5-2Movie extras Vocabulary&Summary

Vocabulary

1 coffin: a box in which a dead body
2 staff: the group of people who work
3 extra: a person in a film, who has a small unimportant part, for example in a crowd
4 agency: a business that provides a particular servies
5 lookalike: someone is similar to a famous person
6 sumo: (日)相撲
7 wrestler: fighter
8 register: an offical list of names, etc or a book that contains this kind of list= enrol
9 ethnic: connected with or typical of a particular race or religion
10 brass: a hard yellow metal this is a mixture of two other metals;
the group of musical instruments that are made of bass
11 premature: baby born before the expected time
12 panicky: fearful
13 dilemma: a situation in which you have to make a difficult choice
between two or more things
14 replacement: a person or thing that will take place of sb/sth
15 commission: money that you get for selling sth
16 tureover: the rate at which workers leave a company and are replaced by new ones
17 flexible: that can be change easily
18 motivating: to cause sb to act in a particular way
19 factor: one of the things that influences a decision, situation, etc
20 available: (used about people) free to be seen, talked to etc
21 instinctively adv. ; instinct: the natural force that causes a person or animal
to behave in a paricular way without thinking or learning about it
22 bum: (on insulting word) for a person who lives on the street
23 pass for: to be accepted as sb/sth that he/she/it is not
24 cast: all the actors in a play, film
25 charge: the price that you must pay for sth
26 dimension: size
27 doggone: extremely

Summary

The reason why people work as movie extras is that they want to do something different, rather to make money.

The article is about the movie extras, the agency find a lookalike as substitute for star, and many people for crown sence.
Once found the extra within the hour for an brass band, a newborn baby, and Dalmatian, and so on.
The way can find fast the extra is good connections and fast phone work.
People as the extra, because it is interesting.
They can do something different, and get out of the house and onto a movies set, but being the extra get few money.