere near the main actors, you were put there.
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