If you've ever seen a movie shooting in a public place, on a city street or even in a park, you know it can get chaotic. Pas are everywhere trying to shoo away gawkers, and it takes for everyone to shush everyone enough to get decent sound for one shot.
That's what I thought about while watching these two videos taken on the set of Angels and Demons in Rome. The website, BadTaste, has a title in English, but nothing else. The whole site is written in Italian, and I didn't even take a Romance language in college. So I have no idea what's written to go along with the videos, and they may explain everything in them. But from what I can tell, there's not much to see.
A man who appears to be Tom Hanks with his nasty Da Vinci Code hair pulls up in a little black car. He and three other people get out, and walk away from the car. In the second video they talk to someone just outside the car. This could be a case of shooting a scene two different ways, or just two takes that show different parts of the action. Ayelet Zurer, who will be the female lead in the movie, is apparently also in the scene.
Yeah, like I said, not much. I've embedded them below so you can check them out for yourself. They're short to watch, and hey, if you can't get enough Hanks, now you know what it would be like to be mere yards away from the man himself.
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It says:
"Sure it was a hard thing shooting in a such cahotic big city like Rome, with not enough time for doing that (only three weeks of shootings for so many outside takings). Wednesday the cast has worked in Piazza del Popolo (People's Square), surely for the scene in which they find the first missing cardinal, as you can see in the photos published on the Repubblica's site (online Italian newspaper, n.d.r.: http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/multimedia/divi/Tom-Hanks-e-Ron-Howard-a-Roma-per-Angeli-e-Demoni/2318132/5/1#fotogallery). In these photos, starring Tom Hanks and Ayelet Zuer, we can also find a nice surprise: the presence of Pierfrancesco Favino, who has become, after "Night at the Museum" and "Prince Caspian, the most engaged Italian actor abroad. From the images, Favino seems to play a vatican security agent, maybe one of the chiefs of security (commander Olivetti?)
That was written before the two videos. If you need, I can translate all the rest ;)
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June 9th, 2008 at 00:13
It says:
"Sure it was a hard thing shooting in a such cahotic big city like Rome, with not enough time for doing that (only three weeks of shootings for so many outside takings). Wednesday the cast has worked in Piazza del Popolo (People's Square), surely for the scene in which they find the first missing cardinal, as you can see in the photos published on the Repubblica's site (online Italian newspaper, n.d.r.: http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/multimedia/divi/Tom-Hanks-e-Ron-Howard-a-Roma-per-Angeli-e-Demoni/2318132/5/1#fotogallery). In these photos, starring Tom Hanks and Ayelet Zuer, we can also find a nice surprise: the presence of Pierfrancesco Favino, who has become, after "Night at the Museum" and "Prince Caspian, the most engaged Italian actor abroad. From the images, Favino seems to play a vatican security agent, maybe one of the chiefs of security (commander Olivetti?)
That was written before the two videos. If you need, I can translate all the rest ;)