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Wow. So not so much stunt double for risky stuff as ‘I can’t be bothered to travel to Sheffield for half a day to film a couple of scenes, so please send a minnow on my behalf?’
Didn’t know that was a thing…
Do you pride yourself in identifying the real filming locations of cities/ countries standing in as somewhere else?
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Didn’t know that was a thing…
8ball
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Makes total sense cost-wise, rather than booking Clunes for an extra day when you can get someone in for a bunch of long shots.
I do find it interesting that they book “bum doubles” and stuff like that for people who look better than us mortals ever would, though.
I wonder whether it is driven by the actors’ insecurities or whether they have some shadowy group that decide some movie star’s bum is too small or whatever.
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Bus Honeygun
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Do like spotting whichever heritage railway a film maker has used. Don't think I'm too much of a twat about it - I realise for most viewers it's just a scene on a train - but it is interesting to see who goes the extra mile for authenticity in terms of location, era, rolling stock etc.
8ball
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Yeah, if you’re into a particular thing, obvious mistakes or just a lack of care can feel a bit insulting.
weltweit
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Captain Mainwaring of Dad's Army apparently had a clause in his contract that he never be required to show his naked legs. No idea why. Perhaps he was insecure about showing them somehow.
I suppose these days he might have had a legs double
Yossarian
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My favourite 'filming in Toronto' story is how the crew making Adventures in Babysitting threw trash all over an alleyway to make it look more like Chicago - they took a break for lunch and came back to find the city had cleaned it up.
8ball
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Captain Mainwaring of Dad's Army apparently had a clause in his contract that he never be required to show his naked legs. No idea why. Perhaps he was insecure about showing them somehow.
I suppose these days he might have had a legs double
Maybe a condition or something. You wonder when Scarlett Johansson has a bum double, though. Unless maybe they were using the stunt double for some of those long shots and the stunt double is a different shape and it doesn’t work for the angle.
Also, they’re just people and it’s pretty common for people to have insecurities that no one else can see.
I do think they should do something about the “open secret” of steroid use, though, when it comes to some male parts. Am sure some destructive things are happening with female performers too. There’s only so far you can go to justify things with “well, they’re paid a lot of money”.
That’s aside from the general social effect of impossible body images being thrown about the place.
Not Hollywood, but I read an interview with the Trivago girl where she said she could identify because she also wished she looked like the Trivago girl.
Anyway… went a bit off-topic there..
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littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I don't try to notice them. Ties are a bad one. Just don't have people wearing ties. And fags. Well, they don't have people smoking much any more at least.
If it's a good film, I don't mind too much but continuity errors can break suspension of disbelief, so I wish I didn't notice them.
weltweit
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That is how I view it also, if it catches my attention it can spoil the film for me.
ouirdeaux
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I love that story, but first heard it in the 70s, before that film was made. So either it was a different film or it's a myth. The fact that there was no specific title mentioned in my version makes me think the latter is more likely, alas.
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Obviously it’s still a long way off for lower budget productions, but I guess that will soon be unnecessary anyway. The 360-degree screen thingy that Disney premiered with The Mandalorian was the first instance to my eye of a genuinely convincing CGI background device.
Most of us with a basic knowledge of cinema’s practices and a working eyesight can still tell if an outdoor scene is really filmed outdoors on location or a green screen job, even with mega big budget Marvel films. But Mando was the very first time ime that we passed the threshold when you can no longer tell if an outdoor scene was genuinely filmed on location (in Wadi Rum in the case of all Star Wars films of the Disney era), or on an outdoor California set with background scenes showing Wadi Rum scenes.
8ball
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There were also the “sand screens” they used when filming Dune.
I’m not familiar with The Mandalorian.
8ball
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Don’t say that to the tourist board.
weltweit
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On the "suspension of disbelief" aspect. When I have seen a great film in the cinema, I have usually forgotten what time it is, what day of the week it is, I have suspended disbelief completely and really got into the film.
So when the film comes to an end I need a bit of time to get myself back into my own reality!
It really bugs me when the people I am with get up immediately on the last moment and want to exit the cinema, I definitely need a good few minutes to allow my own reality to re-emerge.
I wonder if they were so immersed in the movie as I was, how they can just get up and walk away before even the first of the credits have rolled?
8ball
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On the "suspension of disbelief" aspect. When I have seen a great film in the cinema, I have usually forgotten what time it is, what day of the week it is, I have suspended disbelief completely and really got into the film.
So when the film comes to an end I need a bit of time to get myself back into my own reality!
