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I saw the rerelease of Alien in theaters about a month ago, and they had an interview between the new director and Ridley Scott before the movie. Needless to say, I'm super excited.
I’m still amazed, from that interview, when Ridley Scott mentions that he used his kids in certain shots in the alien planet to make the ship look more massive than it was. Lots of other people in the theater were mind blown from that piece of trivia.
I love finding out neat behind-the-scenes stuff like that.
They did something similar for Titanic where they didn't hire any extras taller than 5'7" in order to make the set they used to model the Titanic look larger.
Casablanca, too. The ending was shot in a studio with a small model of an aeroplane. They used dwarf actors to play the people in the background loading it up so that it looked full size.
I heard they also did this in the Lord of the Rings to make the humans look bigger.
That and perspective distortion tricks
And CG too? couple shots I think
Yeah but those don't involve any apple boxes. Except a few Mac Pro's, I guess.
Also TIL there was actually a Titanic 2 lol
It's actually worse than you're imagining...
Here's 36 minutes worth of extra stuff for anyone who's interested.
Thank you!!!! This or Aliens is my all time favorite movie.
Thanks!
Great link!!!!