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david_a posted:Hey, it's better than him being Spanish-but-really-Egyptian and asking a Frenchman playing a Scotsman what haggis is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1uIIY2glaY I listened to the director commentary for HfRO and McTiernan wanted better shots for stuff like that and the underwater sub/missile effects but was limited by time/money. :/
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Sleeveless posted:Yeah, saying it was shot on an iPhone is a little misleading because while they do use the phone as the camera it's still using professional lenses and rigs for everything else. It still saves a bunch of money, though.
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bows1 posted:So did they lose funding? Is that why they are on HBO Basically, yes.
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2 fat 4 my lambo posted:SFX question: How did they film this without actually throwing a kid out of a moving van It's a stuntsperson and the stuntsperson is probably female to be shorter and of slighter build. But not even like, all that short, if you look at the legs.
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T2 has some good shots of stuntpeople in place of Edward Furlong, a 12 year old boy playing a 10 year old. Watch the bike chase down the LA river and you'll see a few shots of a 10 year old boy on a dirt bike who appears to have aged 30 years in some shots.
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2 fat 4 my lambo posted:SFX question: How did they film this without actually throwing a kid out of a moving van This shot in particular seems to have been filmed at two different focal lengths, which can cause that "this looks wrong, but I can't put my finger on why" feeling.
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For serious though, why can we see the trees through Alec Baldwin's hair?
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Snak posted:For serious though, why can we see the trees through Alec Baldwin's hair? Matting was still pretty poor well into the 80's and early 90's. Since they didn't go in an literally trace around every hair in his head to make the matte "perfect", they use a fuzzy boundary that followed the general contours of his head, so you end up with areas where the matte is transparent.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Matting was still pretty poor well into the 80's and early 90's. Since they didn't go in an literally trace around every hair in his head to make the matte "perfect", they use a fuzzy boundary that followed the general contours of his head, so you end up with areas where the matte is transparent. Yeah but, it's not like a little but on the edge of his hair. It's up to his face. A sloppy matte could still look decent if it was close.
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Yeah, but there are a lot of sloppy mattes out there. Some are so bad they're a hairs breadth away from being partially invisible ghost Obi-Wan quality. In this case it may have even been a (poor) creative decision. The matte artist thinking "well, you could see the background partially through strands of hair, so I'll just fudge it and make the whole hair area transparent".
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I just watched Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Who played the singer of Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head on the Gong Show? I didn't know the character's name so the credits were of no help unless I missed him there an on imdb.
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Superrodan posted:I just watched Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Who played the singer of Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head on the Gong Show? I didn't know the character's name so the credits were of no help unless I missed him there an on imdb. No one. That was a clip from the actual Gong Show. You only ever see a vague blurry version of the singer in the background in the movie, some no-name extra miming along with the clip, while the actual old clip is playing on the playback monitors.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:No one. That was a clip from the actual Gong Show. You only ever see a vague blurry version of the singer in the background in the movie, some no-name extra miming along with the clip, while the actual old clip is playing on the playback monitors. Thanks! I thought it looked kind of like Jason Mewes in a wig and was possibly the weirdest cameo ever. Also, I just went back to watch it and they said the name of the guy really clearly, "Mick Donnelly" so I probably could have googled it myself. Sorry about that. Superrodan fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jan 24, 2016 |
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piratepilates posted:T2 has some good shots of stuntpeople in place of Edward Furlong, a 12 year old boy playing a 10 year old. Wow, he was only 12? That dude had some chops (although it's been a while since I've seen it and my be getting confused with his American History X performance)
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xcore posted:Wow, he was only 12? That dude had some chops (although it's been a while since I've seen it and my be getting confused with his American History X performance) Well turns out it was 13 through 14, not 12, but still pretty young.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Yeah, but there are a lot of sloppy mattes out there. Some are so bad they're a hairs breadth away from being partially invisible ghost Obi-Wan quality. Actually, the transparency artifact is from reducing the opacity of the foreground element to make matte seams less visible. This technique was used during the Hoth scenes in The Empire Strikes Back. You'd occasionally see through the X-wing dashboards at high contrast areas (black on foreground, white on background). This is also a problem in a few shots in the Toontown scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit where you can see through Eddie Valiant's jacket. If the shots had been lit properly, it wouldn't be anywhere near as obvious.
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What are some colored actors that could have been played in Gods of Egypt but didn't because Hollywood is full of idiots? I already know I am going to have this conversation with my cinephile friend and I'd like to be prepared to his likely answer.
