Perhaps for this reason, some directors are very persistent about "real shooting", because the pictures actually shot will never be out of date, and no matter how rich the details of computer special effects are, it is impossible to beat the real shooting! For example, the following classic movie pictures, if you haven't seen the tidbits, may think that they are all special effects …
In the first part of the sci-fi classic "The Matrix" series, I believe many people are impressed by the terrible scene of Agent Smith putting mechanical bugs in Neo's belly button …
However, the picture you see is not entirely special effects. The picture of the worm drilling into the human body is actually the real picture captured by the camera …
In order to achieve this effect, the props of the crew really made a mechanical device that looks like a rattlesnake tail and a realistic mannequin.
What's even more frightening is that this human prop can also simulate the way insects drill around and stir their stomachs …
In the movie "Iron Man 3", I believe the most impressive scene is definitely the thrilling rescue scene of Iron Man when Air Force One falls!
Although it is unreasonable, it was shot in real life … For example, this landing shot was a difficult action completed by the stuntman hanging Weiya, and later it was just worn away …
The process of falling off the plane is even more outrageous. These "passengers" are all members of the Red Bull Skydiving Team. This picture of adrenaline soaring was actually completed by jumping 1000 times from an altitude of nearly 4000 meters …
The broken chest scene in Alien is one of the most classic scenes in the history of science fiction movies in the eyes of many people, but it is not a small project to achieve such an effect in that era when there were no computer special effects!
To this end, the crew created a special-shaped prop that can be controlled manually, which can not only twist, but also make all kinds of complicated movements ... It is said that when filming this scene, the unsuspecting actors were scared ...
The prequel Alien: Contract, released on 20 17, had a broken back scene. Although the special effects technology was very mature at that time, Director Lao Lei chose to shoot it with props and makeup.
The alien cubs with broken backs are advanced puppets with more elaborate workmanship …
In the same series, Prometheus. David, the first bioroid who split up, had only one head left to talk. It's actually a prop, not a special effect.
Another engineer's head was blown to paste, which was also a proper real prop. Blinking and distorting painful expressions are achieved through internal electronic and mechanical devices.
Only a small part of the dinosaurs in the classic Jurassic Park are animated special effects, and most of them are actually props dinosaurs carefully produced by the crew.
For example, the Tyrannosaurus Rex inside is not an ordinary Tyrannosaurus Rex, but an evolved "mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex!
The snake door in the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is actually a real functional organ prop, and the pictures of the snake twisting and sliding are all true …
If you have a chance to visit Warner Studio in London, you can see this "magic" prop with your own eyes.
In the movie "Dangerous Speed" based on real events, there is a scene in which a runaway train runs out of control and crashes into another train, resulting in derailment.
The train derailed, overturned and exploded, but the effect was real-life shooting. The crew really destroyed a prop train, and later CGI was just used to cover up the device that overturned the train.
In Terminator: Judgment Day, the head of the liquid metal robot T- 1000 has a big transparent hole.
The effect we saw was not CG, after all, it was only in the 1980s, but a Canadian doll tailored according to actor robert patrick.
In fact, most of the injuries of T- 1000 in the movie are not CGI… for example, the body is split in two.
Actually, it is a layer of props worn by actor robert patrick.
Explosive head ...
In fact, it is also an elaborate model …
Even the effect of being shot in the body!
It is also achieved through clever props …
Of course, the final picture of T- 1000 ascension will definitely not use any special effects …
There is a spectacular explosion scene in Star Wars: Hansel, and the effect like this is realized through CGI, which is very expensive!
In the case of tight budget, the crew came up with a very clever method, which is to shoot the effect of underwater explosion with a high-speed camera. Although the background and the spaceship are fake, the explosion is indeed an explosion!
The last battle of the movie "007: golden eye" happened in a giant radio telescope hidden in a reservoir in Cuba. The picture of draining the lake looks very realistic!
That's because the crew really made a large-scale model according to the Arecibo telescope, the largest radio telescope in the world at that time, and then filled it with water …
There is also a scene in the movie where the arsenal is bombed. Siberia in the world of ice and snow is actually a model … the mountains in the background are actually painted …
In the past, filmmakers used to draw pictures to achieve difficult backgrounds, but with the development of science and technology, more advanced methods have emerged, such as the sky tower in the movie Lost in War, from which amazing high-altitude scenery can be seen.
At first glance, most people will think that this is almost certainly CGI. However, if you look at the behind-the-scenes tidbits, you will find that this is not the case, but it is realized by projecting several projectors onto a large panoramic LED screen.
In order to get the most realistic high-altitude scene, the production team of the crew climbed to the top of Hawaii volcano and filmed it with three high-resolution cameras for four days.
The abnormal gravity picture of Inception Chinese Bar is not a late special effect or a patchwork shot, but a room that can be tilted by the crew as a whole …
The bar in front can only be said to be a small test, and the corridor behind it is a fight. Nolan really gave us a big task!
In order to simulate the effect of gravity flip, the crew specially built a cylindrical roller with a diameter of 10 meter. The actors completed this amazing performance in this huge "roller" like hamsters!
Nolan is awesome, but all his performances are left by others ... This shooting technique was used in the early Hollywood movie The Royal Wedding, and its shooting time was 195 1 year ...
The scene of face-changing surgery in John Woo's film Face-changing/Off probably left many people with many childhood shadows, and all this was attributed to the famous Hollywood prop artist Kevin Yagher …
He and his team wrote two props models for the two leading actors, and even the hair was implanted one by one ... Look at this detail, it's scary to think about it!
Of course, to achieve the thrilling effect in the movie, it is necessary to make it move ... In order to show the real facial movements when people fall asleep under anesthesia, Kevin Yagher also implanted a remote control electronic device under the prop face, which can simulate facial small movements such as frowning, rolling their eyes and twitching ...
The reason why a film is called an industry requires not only the overall planning of the director, the story of the screenwriter, the acting skills of the actors, but also a lot of behind-the-scenes staff that you and I ignore …