What was it like to be a runner in WWI?
It was certainly one of the worst, with a high casualty rate... but not the highest. The highest casualty rate, as far as I'm aware, was among stretcher-bearers. Stretcher-bearers on the Western front sufferred 80% casualty rates, as opposed to 33% for front-line troops. The difference is that stretcher-bearers are at the front all the time. Runners are drawn from the ranks of the infantry units, and the infantry units usually spend about a quarter of their posting in the front line area. So while a runner's job is dangerous, he gets periods of comparative safety when his unit rotates back to the reserve area. The risks for a runner depended very much on whether he was a low-level messenger, or higher. The lower the level, the closer you are to the front line. A platoon-level runner is going to be taking messages to and from the front line itself, to company command. A runner from company command is going to be taking some messages to Battalion or Regimental HQ in the support trenches or reserve area, but some forward to the platoons on the front line. At Battalion/Regimental level, a runner is going to be going from the reserve area to the support trenches. These guys are usually out of sight of direct-fire weapons, such as snipers and machine-gun fire. But the reserve areas were still in range of artillery fire. (Adolf Hitler was a regimental HQ runner... still dangerous duty, but most of the work was not front-line.) One of the reasons for high casualties among runners was that, often, you had no way of knowing if your message had got through. So if the situation was urgent, the procedure was to just keep sending men until you recieved a reply. That meant if a sniper had spotted your runner, all he had to do was wait for the next guy. It also meant that men would be sent out into the shelling with a message that had already been delivered... but the reply hadn't got back yet. There were fewer runners needed at the higher levels. As you went up the chain of command, there's more chance of having working field telephones, or decent roads for despatch riders. Hope that helps!
What details from the movie Blade Runner are commonly misunderstood?
Roy Batty makes fun of Leon for wanting to go back to their old hideout to get his photographs. Leon knows he’s a robot; he knows the photographs of his family are fake and yet he risks his life to get them. Such was the power of the imprinting of the fake memories that the robot was willing to die and risk the lives of his friends to get them.Deckard is not a replicant. There are no “subtle hints” that he is, at least not to me, unless you think the words of Gaff at the end, “It’s too bad she won’t live. But then no one ever does!”. It was a cool touch in the uneven sequel to have Gaff, the once-upon-a-time too cool detective now a grouchy, fat, broken-down old man in a nursing home. All that work for nothing.We never see it but Roy Batty kills JF Sebastion either in the elevator or just outside it at Tyrell’s house. I don’t know if that part ended up on the cutting room floor but you have to accept it since he is gone when Roy goes to kill Tyrell. It really makes no sense for Roy to go to see Tyrell at all - what does he think Tyrell is going to do? Give him a shot or a pill that will give them more life? Even if there was a solution it hardly seems likely that Tyrell would have provided it once Roy and Pris were strapped to a table. So it always had to be about killing Tyrell, not about the chase for immortality.In any event, Tyrell is either a liar or a fool because, supposedly Rachel has “no termination date” - she’s essentially human. Tyrell must have known that, just as he must have known Roy was going to kill him. So not only was everything he told Roy a lie, he died to protect the truth, which makes no sense at all. The fact that Rachel has no uterus is never brought up until the sequel, so in the first movie there is nothing distinguishing her from a real person.It is probably Sean Young’s best movie. She was at her height of beauty, sexuality and acting ability. After that she became and unstable meglomaniac and destroyed her career. She never really worked in anything “good” after “No Way Out” in 1987 when, had she played her cards right, she could have been Angelina Jolie or Julia Roberts. She still works - but in tertiary roles. But in 1982 she was the hottest thing on the screen.
Will there be a Blade Runner 3 movie?
Just to be clear about 1 particular thing. Blade Runner 2 made way more money than the original Blade Runner ever did. It just so happens, that in retrospect, BR #1 has received the designation as ‘cult classic’. I’m not quite sure how a movie gets such a designation, thats probably a question for another place and time.It could very well come to pass that BR 2 gets to be a cult classic one of these days. The director has said that he has more footage - but he’s said in interviews that he won’t be releasing a 4 hr version. I’m inclined to believe him on that.As for whether or not there will be a 3rd movie, perhaps there someday will. I figure if it does happen, it will be several years from now and so none of the main actors in BR 1 & 2 will be in it. Well, maybe Jared Leto.I have my doubts that Harrison Ford would return for a 3rd one, for that reason alone, the fate of the franchise might very well be sealed.They could potentially reboot the entire series.
What do the runners use to make that organ sound in their beats such as hustlin by rick ross?
an organ
Matt Damon's New Production Company?
Here's the latest from www.people.com...you will see that they have a Disney connection now, perhaps that is how you can connect with them? Good Luck! Ben Affleck Humbled by Show Biz Venture The PEOPLE cover boy and his pal and business partner, Matt Damon, are aiming to reposition their Live Planet production company. MONDAY AUGUST 05, 2002 01:00 AM EDT By Stephen M. Silverman This week's PEOPLE cover boy, Ben Affleck, is getting a lot of press on Monday, and it's not for his relationship with Jennifer Lopez. Both The New York Times and Variety look into his and his business partner (and pal) Matt Damon's Live Planet production company, with The Times painting a less-than-rosy picture of its past and present. The paper says that Live Planet, which sought to combine the Internet with mainstream entertainment programming, had to weather Affleck's drinking and gambling problems last year, as well as disenchantment in the marketplace with most Internet-related businesses and, perhaps the biggest blow of all, ABC's pulling the plug on the company's planned reality series "The Runner." "It's been a collectively humbling experience," Affleck, who turns 30 on Aug. 15, told The Times. Variety, however, is more upbeat in its reportage on Affleck and Live Planet, noting that he, Damon and their business partners have secured a two-year deal at Disney for the production company, with an aim at launching feature films. Damon, 31, and Affleck won't necessarily star in the movies, says Variety, though their business partners, Chris Moore and Sean Bailey, say that they would like to find vehicles for the leading men. Affleck previously starred for Disney in "Pearl Harbor" and "Armageddon."
How do I find production assistant or runner work on low budget movies & short films in London?
“Most students were so eager for field experience, that most gigs were unpaid.” As an another user wrote, this is something that is very important to consider. When I was a student working on productions, I didn’t get paid at all really. But as a student, I wasn’t interested in getting paid, I was interested in building my career, my resume, and portfolio.If you’re in London, there are numerous websites that one can go to to get work on low budget projects as well as short films, including student films. As that same other user wrote, school can give you referrals. You can also try sites like: artjobs-a UK based website, IMDB list numerous job offers for indie projects, Craigslist often looks for videographers and PA’s. Check out the London and United Kingdom Film Commissions. I would also simply Google production companies in London and ask to volunteer on set. Not many will say no to volunteers. If you have a resume and a portfolio, and if that company is hiring then apply. If the company is public then they’ll more than likely have open positions. If they’re private then not so much.