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Nice! Must feel special to have been right next to an actual set!
There will no doubt be more articles covering the stunts, so I'll make sure to post anything here. :-)
Yeah, it seems Tom has a lot of love for dear James. Excited to see how they approach that sequence in particular.
Yeah I was amazed; they didn't mind you wandering right up to it. The quality of the thing was amazing: you'd never dream it wasn't real.
Very cool! I wonder what the reason for jumping off a ramp on a mountain would be...? Needing to access somewhere far away from the mountain but not able to take a plane over?
Weirdly I think he's looking more Great Escape there considering the surroundings! :)
Interesting! When it comes to sets, I sometimes wonder how real they look up close, as opposed to on screen where they can have done all kinds of digital adjustments to make it look the way they want it.
Who knows? It will no doubt look great on screen though. :-D
I see they have to measure their fever daily. Must be hard to work with a fever. And they all have one?
Strange wording by NRK.
And Cruise will then go to the control cabin and operate the train himself - which he spent the entire lockdown period to learn how to become a train conductor. ;-)
I guess so, yeah. I hope they keep the digital tinkering to a minimum though: I thought the CG storm really spoilt the parachute jump in the last one.
If Tom has any trouble and somehow rides off the sides of that ramp though (very unlikely I know) he's really dead..!
Hur hur...It says 'I FARTA' :>
(I am a child)
I agree - my least favourite sequence from that film. I know the lightning was a key part of the scene but visually it took a lot away from it. It made a potentially very cool, very real feeling sequence feel very fake. Always makes me wonder why they bothered going through all that effort.
Most of the stunts in the MI films have a generous amount of CGI applied, it's just rarely that noticeable. That Paris jump was actually done in the Arabian desert, the entire city and sky were computer-generated.
Even the famous plane-hanging scene from Rogue Nation had to have the harness painted out of every shot, so Tom's torso and the plane door are both mostly CG.
Fart means speed in Norwegian :D
You can translate "I FARTA" to: "On the move" or similar.
Even though at some points, most of the shots in a stunt sequence may be computer-generated, doing it for real provides extremely valuable reference material for the CG artists. A good rule of thumb is, the more footage they have that was shot on the set, the better the CG looks.
Compare that sequence to something like the ending fight in Black Panther, which had basically no reference material shot, and the difference is rather stark.
I agree that the lighting did take me out of the scene, though.
Yeah, I completely understand that for sure. But I'm certain that they could have done regular parachute jumps instead of halo jumps and nobody would be any the wiser.
Hell, Cavill didn't even do a halo jump because of insurance reasons - which means they digitally stitched shots together or put his face on a stuntman for the scene.
I have a feeling that those kinds of expensive and crazy stunts are allowed, not only to keep Tom Cruise happy but also to use as marketing tools.
Both MI and the new Top Gun have hundreds of CG shots, but only market the practical elements because that's a somewhat unique selling point in our world of CGI-heavy blockbusters.
Of course, these movies are just as CGI heavy as the rest, and even a movie like Tenet has hundreds of CG shots in it, but that's not what grabs headlines.
Yeah the reverse shot of him jumping from the plane looks amazing, but then it becomes a CG fest and you sort of no longer believe he's doing a real jump any more (maybe that's not quite fair- I don't think anyone has been able to fake skydiving yet. The attempt in QoS was probably the best I've seen and that still looks poor)
And that's if you ignore the fact they're doing a HALO jump to get into Paris, which is just silly. Just go to the airport you weirdos.
What is really fun about that scene is the bit where the camera follows Tom to walk to the open back of the plane and the black bars at the top and bottom slowly widen out to bring it to IMAX format :)
Yeah I never understand why they say they were doing HALO jumps..? A HALO jump looks no different from a normal jump onscreen, especially if you're editing the landing off.
Would bet good money on this kind of thing being Cruise's enticement for doing these films. He seems like an adrenaline junkie and having a studio foot the bill for all his expensive stunts must be very satisfying.
I also loved the IMAX aspect ratio shift, it normally irritates me in most films but they found a clever way to integrate it.
Oh I think his motivation is making movies: he seems to genuinely love them and wants to bring an incredible experience to the audience.
Oh of course, I just meant that being allowed to do crazy stunts might be part of what keeps drawing him to keep making more of these specific films and not, say, American Made 2.
(If you haven't seen American Made btw, I highly recommend it. Great flick.)