In other words, everyone has seen a lot of movies, and the plot is also very familiar, but there are not many people who know the process of behind-the-scenes production!
For example, the following classic movies, as a fan, you may have seen them all, but you may not know the original... This is how the shots were taken!
Terminator: Judgment Day: There was no motion capture technology at that time, and in order to complete the T-1000 liquid robot passing through the iron fence, the crew drew lines all over the actor Robert Patrick's body, using a method that now seems very complicated.
Father of aliens H. R. Gig, on the set of his Alien, picked up a face-hugging bug egg for the camera.
He took a picture of his greatest work, and when he filmed the first Alien (1979), there were no computer CG effects, and the "protagonist" of the film, the Alien, was played by a Nirlia who thought he was 2 meters 1 tall.
During the filming of "Alien 3", the crew once wanted to use a Whippet to play the Runner-Messenger Alien whose host was a dog or a cow, and specially made a set of props for this purpose:
But after trying, I found that even with the terrible props on, the dog walked up or too funny and cute, and finally gave up...
In the boss 'Star Trek', the shaking spaceship is actually a shaking effect added in the later stage, and the actor's left and right shake are all pretended...
Gail Gadot is making leg molds for the boots in wonder woman, and for a movie with a lot of action scenes, the props must be very precise and will use different materials to make boots that are suitable for different scenes.
In the Star Wars canon trilogy, actor Kenny Baker, who plays the robot R2-D2. In the movie, when R2-D2 extends his leg, he plays it, while the other scenes are remote control props.
And most of Kenny Baker's R2-D2 scenes were done with Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), Kenny Baker said in the interview: "He needs to be an hour ahead of me to get dressed, and I only need 5 minutes to get into R2." Group photo of the pair of friends on and off the set:
Designing such a prop that allows the actors to flexibly control it is not achieved overnight, but has been tested in many versions. For example, while testing an early version of this R2-D2, Kenny Baker accidentally fell...
On the set of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the BB-8 robot in the movie is so realistic because we see real props operated by puppeteers, not special effects, and the later stages are only used to do subtraction.
Similarly, the robot TERAS in Interstellar, you see not a CG effect, but a movable "puppet" weighing up to 90 kilograms.
Members of the Guardians of the Galaxy in the interval of filming, in order to face the eyes of other actors in the right position, the actor of the tree Groot, had to wear a high "hat"...
James Gunn, the director of "Guardians of the Galaxy", is directing Stan Lee's cameo role in "Doctor Strange", and considering the age and time issues, the old man has made cameo scenes in several Marvel movies in a few days.
On the set of "Avengers: Infinity War", in order to play the height difference between Thanos and the childhood Kamora, during the filming of this scene, actor Josh Brolin had to stand on the table and act...
Gary Oldman's special effects makeup process in the movie Hannibal... The makeup and corpse props in this film are very realistic because tom Savini, the film's special effects makeup artist, was once a vietnam war photographer and had seen a lot of real things...
Director Francis Coppola and actor Martin Sheen on the set of Apocalypse Now, in pursuit of realism, hired extras to play "heads" in some scenes...
In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Coffin of Souls, StrandSkarsgaard, who is wearing makeup, plays Bill Turner as the only real-life makeup character on the Flying Dutchman, and everyone else is cGI special effects.
Marlon Brando's jaw prosthesis in The Godfather, Marlon Brando stuffed his mouth with cotton wool during auditions, wanted to make the corleone character look like a bulldog, and in the actual shooting, he wore a prosthesis made by a dentist.
American drama "Breaking Bad", Xiao Fan has an amazing scene of drug-taking hallucinations, which was actually filmed like this, I thought it was a special effect...
Unlike most of today's film and television productions, the sci-fi American drama "The Mandalorian" is filmed in the form of a green screen, and the background is a huge LED circular screen, which is generated by the Unreal 4 engine. In this way, not only can the photographer shoot as much as he wants, but to a certain extent, the actor can also perform immersively, and no longer have to play against the air...
"Terminator: Judgment Day", "Nude Terminator" Schwarzenegger on the set, actually wearing a pair of fashionable Hawaiian shorts...
Pierce Brosnan and Sean Bing filmed the death of Agent 006 in 007: GoldenEye, and the tower we see in the movie is actually horizontal...
On the set of "Blade Out of the Sheath", the window shadow we see in the character's glasses is actually a set of lighting equipment...
In many places you don't notice, there are actually hidden lighting and set designs by the crew.
Paul Bettany tore off the "face" of the illusion after completing the filming scene of "Avengers: Infinity War".
On the set of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", in order to be consistent with the head shape, Garfield and his stuntman actually wear another mask under the mask of Spider-Man.
On the set of "The Matrix 4: Matrix Reborn", triniti took the shot of Neo racing in this way, for the safety of the actors, the real picture is not as cool as you think...
In "Face Change", according to the face-changing surgical props made by Nicholas Cage and John Travolta, the picture is too realistic, so it has to be mosaiced...
Behind the scenes of "Venom", there is no special effect to watch Eddie and the villain fight scene... It's really Bengbu live hahahahaha
Movies are indeed an art of dream-making...