If you look at the credits at the end the "birth baby" is Eric Ryan and there is a special thanks to the birth parents Lynea and Tim Ryan - I don't know who they are but that took guts to let them film that for a movie where many can see - We probably saw less than they show in an educational film but we still saw alot - I thought it was amazing
shareI saw that movie for the 1st time yesterday and I thought it looked pretty real. Yeah that did take some guts. I am expecting my 1st child in Nov. and I can't imagine ANYBODY taping such a private family moment. I guess everybody is different! But in any case it was pretty cool.
shareWhat's the logic here? You say the birth baby is "played by" Eric Ryan, and you specify that Eric's parent's were thanked. In other words they were not in the list of actors alongside Eric, and so they were not among the actors. How can you fail to see this?
The actor who played the mother-to-be is of course one of the six women named as Mexican villagers.
The birth scene was not real. The baby came out of a piece of rubber. Well made rubber, but still rubber. Easy to see.
I know, because I once saw a woman's private parts. ;-)
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I dont think it was real, they were just thanking the parents of the newborn "actor". I was shocked at how real it looked, I was there for my sisters two births of her children and this did look very real, I had to second guess my self but if you notice there was no umbilical cord on the baby, that was the only give away, plus birth is pretty messy....they did a good job though :).
Beth
..I was wondering...Why I'm so lucky. Why I should find you waiting for me to come along.
Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca (1942)
Check the trivia. Says its the first hollywood film to show explicit birthing of an actual baby.
sharethanks, cameron! it IS real. Richard Gere talked about it in Entertainment Weekly magazine shortly after the movie came out, in fact. Not to mention it is posted under trivia and has been printed elsewhere as well..
shareWhat about Sean Penn's The Indian Runner (1991)?
shareIt was most definitely a real birth. Robert Altman says so on the commentary. They brought a couple of set walls into an actual hospital and the doctor wore Richard Gere's clothes so it would match the rest of the shots of the actor playing the birth mother. Only the one shot of the actual baby coming out was real.
shareThere was an umbilical cord on the baby
shareYou can see the umbilical cord... but I'm thinking women in that culture in that tiny village probably don't shave their pubic hair. It's interesting that they had a live birth like that in a film. So now we have our youngest actor in history.
You know what they say... no one with missing teeth wears an Armani suit.
Well, even in parts of the world where women don't shave their pubic hair in everyday life, they're often requested to do so by medical staff before giving birth. Then again, in that village there wasn't a doctor, not counting the one brought by tornado, so I can't be sure...
shareThe pubic hair was most likely removed to show the entirety of the birth and let the audience know it was real. I have assisted on my share of births both vaginal and by c-section. This is a 100% live birth.
shareI clearly saw an umbilical cord connected to the baby there was some blood that gushed out. I dont think you can make a pregnancy look that realistic the baby was even white coming out that was a real baby coming out
sharei thought it was disgusting
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Yes, if you listen to the commentary, the director talks about the birth. And there is some blood and an umbilical cord (a very obvious one).
What cracks me up is that there are 5 or 6 mexican women there and they want a perfect stranger to deliver the baby. Yeah right! They don't need help.