Is your life movie material?

[Deleted member 29185]

I've recently travelled with a great guy (one of my team) for 4 days. It involved the usual... Multiple flights, different hotels, airport transfers, exec. lounges, swimming pools, functions (all inclusive) with high profile pollies, attentive staff who know you (even when you don't know them) , substantial breakfasts, suite upgrades, Nespresso machines, chats with the GM's, etc.

My mate was blown away, especially when a senior Minister spoke extensively with him and even gave him a hug , and he later said to me, “is this all normal to you"?

I thought about his question and came up with a silent answer ... no, usually it's more full on (add int. flights, customs, immigration, trains, Uber, family commitments, delays and for some others, even intrusive media!

So I started wondering ... what if a film crew followed you for a few days. Would you be deathly boring, or a person juggling many balls, trying hard not to drop them?

 

[juddles]

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So I started wondering ... what if a film crew followed you for a few days. Would you be deathly boring, or a person juggling many balls, trying hard not to drop them?

Depends on the days.

These days hopefully they would get bored with a guy re-living Burke's Backyard. But just a year or two ago they would have, if they managed, been ecstatic to still be alive.

 

[snabbu]

I'd guess many of us would lead quite repetitive lives...

Night at home with family/loved ones...
1. Up early to get to the airport...
2. line up in queues, board first of X flights, transfers/delays/misconnections/etc
3. arrive at first of X destinations... uber/train/taxi/etc to hotel
4. try recover from jetlag for early morning starts...
5. work work work for X hours
6. head back to airport, see point 2.
7. arrive next destination, rinse and repeat.
8. happy times when finally on the homeward journey...
9. arrive back home after multiple connections/delays/etc and HOPE you have more than 24 hours till you need to start the process over again.

Hardly riveting viewing.

 

[Happy Trails]

The Invisible Man

 

[theblank]

If a few days of farting, sneezing and picking my nose is entertaining, then where do I sign up?

 

[drron]

If a few days of farting, sneezing and picking my nose is entertaining, then where do I sign up?

Sounds like you are one of my family!

 

[Archipelago]

If I put my life down, even in point form, nobody would believe me

 

[Denali]

Not me but my friend, some of Australia's richest greet her by first name and my friend is technically pleb staff. She greeted Presidents, royalty to Gates ect, has security clearance and can fly a plane in an emergency.

Her non work travel adventures are far more interesting than her work.

My life, unless it's a cooking show, would be boring and involve a lot of "Get out of my kitchen!"

 

[LadyC]

Happy to have a 'boring' life that would be make insomniacs fall asleep. Certainly not film worthy. At one point in my life, it felt like I was living in some cheap version of the TV series Falcon Crest and it was way too much drama for my liking. No drama = good.

 

[GoldCanyon340]

My life, unless it's a cooking show, would be boring and involve a lot of "Get out of my kitchen!"

That's *exactly* what I say to people too (unless they're Italian... Italians are welcome in my kitchen)

 

[GoldCanyon340]

When you watch 'Up In The Air' to find you're the only one laughing at the scene where Bingham is trying to check in at the hotel where he has no status then the answer to OP's question is a Yes.

 

[boomy]

When the movie Up in The Air first came out I was at the peak of my travels (over 200 flights a year) and was amused to see how many similarities the movie had to my real life - constant domestic travel, thinking airports are the happiest place on earth, staying at Hilton properties, renting with Hertz, not spending a dime unless it earned FF points, late night drinks with strangers at hotel bars comparing loyalty programme cards and sometimes even more...

Yep been there done all that. It’s all fun and games when you’re young single high flyer, it is very much really like in the movies! Maybe if I had the right contacts in Hollywood back then

These days my life if far more boring working in a different role with not much exciting travel but at least my health improved (stopped smoking, eating less lounge food and more home cooked).

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Certainly not me but quite common knowledge that Tommy, penegal and boomy have been earmarked by Hollywood heavyweights fort next remake of 'The 3 Stooges' - should be a blockbuster!!!

 

[JohnK]

Boring life but 2 year old daughter has added much more meaning to life.

 

[OZDUCK]

Anyone who has had the misfortune to sit through a screening of " Fly" a pretentious, boring vanity product of Yoko Ono and John Lennon would have an idea about how exciting a movie of my life would be. Fly (1970) - IMDb

 

[cove]

So we could get to sit and watch boomy, penegal and tv in a blockbuster. Should I be organizing the casting or just wait it out for the invite to opening night?

 

[Cruiser Elite]

So we could get to sit and watch boomy, penegal and tv in a blockbuster. Should I be organizing the casting or just wait it out for the invite to opening night?

Try to book your tix for opening night well in advance - not to be missed - I have been privy to leaked info regarding opening scene:

Film opens with broad external view of OT then zooms in through front window to the 3 Stooges dotted around a table just finishing their meals - empty Porphyry Pearl and Rawson Retreat botts on table - opening line is penegal pronouncing to other 2 Stooges - ‘guys I have forgotten my wallet’ - glancing looks from boomy to Tommy - a chorus response from all 3 Stooges - ‘gee - we are not used to be being here on our own without grown-ups - what do we do now?’ - at this point it becomes obvious this new fiction classic could actually be lifted from real life experiences!

 

[cove]

Why not make it into Opera On The Water as I feel certain that they could think about singing after a couple of bottles of Pearl and Retreat.I think 2020 slot is still available.
We could get there in a water taxi as VIP guests.

 

[Forg]

Short answer: no.
More verbose answer: oh, no, definitely no!

 

[kermatu]

Not yet.

Aspects of my life to date would be. But only because cameras strictly forbidden, so if there was footage it would be gold (to some).