Expose a movie visual effect.
I think this .gif from "Safety Last!" is interesting.
https://giphy.com/gifs/l0Ex0UXWwyfZyu2M8
This video was kinda interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIbbYl77GxM
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This reminds of a stunt done by Tom Cruise in one of the later Mission Impossibles. I remember they showed him doing it, and said it wasn't special effects. He was actually hanging from the building. I kind of hate Tom Cruise, but I was impressed.
https://youtu.be/kV4f7gnyX3c
This is a side by side look at Clash of the Titans 81 with supposed better effects, I'm not impressed. https://youtu.be/itYdtKY-9w4
shareWow, it looks so much worse. The movement looks too unnatural.
shareAgreed...I thought about trying to watch the remake again today...I have such a love for this movie, its hard to see the remake with all the special effects taking over the story.
shareSo they've just sped up the footage?
Whatever they've done I agree with SJ it looks worse and un-natural.
Still Clash of the Titans (81) is an awesome movie, I had it on VHS as a kid and watched it pretty much of repeat:
I only saw the remake once at the cinema and it was catastrophically bad.
Yes it is! One of the all time best movie illusions.
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Do you know what they used for the tornado in The Wizard of Oz?
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It was made of cloth and all done on a sound stage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_(1939_film)#Special_effects,_makeup_and_costumes
It was a muslin wind sock.
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🍆...I STOPPED READIN AFTER THE WORD EXPOSE.
shareProbably half the shots in all six "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" movies involved "scale doubles".
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d9/7c/a2/d97ca2608666a64d475d5b752b2bae7f.jpg
That is, very short or very tall people, dressed like the leading actors, possibly wearing leading-actor masks as well as full makeup, wig, and costume, all to create the illusion of the hobbit or dwarf characters being much shorter than the human and elf characters.
I thought they mostly used force perspective.
shareThey did some of the time, but having listened to all the commentary tracks on the DVD too many times, I don't think there were many forced perscpective shots. Forced perspective shots can mean building sets or props to accomodate the shot, and it may have been cheaper to use the doubles as they were already on salary for the whole shoot.
I think there was a lot less of that in the awful "Hobbit" films, as they hired a short guy to play Bilbo and tall guys to play the dwarves, and 3/4 of the movies were just Bilbo and the dwarves.