Did that many people really not notice this before? One of the first things I said to myself while watching the original was "Why the HELL is so much of this green screen? Is this not set in the ACTUAL Greece? Are they going to fight The Kraken or something?" https://twitter.com/dilfsuhs/status/1244865828220092416 …
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Replying to @the_moviebob
I guess Marvel doesn’t have the budget to send people to Greece.
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Replying to @FSOBrooklyn @the_moviebob
It's not a Marvel movie, this is Mamma Mia
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Replying to @arthur_affect @the_moviebob
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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Speaking from experience: Things like confetti, dirt, smoke, sand, snow, dust, just random pieces of debris NEVER do exactly what you want them to do and they're a gigantic pain in the ass to set up more than once.
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Yeah as I understand it smoke is a very common thing to do with VFX, trying to make real smoke exactly as smokey as you want it to be but no smokier is a huge PITA
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Outside of something actually burning onscreen, you've very seldom seen 100% real "smoke clouds" onscreen. Smoke doesn't photograph well. Live-fires pre-CGI usually added chemicals to make smoke "smokier," dry ice fog got used in black and white...
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Yeah it's like how old school onscreen rain was milk
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