Very Cool, What movies were you an extra in?
I was on China Beach a couple times, played Amish on Murder She Wrote, I was in Army of Darkness, a few sitcoms, and a Guiness beer commercial with Rutger Hauer. (Got a chance to discuss that crossbow he carried in Lady Hawk.)
RH just died not to long ago. What did he have to say about the CB?
I had studied that crossbow, frame by frame in the movie, intending to recreate it. The more I studied it, the less sense it made. It was a double decker crossbow with top and bottom bows, and no matter how i figured it out, there was no mechanism i could foresee that would keep that bottom bolt in place, and still fire, as shown in one very brief scene. It baffles me. I had to ask....
Turns out, it was held in place with super glue! And the one very close, fast shot you see fired, was a mock up piece, using compressed air to throw the bolt. It was too close a camera shot to see how it's fired, but just enough to see it launch off the bottom rail. (Lol...movie magic. How tall was King King? 3 feet.
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