I am the owner of a professional science fiction screenplay called The Graviton Ring and the Structure of Everything.
I agree that being a movie extra is exciting.
It was also one of the most painful and dangerous jobs that I have ever performed. All for minimum wages, and even less than minimum respect for one's safety. Some of the sets were extremely dangerous places. At least once I came within a few inches of falling through an unmarked hole in a deck. What would have been a free fall, down several stories onto frozen ice, was avoided only by my tendency to look down while walking. After climbing up and down from the deck, carrying several pounds of gear, though a tiny corridor of steps, I could no...
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