Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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My grandmother used to discarded paper, reach into her bag, and wad the old paper around a gift and hand it to us.
Depression Era frugalness.
I used to save money by using a newspaper (remember those?) page. Wrap the gift, then with a festive marker circle letters in the headlines with a line connecting them to spell out their name
Depression Era frugalness.
I used to save money by using a newspaper (remember those?) page. Wrap the gift, then with a festive marker circle letters in the headlines with a line connecting them to spell out their name
That's a real problem when you see the same extra with the same costume walking three or four times in the shot...I've been trained from my early years to multi-task while watching a movie. I've seen the same car coming and going (with the same driver) in the shot! What does it take to get that extra a hat (hidden on the passenger seat) as to not be obvious when passing by the second time? Any change of wardrobe for any of those extras coming and going again and again? Coat? Hat? Glasses? Other props easily picked-up?
If you watch CHiPs they reused a lot of driving footage. I remember seeing the same Opel GT driving in multiple car chases on the highway.
My favorite recently, and I forget the show, but the kid shook the box and said "LEGO! Alright!" and I was like "No, you did not get a LEGO set. I heard nothing."
At least put the sound effect in when they pick up the empty box!Yes, and they re-used many of the same cars when they filmed new scenes.
'CHiPs' had a '69 Pontiac GTO with ramps mounted on the rearend. They built it for other cars to hit it from behind and launch up over it. (Man, I would want a strong rollcage in that thing . . . ) The launching cars were totaled but they kept using the same ramp car.
It started out green with a black vinyl top. After a while they started repainting it other colors.
I never get the obvious empty coffee cups, it's so obvious there is nothing in them. Yet so easy to fix, put some water in it, they don't really need to have coffee in them, just some weight. Seriously it looks so stupid when they throw their hands around with the empty coffee cup. I saw a parody of people doing that somewhere recently on the web.
It's probably about avoiding the mess on the set. Even water spills need some cleanup time.
joberg
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Same with empty suitcases. The body doesn't react the same way when you lift a heavy object vs. a light object.
joberg
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I would go with colored resin...at least there would be some "weight" in those cup. Don't fill it to the brim, of course, as to facilitate the actor "drinking" from them
They did fire in the sky a few miles from here so all the extras were people I knew. They said the big return-home banquet scene was real food. They would all plate up and then hear, "cut" and all the food went in the trash, over and over. By the time the scene was finalized, several people in the extras crowd can be seen with full plates BEFORE food gets doled out. If I am remembering this correctly, it was supposed to double as the paid lunch for the crew so many people were seriously hungry during this process.
Saw a movie recently that had a main character about 8 months pregnant. The character was but the actress wasn't- just had a belly bump prop under the clothes. The thing is that with a child the whole center of gravity is thrown off and normal walking, sitting, picking things up is totally different. Lucille Ball carried her child with the first on screen pregnancy on 'I Love Lucy' and I remember her trying to do normal tasks around the apartment with the off center balance...
Why did we see so many people in the corridors of a ship that large?? It’s simple. “Wandering the Corridors” is an actual duty assignment on a starship.
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The skid marks thing shows up a lot in Hollywood. Any kind of aggressive driving shot that doesn't wreck a car, they probably did multiple takes of it.
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