10 selections of SFX scenes from famous movies that were shot live-action rather than CG
With the development of video technology, many CGs are used in movies these days, and it has become possible to shoot powerful images that were impossible a decade ago. CG is used to create images that cannot be shot in live action, but it is also true that it looks like a lie when used frequently, and it is a scene of a movie that challenges shooting in live action without using CG. There are also many. Screen Rant has released 10 movie scenes that are so unrealistic that they can be mistaken for CG.
◆ 'The Dark Knight Rises (2012)'
The first is the beginning of 'The Dark Knight Rises,' the final of Batman's Dark Knight trilogy, where Bane kidnaps Dr. Pavel. In this powerful scene, the Bain crew chasing after Bain and Dr. Pavel on another plane jumps to the plane with a wire, and then the target plane is suspended by a wire and finally dropped. , Made only by live action.
A stuntman jumping off a real C-130.
It is also a live-action film where a stuntman jumps to another plane using a wire.
Airplanes suspended in the air are hung by helicopters.
The scene where only the fuselage of the airplane fell was also shot using an actual airplane.
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'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' takes the approach of gathering the staff involved in the original trilogy, reconstructing the world view of Star Wars, and then challenging new things, without using CG as much as possible. It has been taken in. Maz Kanata, a female pirate who appeared on the planet Takodana, was originally shot with a puppet, but motion capture technology was used to express natural movements ...
The lovely BB-8 uses the model that was actually made.
In the scene of the planet Jakku, a stick is attached to the body of the BB-8 model, and it is shot by pushing it from behind. It is said that this shooting method was taken because it is possible to reproduce natural movements by pushing it manually and rolling the body. The head is operated by the staff with a controller, and it seems that multiple models were produced for shooting.
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In 1994, when the speed starring Keanu Reeves was released, CG technology was not developed, and most of the scenes were shot in live action.
The setting that the bomb set on the bus explodes when the bus speed drops below 50 mph (about 80 km / h) has given the viewer an extreme sense of tension.
A series of breathtaking and jarring scenes, especially the scene where the bus made a big jump on the highway where the bus was interrupted by about 15m during construction.
This scene was shot in an unbelievably way of making a special bus for shooting and really jumping.
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In the 'Skyfall' of the '007' series, which features a well-crafted story, exhilarating action, a sexy but dangerous James Bond character, and the latest spy gadgets, Bond is the target at the beginning. A scene of fighting on a running train will appear.
This scene was shot with the actor tied to the actual train with a wire. It is said that you are using a real train to create realistic images, but shooting seems to be extremely dangerous.
You can check the actual shooting situation from the following movie.
◆ ' Jurassic Park (1993)'
Jurassic Park, a modern dinosaur revival, is directed by Steven Spielberg. Spielberg intended to use a shooting technique called go motion to shoot a moving model, but after seeing the CG of Tyrannosaurus made by ILM staff, he stopped shooting in go motion and adopted CG. did.
However, for close-up photography, animatronics, a photography technology that uses robots that imitate living things, is used instead of CG. Triceratops on the bed ...
T-REX, which showed the leading role, will be a live-action film using Animatronics instead of CG.
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In 'The Amazing Spider-Man', which is a reboot of the movie 'Spider-Man', there are many scenes made with full CG such as scenes where Spider-Man flies around New York at night with spider silk and underwater fighting scenes.
However, the scene where Spider-Man flies around under the elevated New York with a spider's thread was shot in live action by hanging the stuntman with a wire and swinging left and right.
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'127 Hours' is a movie about the spectacular story of mountaineer Aron Ralston who had an accident in a valley and survived by amputating his right arm.
In the scene where I cut my arm myself, I actually made a model of the arm and shot it. In most cases, CG is used for scenes such as amputation of limbs, but director Danny Boyle was particular about the reality until he created the model.
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A powerful scene where Kirk, Sulu, and Olson dive from a shuttle in outer space to stop the drill trying to destroy Vulcan.
This scene was shot with the actor suspended in a harness, but the situation that the actor fainted forced JJ Abrams to shoot in a different way.
Director JJ Abrams thought of a method of shooting with an actor standing on a large mirror. The sky in the background of the actor was reflected in the mirror, so when I took a picture of the mirror, I was able to take a picture that really looks like a dive from the sky.
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In the car chase where the Joker unfolded to catch Harvey Dent, there was a shocking scene where an oversized truck turned over from the head.
The shooting was done by blocking the city of Chicago and really turning the truck over. By using a real truck, a realistic image that cannot be expressed by CG was born.
◆ ' Inception (2010)'
At the end of the 10 famous SFX scenes from the famous movie, which was shot in live action instead of CG, is 'The Dark Knight Rises' and 'The Dark Knight', followed by 'Inception' directed by Christopher Nolan again. In the scene of fighting an enemy in a weightless hotel corridor, a huge rotating set was actually created and shot in live action.
You can find out more about shooting a huge spinning set in the article below.
In addition, director Christopher Nolan dared to shoot live-action scenes of trains running in the city while hitting cars. He made a model of the train, put it on the trailer, and ran the set. CG is used except for trains, but when you look at the video, you can't see the boundary between live-action and CG.
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