unbroken,digital,alfonso,cuarn 'Children Of Men' - impossible one-shot car scene (spoiler)

'Children Of Men' - impossible one-shot car scene (spoiler)

posted by bamdrew

2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 6210 views

tags: unbroken, digital, alfonso, cuarn

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!!!Pretty big spoiler in here if you havn't seen the movie!!!

Here is one of the cool, long, one-shot scenes that help make Children of Men an amazingly immersing film. (NSFW for f-bomb)

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I did not even realize that was one long shot. And boooh for the ball CGI.

written by pragmatick | 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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I don't think this is CGI. I think this is just one brilliant example of hand-held camera work, probably with a very small camera.

written by k8_fan | 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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I loved this movie. The DVD is coming out this week here in Portugal and I'm gonna get it.

written by EMPIRE | 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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One of last year's best movies. I've seen the explanation on how they did this scene, and I'm still amazed at how it went so smoothly and transparently.

written by Sylvester_Ink

| 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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when the moterbike flips over its a cg model you can tell by the animatoin. i thought the film seting was realy cool but the story of the film is fairly boring. its the kind of film that would work alot better as a game.

written by westy

| 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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Such an awesome film, it really does show a possible future without the whole generic clothing thing and the usual mistakes that are made about filming the *future*

written by theneb | 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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Very clever scene, especially because it very well avoids making a passive viewer aware of the intense complexity of the shot. Another scene in the movie follows the protagonist while he runs through a bombed out city, through a broken-down bus, and back out around the city while being shot at... also as one long following-shot.

The only way I could first think this shot was possible was through a trick ceiling in the van, through which a camera can be manned, and swept around the group... but then its handed out to the side of the road...

The dirtbike is not the smoothest cg ever; looks a tad unnatural, should have just had him fall over and crash into the road embankment.

written by bamdrew

| 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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Man, nowadays everyone assumes that everything is cg. The dirtbike certainly doesn't look like cg to me, it just looks rigged so that it would fly around like that. People should realize that cg is expensive stuff, especially if you're going to make it detailed enough to look real. (And the motorcycle in this scene certainly looks detailed enough.) Why waste good budget money on cg when you can rig the cycle to do its thing for much less. I mean, effects experts have been doing it for years and we've all scene stuff a LOT more radical than this that wasn't cg. (Exploding helicopters, crashing trains, demolished buildings.) Granted those things are a bit more expensive, but if they can be done in a convincing manner without cg, then a simple motorcycle flip would be no issue.

The ping-pong ball is a bit more likely, as that trick doesn't look really easy to do, and the cg wouldn't be all that expensive, but again, why even spend money at all? It's just as likely that the actors were able to do it with another effects method, or perhaps even naturally.

Of course, I could be wrong about this, as I don't know the details behind the making of the movie . . .

written by Sylvester_Ink

| 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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ImmersIVE.

ImmersIVE.

Also, things are not addicting, they are addictIVE.

/pet peeve

written by budzos

| 2 years 7 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Note the orange one of the characters is eating at the beginning of the scene - that's a classic sign in films that something bad is about to happen (Godfather, et al).

written by cardboardhut | 2 years 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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*dead

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| 2 years 3 months ago | CH

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written by siftbot

| 2 years 3 months ago | CH

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Awarding rasch187 with one Power Point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

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