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Roger hiding (hilarious!!) spoilers***

posted 11 years ago by targa9
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I actually laughed out loud when Roger had to hide in the poop! Ha ha! First, I wasn't sure it was an outhouse. Then we know, because he has to get in there. But he even has the aforethought to grab a toilet paper tube and put it in his mouth to breathe from! Ha ha! I couldn't believe it. Total submersion!

It was also funny to take off with the poor damn dog hanging from the forklift (I'm an animal lover, but this was a movie, the dog did attack him, and he was scared and running for his life).

But by far the funniest moment was when he fell off the cliff, and despite his great pain and hanging upside down, had to smear extra blood on his face and had to STARE DOWN Greve (who tried to reach for a pulse, but couldn't) to pretend he was dead! This lasted for a few minutes.
He couldn't even move his eyeball! Tremendous! Crafty Roger!

It was so funny and brilliant I couldn't believe it! Ha ha

What a great movie!

[–] truthpaste 11 years ago

Not sure what it says about me that my favourite cinematic moment of 2013 so far is of a Norwegian covered in human excrement making an escape in a tractor with a dog impaled on the front.

[–] mikainen 11 years ago

That farmer must have had pretty bad diarrhea for a long time to have such wet excrement that you can dive in. :)

[–] koga_ninja_Jubei 11 years ago

Also, that would have to be like a lifetime supply of it down there. Pretty sure that if you just kept crapping into a hole in the ground it would eventually decompose, not stay as 1000's of gallons of fresh poo as it builds up over the years.

"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth"

[–] kmd11 10 years ago

Bet that's a sentence you never thought you'd write.

[–] TheRapDude 11 years ago

It sounds even more unbelievable when you find out the actor actually had to do that scene with real poo. It's a wonder how he didn't throw up.

Fear not the darkness, but welcome its embrace.

[–] MovieMusings 10 years ago

I don't believe, for one moment, that they used real feces for this scene, any more than I'd believe they used real human blood for all the bloody scenes.

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[–] TheRapDude 10 years ago

I'm just judging based upon what the actor himself and the director said.

Fear not the darkness, but welcome its embrace.

[–] MovieMusings 10 years ago

Hey, I found out that, in the scene where Roger shaves his head, he cut himself, and some of the blood on his head in that and subsequent scenes is actually his.

So, hey, in fact they did "use real blood," in a manner of speaking; not deliberately, and not copiously (Lotte's pool on the floor or Ove's spray onto the window curtains was special effects of course), but it did happen.

Having said that, I read an interview with the director Morten Tyldum that, while not explicitly declaring what the material was either way, did indicate the set was as staged as any in a movie:

DS: How did you shoot the outhouse scene and what was that day like on the set?

MT: [Laughs] You have no idea how many different opinions people have about how *beep* should look. There was nothing that we discussed more. “No, it should be lighter, it should be darker, it should be thicker.” Ugh, we had so many discussions about that. Then once we finally found the look, we shot the scene very casually. Aksel went under for like a minute or two breathing for a toilet paper role. His whole body was submerged in this special tank and he just did it like, “yeah whatever.” We were so worried about it and then he jumped in, did it in an hour and we moved on like it was a normal scene. After all that discussion and concern, it was a bit anticlimactic.

- See more at: http://dorkshelf.com/2012/05/01/interview-headhunters-director-morten-tyldum/#sthash.nOZCotpl.dpuf

http://dorkshelf.com/2012/05/01/interview-headhunters-director-morten- tyldum/

I interpret that to focus on the fact of his being fully bodily submerged; "once we finally found the look" suggests they experimented with formulations before they got a look they were looking for; and "this special tank" was clearly not just some real outhouse - would they build a special tank and then use real feces, rather than just find a real outhouse with real feces in it?

Not to mention the health concerns, bacterial exposure, etc. Bleck, I shudder to think of it.

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I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd.

[–] prplayer 7 years ago

that sequence was just brilliant stuff

so many movies, so little time