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  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited October 2023 Posts: 16,419
    ringfire211 wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Whoa, love that green screen shot of Bond holding Alec off the cradle. Never seen it before.
    Is that some kind of green support arm that’s coming out of the wall and going into Sean Bean’s back, presumably to hold him vertically upside down? Whoah, I hope he didn’t have to hang like that upside down for too long! Blood rushing to your head like that - can’t be good.

    No, they're doing it horizontally. Pierce is standing on his tippy toes. Sean is laying flat on his back. Presumably there's a plank or bit of fibreglass shaped to his back for him to lay on.

    Same here (with thanks to Thunderballs as ever):

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    (That one seems to be flipped for some reason!)

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  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Ah, so I was right then! Very cool way to execute that, never would've thought of it myself. Gonna keep it in mind when I rewatch this next month.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited October 2023 Posts: 16,419
    It's a lovely bit of lateral thinking which I wouldn't have even considered when watching it, but it makes sense for doing it safely. You can see the track on the floor that I guess they wheel Sean's trolley along for when he 'falls'.
  • ringfire211ringfire211
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    mtm wrote: »
    ringfire211 wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Whoa, love that green screen shot of Bond holding Alec off the cradle. Never seen it before.
    Is that some kind of green support arm that’s coming out of the wall and going into Sean Bean’s back, presumably to hold him vertically upside down? Whoah, I hope he didn’t have to hang like that upside down for too long! Blood rushing to your head like that - can’t be good.

    No, they're doing it horizontally. Pierce is standing on his tippy toes. Sean is laying flat on his back. Presumably there's a plank or bit of fibreglass shaped to his back for him to lay on.

    Same here (with thanks to Thunderballs as ever):

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    (That one seems to be flipped for some reason!)

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    So if it’s all horizontal did they rotate that footage somehow to make it look vertical on the screen?
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited October 2023 Posts: 16,419
    I think it's the same way up in the film, isn't it? They just put a picture of the ground on the far wall and your mind reads it as the camera pointing down whereas it's actually just shooting horizontally. If you hung a carpet on the wall next to you and put a picture frame on the floor and took a photo, it would look like you're taking a photo from the ceiling.

    Those must've been some heavy duty ladders not to be bending under the actors! But it does make it much safer to do, plus not as tiring for them to repeat for different takes.

    Yeah there you go: the camera is just pointing horizontally, it's the background which is the wrong way around.

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    The funny thing is if you look at the "No, for me" reverse close up on Pierce, from the look of the telescope behind him he's actually holding Alec pretty much horizontally! :D
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    mtm wrote: »
    I think it's the same way up in the film, isn't it? They just put a picture of the ground on the far wall and your mind reads it as the camera pointing down whereas it's actually just shooting horizontally.
    Those must've been some heavy duty ladders not to be bending under the actors! But it does make it much safer to do, plus not as tiring for them to repeat for different takes.

    This is the case. And as you said, Bean falls "down" by merely falling backward, as the bit he's attached to just moves on a track to give the appearance of him falling to the ground. Masterful stuff.
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
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  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Insanely impressive for a mid-90s film. I love it.
  • DEKE_RIVERSDEKE_RIVERS
    edited October 2023 Posts: 1,368
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Insanely impressive for a mid-90s film. I love it.

    Not at all. They looked bad back then.
  • 007ClassicBondFan007ClassicBondFan
    Posts: 2,270
    DEKE_RIVERS wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Insanely impressive for a mid-90s film. I love it.

    Not at all. They looked bad back then.

    To you they did. That effect still holds up for me, and obviously for plenty of others.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    *I apologise for the following images. They may cause some members heartrates to rise*

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  • DEKE_RIVERSDEKE_RIVERS
    Posts: 1,368
    007ClassicBondFan wrote: »
    DEKE_RIVERS wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Insanely impressive for a mid-90s film. I love it.

    Not at all. They looked bad back then.

    To you they did. That effect still holds up for me, and obviously for plenty of others.

    It doesn't matter now. It's an old movie.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,281
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Insanely impressive for a mid-90s film. I love it.

    Yes, it really is. Great to see how it was done. It's certainly a lot better than the old back or front projection method.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    Sadly we come to the end of the line for GoldenEye.
    Tomorrow we move onto the 18th film, Tomorrow Never Dies.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Insanely impressive for a mid-90s film. I love it.

    Yes, it really is. Great to see how it was done. It's certainly a lot better than the old back or front projection method.

    It truly is movie magic. I will be watching Goldeneye some time this weekend, the first time since my last complete Bond Marathon that must be going on three or four years(?).

    Seeing the BTS footage shows a production team at the top of their game. Very impressive and I'm always in awe of these great and talented people...
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    @Benny, you genius. What a great way to wrap GE (and yes, heart rates will definitely rise with those images).
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    QBranch wrote: »
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    Love it!
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    So glad that Q did indeed get to enjoy his lunch.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    Time for us to move onto the second outing for Pierce Brosnan. The eighteenth film in the EON series of James Bond films...

    Tomorrow Never Dies

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  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Pierce's best Bond movie. And one of the top ten ever made IMHO.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
    edited October 2023 Posts: 4,341
    That's an odd pose... is she trying to steal Bond's car keys?
  • DEKE_RIVERSDEKE_RIVERS
    Posts: 1,368
    zebrafish wrote: »
    That's an odd pose... is she trying to steal Bond's car keys?

    yeah, the keys ;)
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
    Posts: 8,217
    ringfire211 wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    ringfire211 wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Whoa, love that green screen shot of Bond holding Alec off the cradle. Never seen it before.
    Is that some kind of green support arm that’s coming out of the wall and going into Sean Bean’s back, presumably to hold him vertically upside down? Whoah, I hope he didn’t have to hang like that upside down for too long! Blood rushing to your head like that - can’t be good.

    No, they're doing it horizontally. Pierce is standing on his tippy toes. Sean is laying flat on his back. Presumably there's a plank or bit of fibreglass shaped to his back for him to lay on.

    Same here (with thanks to Thunderballs as ever):

    31b808_b0e9ef4e0cc34aff9d86ab6021263cd0~mv2.jpg
    (That one seems to be flipped for some reason!)

    31b808_0d78c77929c1491db7d411245ca59c3c~mv2.jpg
    So if it’s all horizontal did they rotate that footage somehow to make it look vertical on the screen?

    Not unlike…

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  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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  • UnivexUnivex
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    chrisisall wrote: »
    Pierce's best Bond movie. And one of the top ten ever made IMHO.

    And probably my go-to feel-good Bond film, always.
  • DEKE_RIVERSDEKE_RIVERS
    edited October 2023 Posts: 1,368
    Yes, It's Brosnan's best movie.

    And the best "third Dalton movie we've never had".
  • UnivexUnivex
    Posts: 6,709
    Well, GE will always be GE, and Pierce's best one, IMO. And one of the 10 best Bond films. But I do get where you're coming from. And I've probably watched TND more times than I care to confess.

    BTW, is it safe to assume we have high quality BTS pictures from the early films, and only low quality, small pics from Pierce's. That's a shame.
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