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paradoxGentleman posted:What are some colored actors that could have been played in Gods of Egypt but didn't because Hollywood is full of idiots? I already know I am going to have this conversation with my cinephile friend and I'd like to be prepared to his likely answer. This is a pretty funny question
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Well Chadwick Boseman is the in the film and he's African American and Egypt is in Africa so that's close enough, right??? Edit: serious answer, Omar Sharif is the only actor who is actually Egyptian who I could name off the top of my head and he died last year.
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paradoxGentleman posted:What are some colored actors that could have been played in Gods of Egypt but didn't because Hollywood is full of idiots? I already know I am going to have this conversation with my cinephile friend and I'd like to be prepared to his likely answer.
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I mean we all came from Africa originally, aren't we all truly coloured??
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TychoCelchuuu posted:You may not realize this but there are like ten billion actors in Los Angeles desperate for work, many of them "colored," as you put it. They all work as waiters or w hatever but they'd literally drop everything for a chance to star in a blockbuster. Uh, when you put it like this it sounds rather obvious. Thank you. (Is colored not the preferred nomenclature? I wanted to include both African American and all the various brown-skinned ethnicities.)
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TychoCelchuuu posted:You may not realize this but there are like ten billion actors in Los Angeles desperate for work, many of them "colored," as you put it. Unfortunately for those guys in LA the movie was filmed in Australia, which is why it's choc-a-block full of Australian actors like Bruce Spence and Geoffrey Rush and Bryan Brown in minor roles. "Strewth, welcome to Ancient Egypt ya flamin' galah! Chuck another scarab beetle on the barbie!" paradoxGentleman posted:Uh, when you put it like this it sounds rather obvious. Thank you. (Is colored not the preferred nomenclature? I wanted to include both African American and all the various brown-skinned ethnicities.) Also the Egyptian Coptic ethnicity is a pretty small subsection of the 'colored' category. Arabic/Middle Eastern would probably be the next closest ethnicity but I'm sure there's people who would argue that point. Racial background in Ancient Egypt is actually a pretty complicated topic, we've had the discussion elsewhere in CD before. We've got a fair few expat Egyptians here in Australia but I have no idea how many of them are working as actors up in NSW ...
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Also the Egyptian Coptic ethnicity is a pretty small subsection of the 'colored' category. Arabic/Middle Eastern would probably be the next closest ethnicity but I'm sure there's people who would argue that point. I don't suppose you could point me to where that discussion has taken place? I'd like to learn a bit more about it and wouldn't want to bother everyone by retreading old ground.
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The Egyptians were pretty metropolitan and multi-ethnic, but they saw themselves as neither Levantine, nor "Libyan" or "Nubian". They were also invaded by anyone and everyone who could sail or cross the Sahara at one point or another.
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paradoxGentleman posted:What are some colored actors that could have been played in Gods of Egypt but didn't because Hollywood is full of idiots? I already know I am going to have this conversation with my cinephile friend and I'd like to be prepared to his likely answer. Always.
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Slugworth posted:The answer is always Cliff Curtis. Has there ever been a movie where Ben Kingsley and Cliff Curtis played father and son? There should be.
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paradoxGentleman posted:I don't suppose you could point me to where that discussion has taken place? I'd like to learn a bit more about it and wouldn't want to bother everyone by retreading old ground. I had a good hard look but I couldn't find it.  Slugworth posted:The answer is always Cliff Curtis. Since they were filming in Australia it would have even been pretty much local for him. Fans of Cliff should check out this interview about his childhood if they haven't already seen it, but be warned that it's pretty loving depressing in places. He had a really fuckin' lovely life when he was a kid.
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paradoxGentleman posted:Uh, when you put it like this it sounds rather obvious. Thank you. (Is colored not the preferred nomenclature? I wanted to include both African American and all the various brown-skinned ethnicities.) "People of color"
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People who ain't white.
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(Alexander) Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi should get more work in general.
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"Colored people" lmao, also there's tons of awesome actors who aren't white in Hollywood but Black People Are Bad For Business Especially In China so we never see any of them, otherwise that wouldn't even be a question you'd have to ask.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:"Colored people" lmao, also there's tons of awesome actors who aren't white in Hollywood but Black People Are Bad For Business Especially In China so we never see any of them, otherwise that wouldn't even be a question you'd have to ask. Yeah, I'm sure the dastardly Chinese are the reason why we've never had a lot of black leads.
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computer parts posted:Yeah, I'm sure the dastardly Chinese are the reason why we've never had a lot of black leads.
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SubG posted:Check out the mainland Chinese poster for The Force Awakens (2015).  Oh, right. Is it racist to call Chinese people for the most part racist?
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