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Favorite practical effects: The war rig vs. the berm
#SERIOUSLY#WORLD BUILDING#YOU ARE SO USED#TO your vehicle being ON FIRE that you have built something into it#to use the excessive sand of your environment#to make it NO LONGer on fire#oh my god (via whisperingkuiperbelt)
There’s a lot of things I love about this, but one of them is that this movie is OK with fudging stuff to get the desired result. It’s completely obvious in this gif (and now when you go back to watch the movie) that the War Rig lines up with a nice neat line of fine sand to create this practical effect on location. However, the result looks fantastic onscreen so I just don’t care. (I can’t even imagine how lame this would look if they’d tried to do this CGI.)
It’s totally obvious that the rock riders in that scene are going off huge motocross jumps too. But, who cares? It is a ridiculously OTT world, we established that back when… not sure when, but at the very latest when the Doof showed up. And it’s used as backdrop for the actually cool stuff – the characters and their conflict – rather than trying to use the stunts to make the movie cool.
There is something in here about how to do world building and suspension of disbelief, but I can’t quite put it together yet.
Right…I think we will forgive a lot when we’re emotionally engaged–we either won’t notice or we won’t care. That’s the #1 thing. If a movie loses your emotional engagement, the illusion starts falling apart very quickly.
Also, I think MMFR really excels at setting a tone in its opening scenes and just committing to it all the way through. People are doing all kinds of bonkers stunts that you probably wouldn’t survive in real life…but we also see that they can get hurt and killed and captured and vehicles can crash and get destroyed. The movie does a really, really good job of blending a sense of genuine danger into all this kamikrazy action…which helps with the emotional engagement once again, because you are actually afraid for the characters.
BTW, I’m still in awe that the sand was a practical effect. I thought it was digitally enhanced with a particle simulation at least.
Co-signing all of the above.
Also, I’m not sure there wasn’t CGI added to the sand effect. The flames are surely CGI, and I think in the later stages of the effect the sort of “misty” sand blowing off and around the hood has a CGI feel to it. Those aren’t things I noticed when viewing the effect in real-time, but staring at the gifs over and over I start to get that feeling.
None of which is meant as criticism, or as backing away from the caption I originally used, of this being one of my favorite practical effects. I just think it’s likely that they took a really wonderful practical effect and made it that much better with some judicious, restrained enhancements.
Which is just, hah! Restrained! As if anything in connection with this movie could be characterized as exhibiting restraint! Except it does. From Doof to the Rock Rider jumps to this sand plume to Max’s transfusion of Furiosa, the over-the-top elements are rigidly bound by a requirement that they maintain a degree of believability, that they not stretch the viewer’s credulity beyond a certain point. As someone who becomes That Guy when movies go beyond that point (which so many movies do), I appreciated that. It may be the thing I love most about it.
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