It really bugs me when the people I am with get up immediately on the last moment and want to exit the cinema, I definitely need a good few minutes to allow my own reality to re-emerge.
I wonder if they were so immersed in the movie as I was, how they can just get up and walk away before even the first of the credits have rolled?
I get a surreal feeling when I leave and it’s still daytime. Especially with something set largely at night.
littlebabyjesus
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Totally. Also, if it was a good film, I usually don't want to say anything about it until we're completely out of the cinema, and I definitely don't want to hear other people talking about it.On the "suspension of disbelief" aspect. When I have seen a great film in the cinema, I have usually forgotten what time it is, what day of the week it is, I have suspended disbelief completely and really got into the film.
So when the film comes to an end I need a bit of time to get myself back into my own reality!
It really bugs me when the people I am with get up immediately on the last moment and want to exit the cinema, I definitely need a good few minutes to allow my own reality to re-emerge.
I wonder if they were so immersed in the movie as I was, how they can just get up and walk away before even the first of the credits have rolled?
Yes, we can discuss it. Happy to. Would like to. Outside. And maybe only after a few minutes. I might not really know what I think of it until the next day.
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
Grimsby aka The Brothers Grimsby was filmed in Tilbury because Grimsby wasn’t grim enough.
Similarly the interiors of Hullraisers were filmed in Leeds.
Similarly the interiors of Hullraisers were filmed in Leeds.
scifisam
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Captain Mainwaring of Dad's Army apparently had a clause in his contract that he never be required to show his naked legs. No idea why. Perhaps he was insecure about showing them somehow.
I suppose these days he might have had a legs double
One of my best friends was Hattie Jacques' legs. For an advert using old clips of Hatttie Jacques, but they needed legs that looked like they could belong to her, and there were no clips of that, so my friend spent a day having a camera thrust under the table while water was splashed on her legs.
I swear this is real and not a fever dream, honest.
There's a thing with continuity and it all boils down to what the audience is willing to forgive.
I must have watched Halloween three or four times before I discovered that one shot in the car it was day and the next it was night with nothing between. But it didn't spoil the film. And I guess we expect less from that era and in that genre. It never made the film worse though.
I must have watched Halloween three or four times before I discovered that one shot in the car it was day and the next it was night with nothing between. But it didn't spoil the film. And I guess we expect less from that era and in that genre. It never made the film worse though.
8ball
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IIRC (from an episode of HIGNFY many years ago in which the fact was mocked with delight), Croydon council used to promote central Croydon as ‘an excellent UK substitute for Nee York’
I went to Croydon once and it wasn’t that bad.
liquidindian
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I'm usually pretty bad at spotting this sort of thing but the end of The Batman is so obviously the Glasgow Necropolis it completely took me out of the film.
I've had a weird reverse version of this singing karaoke in the pub where Begbie starts a fight.
I've had a weird reverse version of this singing karaoke in the pub where Begbie starts a fight.
Plumdaff
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I do this. Canada spotting as previously mentioned, but also spotting obvious Liverpool or Black Country museum in Peaky Blinders etc. My city is a fairly regular stand in for all manner of places. It doesn't usually take me out of the story too much, but the portal between two parallel universes in His Dark Materials being a small patch of grass 15 minutes walk from my house was a bit discombobulating.
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Same here but Manhattan it ain’t
farmerbarleymow
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I thought Croydon was grim when I went. Soulless place.
gentlegreen
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In the old days, when I watched TV, I took an interest in the Bristol / SW locations of "Eddie Shoestring", and then "Casualty" because of the novelty of having anything like that near me- but we're talking pre-Internet so not in any great depth ...
I have just found myself done something vaguely similar with a couple of Youtube channels about life in France - trying to work out where the houses were located from the clues they accidentally gave - and I found one of them, but sadly the Google car never went into the hamlet itself ...
There's a Youtube channel where the presenter takes on challenges to locate places based on a photo ...
I have just found myself done something vaguely similar with a couple of Youtube channels about life in France - trying to work out where the houses were located from the clues they accidentally gave - and I found one of them, but sadly the Google car never went into the hamlet itself ...
There's a Youtube channel where the presenter takes on challenges to locate places based on a photo ...
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Saffy
Under the duvet..
Inspector Morse was filmed in St. Albans a few times and I can spot it a mile off. Actually loads of things have been filmed there.
A very specific one was an episode of The Inbetweeners which was filmed at a scout site in Kings Langley which I used to hang around in when I was a kid. I recognised the scout hut!
A very specific one was an episode of The Inbetweeners which was filmed at a scout site in Kings Langley which I used to hang around in when I was a kid. I recognised the scout hut!
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