... and to think this all happened on Garfield II ...
I had heard rumors of a crouton fracas on set. Some had said cheese was the undoing of an extra's coil, but I held out for croutons.
Sure enuff, on the luvely background board called Background Beat -- it's all been documented. While filming Garfield may have been peaches and cream, Garfield II has come with some psychic weight. The actual participants have testified in the Court of Background Opinion. I'm going to post the link to the thread, but I'll also try and spell out what happened below, as the linked thread is sort of stream-of-consciousness, like you're a kid in front of the assistant principal, stifling tears and spilling out your story.
http://www.backgroundbeat.com/index.php?showtopic=1450&hl=
Apparently the croutons were not for salad, they were soup croutons. They were specifically for onion soup. Now, I'm starting to get behind this dude -- salad can be had without croutons, but Onion soup? I don't know what third world dogtown you hail from, but here in the states we eat our Onion soup with croutons.
I've had my soup nazi moments on set. People ripping soup right outta my hands, telling me it was crew-only soup. At first you feel shame for your Oliver Twist moment, and then the anger surges through you when you realize no one said this was sacrosanct soup. It was from the same craft services table you had been eating from all day. I knew that one day this background broth would come to a boil ...
The extra challenged craft services about the croutons being withheld and said that the soup nazi:
"just was on her own controlling the lives of background"
the transpo guy came to tell crouton-crisis extra to leave. extra questioned the authority of a mere transportation guy for set removal. Then, crouton-crisis extra claims: two "mexican" security guards entered the fray. Not sure the importance of their ethnicity, and it's never referred to again. Meanwhile, others on the thread questioned his recall:
"I’m shocked and appalled at such a testimonial. One guard was black, one Italian and the other white-white"
Ohhhhhhhhhh: "white-white." That's some Caucasian crouton crisis right there, brother.
and then another challenged the whole reality of crouton crisis extra calling the soup lady "very mean and treating all background as sh**."
This from an extra referring to himself as Bing Bing:
"She even pleasantly gave me extra cheese without the croutons in the home made onion soup she personally prepared on the spot. "
Yet, no matter how pleasantly she gave Bing Bing his cheesy onion soup, there were indeed NO croutons for him either. His underlining of this passages leaves us no doubt.
Question: Are croutons pricey? Has there been a run on them since the various plagues have been visiting mother earth lately? Do croutons signify status now? Are poor people buying knock-off croutons on the black market? These are viable questions before I can assign guilt to any of the actors in this real-life drama.
All of this horror happened to one of our more elevated background players. This crouton-crisis fellow had run for leadership positions in SAG, which is the union for all actors -- both "fore" and "back" ground. He was a bad Florida recount away from becoming vested with union power, and now crouton-crisis extra is removed from the set, complete with a visit from the Beverly Hills Police.
Read his final words on the subject:
"And Production crews never ever check both side story, they rather lash on background. And even Background Casting Directors have no spine to support or help background, even they lash on background whenever they get chance."
[bold, underling and italics of the word "lash" were added for this report. all bold, underling and italics are purely the perrogativee of this blog and in no way reflect the actual emphasis deemed by crouton-crisis extra]
1 Comments:
why is this so funny to me? im not sure; but maybe we should bring our own croutons from home?
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