I'll skip how discovering this joyous news came about, save to say the guy who revealed this to me pointed out that if I were not so stubborn and used the full capacity of my computer, I would have discovered this weeks and weeks and weeks ago. The movie moves too fast to spot this in the theater or on a regular dvd player. It has to be done on computer.
Here's what you do to see Me in the Transformers movie!
- Put your dvd into the computer. Go to Chapter 20 (the climactic battle sequence). Click 'play'.
- At 2:02:03, hit the 'slow motion' button, and slow it down to 1/4 speed. The kid is running down the street with the cube, and is just being hit by the Escalade.
- When the kid bounces off the Escalade and into the air, move your cursor over the 'step' button.
- When he hits the ground and blue sparks and a fog come out of the cube, hit the step button. Keep clicking until you get to 2:02:05. The kid is just starting to get up, while behind him on the sidewalk, the guy with the X-Box is about to fall down.
- Focus your attention on the light pole at the left of the screen.
- You will see a woman with a black shirt/dress, silver belt, grey pants and black high-heel boots pop up and haul ass down the sidewalk. You only see her from the back and side.
- THAT'S ME! I run right past the X-Box guy and in front of the homeless guy. I'm running behind a guy in black pants and a dark greenish dress shirt.
- I am on screen from 2:02:05 through 2:02:07!! TWO SECONDS OF GLORY!
- Just realized that at *exactly* 2:02:03 you can see my arms clutching the light pole for dear life, and you can see the very top of my head.
- Because it doesn't look like I have the purse when running, this take is the one where I jumped up, promptly fell over because my legs were cramped and scrambled on my knees until I finally managed to get up and run. I dropped my purse during all that and just left it there. One of the other extras behind me grabbed it and handed it back when we were all down the sidewalk a little bit trying to recover.
Screen cap as soon as we can figure out how to that.
Update! Got 'em! Going to put them in their own post.