The shots of the train standing at the station are real. But I would swear some of the scenes where the train is shown passing by is a model rather than the real thing. There's one in particular where the train crosses a bridge over a river and it looks like a toy. Anyone else notice that?
shareYes. Few years ago I saw a piece of "making of" this film , and I rememeber that certanly there are several scenes made using a model , a toy train.
Thanks. I thought so. I guess they didn't catch how unrealistic it looked when they edited the film.
shareI think it adds to the film. I thought it looked pretty cool.
shareIt's kinda like the Godawful toy "boat" getting tossed around at the end of the "Cape Fear" remake, lol.
shareI can't say I noticed this myself, but I'm not going to argue with those who think it was. But I'm not sure why the makers would go to the trouble of creating a "toy" when it would be easy enough to get distance and scenic shots of the real thing.
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Plus the fact that her image (or maybe it was the images behind her) were shaking unnaturally. Obvious late 80s green-screen cheapness (the film was released in '90 but shot in '89) gave it an amateur look. Plus where's the impact of her being pounded by the tunnel opening for a little extra oomph? She just kind of vanishes.
shareYeah toy train as well as toy gun in some scenes. Much cheaper to make a set than do actual night shoots of the train actually running, just not done very well. The scaling is wrong for a start, and the sound is like a train set.
Just before the helicopter crashes there is a scene of a close up of a toy helicopter spinning around!
it was purposely to avoid violent brutal scene with a pretty woman ,as always in hollywood... it was not a techinique issue.. even if an indonisia film could have done better than that...
shareI thought some of the train traveling shots had a kind of "miniature" look to them but I didn't think it was too awful. I figured it was less expensive to shoot a model than to pay for train, crew, fuel and film company to go to the desired location(s) for a few brief cutaway shots of the exterior of the train.
shareWhy is it that some people like to paraphrase the trivia section like they've had some original and perceptive thought?
Perhaps the OP just wants to reach out for some sense of community.
Possibly didn't read the trivia. But something like this would only be noticed (and perhaps cared about) by a model train person unless it looked very fake, which it didn;t here.
sharenot to argue, but I spotted this instantly on TV in a shot where a creek bed is in the foreground with the train passing by in broad daylight. It was just apparent that the item moving was lightweight and small, and not a thundering mass. Ironically the foreground creek looked great.
Full disclosure though, I saw this film in theaters upon its release and remembered it quite well, but have no memory of spotting the toys trains on a much larger screen. Only years later on television. Maybe I blinked, maybe I forgot.
I don't think it was a terrible effect. Just kinda like spotting a boom in a shot.
It wasn't in the trivia when I wrote that.
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