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MARCH 2001
The title is the name given to casino
people who rarely see the light of day.
The
Story
Mickey and Joe are a couple of out of work actors who leave
Glasgow for Tinsel Town. Their actor friends there have told them they are
contracted to a studio,(Steve and Bobby) and they boast about their pad in the
Hollywood Hills. When Mickey and Joe arrive in Los Angeles they discover their
friends have not told them the whole truth. They are contracted to a Hollywood
studio, but as floor cleaners, not actors. The pad in the Hollywood Hills turns
out to be a disused helicopter pad, with a parked battered bus on it that they
live in.
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Mickey and Joe
find that they can't get work in Scottish themed no hope projects like
Braveheart 2, because they don't have stereotypical orange hair, they look like
they walked off the set of the Sopranos. After a few days they all decide to
fix up the bus and head for Las Vegas to enter an annual card game. On the
journey there they get caught up in a gas station stick up by a misfit Scot
(Jackie), and get mistaken for Polish and Russians because of their indefinable
accents. A speak and spell machine comes in handy.
When they arrive in
Las Vegas they find out the card game has been changed to Atlantic city this
year, so they play the tables and lose all their money within five minutes.
They blend in well with the Pasty faced locals in the casino's, and get spotted
by a local ganglords gofer. He makes them an offer they find hard to refuse
because they are broke. He wants them to rob a hotel/casino, they agree, but
they later find out that it is one of the biggest casino's on the Las Vegas
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How the film
got made
In February 98 David Paul Baker wrote a play and staged it
at his local arts centre with the help of his mother, who until the was a house
wife with no experience in the business. It was an acting showcase that cost a
couple of thousand pounds. David decided that the only way to "make it" would
be to turn it into a film. He had no personal savings or finances, but got a
thousand pound grant for stationary, a fax machine, and set up as a limited
company, it was the spark.
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Over the next
two years David and his Mother and Sister would take risks and take the biggest
gamble of their lives trying to get the movie off the ground. David's Sister
(Julie) had worked 9 to 5 retail job since she left school, but she got such a
buzz after helping back stage during the play that she asked David if she could
be involved with getting a movie off the ground. Over the next two years they
would raise private investment from friends and family to shoot a promo trailer
in the states, then they started to shoot a feature totally financed by credit
cards. They ran out of finance half way through the shoot, so David and Julie
travelled around the world to try and secure the rest of the
finance.
After a lot of struggles they secured a deal to completely
remake the film. The deal was made with three London film Companies and private
investors. Victor Film Company (The Krays) Noel Gay Motion Picture (Hellraiser,
Trainspotting) Metrodome Distribution ( Human Traffic) and Angad Paul,
Executive Producer of 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch". David
wrote, directed and could play one of the leads in Pasty Faces. Julie was his
assistant on the film and his Mother overseen a documentary that they had been
shooting from the very start. Pasty Faces went into production February 2000.
It was shot between Scotland, L.A and Las Vegas. The UK release is scheduled
for April 2001. |
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