When it’s winter in the wasteland and you’re trying to stay warm via aerobics from circa 1985 while sand wranglers sweep around you.
Whaaaat :D :D
That’s so cool. So, it’s between takes, and they’re working on that section fairly early on in the fight when the Dag is about to toss the boltcutters to Furiosa. And I’m guessing the sweeping is to remove the tracks and divots from the previous take, and the exercise isn’t so much to keep warm for comfort (because from the shadows it looks like the sun is fairly high), but to keep everyone looking and sounding like they’re in the middle of a continuous fight (panting, sweating) rather than like they just took a five-minute break.
I’ve noticed before how the lances are swaying after the war boy’s body flies over the roof. Looking at that last gif, I think they achieved that by Tom Hardy moving the lances himself as the camera pushed in. So even in the midst of this huge CGI effects shot, they’re using practical effects to make the shot that much better.
I respectfully disagree :-) I’d bet money this is shot against a green screen, and the car is stationery but mounted on a special rig that wobbles to simulate the movement and that’s what is shaking Hardy and the props. (I can’t remember what they called it “sim trav” or some such, but John Seale mentions how well it worked for the shoot in his lecture to ACS Victoria a year ago.) Then there’s probably just a line on the lance they want to jerk back for the War Boy. They knew this was going to be part of the most composited section of the movie, so I think they’d make it easy for themselves.
Actually having found a BTS pic, I’m going to say I’m half right:
Yes green screen. But the lances/thundersticks are probably entirely CGI.
Interesting. So maybe the motion of Hardy’s right arm that I was focusing on in the final gif of the original set was a preplanned motion of him holding an imaginary lance that was going to be shaking with the passage of the body over the roof, and then they animated the lance motion to match. Or something. I guess the arm itself could be CGI, though at some point it stops making sense that they’d invest effort to replace elements they could just shoot directly.
I’ve noticed before how the lances are swaying after the war boy’s body flies over the roof. Looking at that last gif, I think they achieved that by Tom Hardy moving the lances himself as the camera pushed in. So even in the midst of this huge CGI effects shot, they’re using practical effects to make the shot that much better.
My first thought when I saw this was, “ooh, cool.” About 34 milliseconds later I thought, “what the actual fuck?”
There are things in the image that can’t be real. Like, the sea state looks really nasty, like it’s blowing at least 40 or 50 knots. But the ship’s sails appear to have much less wind in them; I’d say 10 to 15 knots, tops. And the ship has every possible sail set, which doesn’t make sense with a wind strength that could produce a sea like that.
The ship is right next to the shore (and is actually sailing in the direction of that shore). Who would take their ship into such a position? And under full sail? It doesn’t make sense.
Also, there’s no one visible on the ship. Not a single human figure visible anywhere. That’s when I realized, oh; it must be a model. A really frickin’ amazing model. It’s probably a miniature (but a really big one, like the “bigatures” they made for the LOTR movies). Because the detail is kind of incredible.
And that sea state: Again, kind of incredible. I’m obsessive about sailing movies (who’d have thought?) and getting a sea surface that looks that good, in the sense of realistically conveying the appearance of a storm, is really rare. Whoever did that (the sails/sea state mismatch notwithstanding) was a total badass.
So then I turned to Google image search, and pretty quickly found what I was looking for. This appears to be from the 2006 German movie Der Untergang der Pamir. It tells the story of the Pamir, the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn. In September of 1957 she sank in the Azores after being caught in Hurricane Carrie.
I don’t know if this is a production still taken during filming or an actual shot from the movie. Either way, it’s impressive.
