Quote:Just when I thought there would be no real calling for that skill in the twenty firs century, lol
Since my daughter has been in a casting agency, some years ago, over in a Geelong quarry, they (an American film crew) were filming the remake of Noah's Ark with John Voight.....and then the medieval club was called in to do the fighting with swords....it was really cool to watch, and made me realize, what a skill it is, and lovely to know that this sort of stuff exists, and even nicer to know that they are used for films via casting agencies/film makers etc.
It was a lot of fun we had doing that 2 day event.
The reason the Americans were doing a lot of filming here in Oz, was because if, for example, it cost $40million over in the US, it was half that here in Oz, due to our dollar being worth less than .50c of theirs at the time.
At least the aussie extras and skilled swordsmen got loads of interesting work as a result of the dollar being the way it was....probably about the only positive I could think of for that...loll....