DOWNEY TURNS TO FUTURE WAR SET? Old Downey T3 set turns to rubble! Reported By: René de Jong Tuesday, September 17, 2002 Papa Razzi and The Charminatrix return for more cyborg juice on T3! Papa Razzi: The Charminatrix and I visited the Downey set on Sunday. Charminatrix, with her keen eye for detail shot still photographs while I roamed about shooting digital video. The black and green vinyl mesh that once covered the chain link fences is all but gone. The set is in plain sight, or at least what is left of it. It could be another scene from the future world where ruins of former buildings litter the landscape amidst rubble and human bones. The exception is there are no bones in sight, nor killer cyborgs working in tandem with aerial units prowling the set. The crew have gathered up all the reusable items; bus shelters, litter baskets, U S Post Office mailboxes, and an array of other miscellany. Some doors and other building elements have been stacked. A platoon of used five gallon buckets of paint stand at attention, stacked single file. At another end of the set, it looks like a small nursery with a variety of shrubs and small trees bunched together. All of this will be recycled somewhere else. The rest lays in wait to be demolished, returning the former Boeing manufacturing site to a ghost town of peeling paint and rusting metal until it is revived by the next movie company. It is sad, indeed, to bear witness to impending destruction of this street. It is like watching the slow death of a friend. Fortunately, the street will eventually spring to eternal life on film. We have borne witness to it's birth and evolution over the weeks. We grew to know every square inch of it, discovering new angles to take our photographs with each day that passed. We took simple pleasure in watching the various changes that took place; some dramatic and others very subtle. It was a challenge to second guess what was going to take place and where. The set became a friend to us and we will mourn it's reclamation. We will also miss the different crew people we came in contact with over the last couple months. They were all in all really great folks. We fully understood that they had jobs to do and for our part, we wanted to make certain that things were as agreeable as possible. We were not there to become an obstacle and we hoped we conveyed an element of cooperation. Who knows, perhaps the time will come in the not too distant future we can buy them a beer and trade stories. Until then, we have the excruciating wait until the debut of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Then we can marvel at all that movie magic assembling the bits and pieces that we have seen into a cohesive visual thriller. Papa Razzi ---------- René de Jong

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