Seriously? Would never have thought Mamma Mia needed greenscreen looooool
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Replying to @FSOBrooklyn @the_moviebob
That's what the post is about, more of the movie is fake than a typical Marvel movie The whole point of the movie is touring the gorgeous landscapes of Europe and they never physically went there
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Replying to @arthur_affect @FSOBrooklyn
And what SHOULD be the point of the post is that *everything* - not just blockbusters, not just superhero movies and DEFINITELY not just Marvel/Disney ones has been using A TON more green screen and digital retouching than 99% of the audience comprehends for the last 20+ years...
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...the minute we started scanning entire films into digital for editing and color-grading (TRIVIA: "O Brother Where Art Thou?" was the first - Michael Bay asked the Coens to teach him how to get the orange skin/blue sky look from that!) it's been one boundary-push...
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...after another for the entire business in that department: Backgrounds, windows, whole cities, height, facial blemishes, eyes and hair, signage on streets, weather, particle effects, taking inches and pounds off this or that actor... stuff you'll NEVER see revealed even...
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...Okay but why did they need to use CGI for confetti? Was Party City experiencing a shortage or something?
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Anything you can add in post saves time from the actual shoot, and that's saving you paying the hourly wage of dozens and dozens of people who have to be there
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheoGary and
It also saves you from, say, the take where you throw actual confetti and one of the leads gets a mouthful of it and ruins the take and everyone falls down laughing for ten minutes.
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Replying to @Eliot_Lefebvre @TheoGary and
Yeah I mean even seemingly little minor things add up to surprisingly enormous wastes of time when shooting a movie, and that waste of time gets multiplied by everyone's hourly rate
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Eliot_Lefebvre and
This is why when that Christian Bale rant went viral people were like "Okay he's being an asshole but you do at least kind of have to understand that ruining a take on a big movie set is a REALLY big deal"
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"And everyone's up at 3 am after having worked 18 hours that day etc"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Eliot_Lefebvre and
Unless of course it's the lead actors who ruin the take, in which case we're all supposed to laugh and be charmed. Yay classism.
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Replying to @TheoGary @Eliot_Lefebvre and
Yeah well the ugly nature of the business is his name on the movie is the reason half the people buy tickets
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