Cocaine Scene

Usually scenes with those kind of effects don't sit well with me, but this effect worked so well, I was impressed with the creativity as well.

no way they are snorting speed, do you know how much it stings to snort speed?
makes your eyes water and feels like someone sticking a hot poker up ya nose



- who am i? im a spoke on a wheel, so was he and so are you.

Here's how they achieved this effect:

1. They slowed down the speed of the camera so that fewer frames were photographed than normal, disrupting the fluidity of the standard film image so it looked "choppy," while at the same time having the actors speak and move at half-speed. With the two techniques combined, they got a choppy, frenetic image that still played at "normal" speed when viewed.

2. The actors later recorded their dialogue inside a recording booth at normal speed. This looped dialogue was then played over the "sped-up" film so that the two synced up perfectly. The final result was a choppy, sped-up image with characters speaking at normal speed--none of the "chipmunk" voices that come from a sped-up audio track.

Using such a technique successfully must have taken an enormous amount of time to get it right, with a lot of care taken in editing the film and dialogue to balance the two properly.

"You can keep the gum."