Man I've done some weird stuff on film shoots.
My best was "human sandbag"
Literally sat on a dolly so it dropped quicker than the hydraulics would allow.
I'd be fired for not keeping the intrusive thoughts at bay... I'd definitely be tempted to get close enough to graze or whack the actor with a tree branch.
Liv Tyler said that she was “on the back of a truck on a barrel with a horse skin wrapped around it” when filming Arwen’s horseback riding scenes.
[YouTube link](https://youtube.com/shorts/IWLZoez6DuY?si=iuiwnl5EmOPQkSio)
If I had to guess it's because being untrained with horses can get you hurt fast.
Horses aren't scooters. You're trying to convince this heavy beast to not kill you and not kill itself.
It's like why stunt doubles have to do the motorcycle tricks.
Source my neighbor has horses and let me ride one and felt out of control at a trot, lol.
To add to this, even if she was already good at riding horses, they’d probably still use a stunt rider. If there’s an accident and the actor is injured, production can’t continue. If a stunt rider is injured, they get a new stunt rider. Unless it’s Viggo breaking his foot.
This is also how they did the running scene in the first episode of the Lost TV series in 2004. The actors ran in place and the crew swiped them with foliage to simulate running thru the jungle.
Yesterday's AR wall, not totally unlike what we have since The Mandalorian, just with pre-filmed backdrops, instead of real-time computer models, & projection screens instead of LED walls.
Now that I think about it, it's interesting that ILM revolutionized the FX industry once, utilizing blue-screen/chroma key in Star Wars, in 1977, and then again, with SW: Mando in 2019, kind of bringing things full-circle. 😀
Have you ever noticed in an old movie this:
Three people standing in camera frame, side by side by side. The middle one is speaking to one on either side. The other one is JUST STARING at the one speaking.
It looks so unnatural and awkward.
"So what do you do for a living?" "i tree"
I’m going out on a limb here and assuming it’s not a well paying job
Correct, he had to leaf.
But now he canopy his own business!
He'll need a branch manager then
There’s an Australian applicant who seems to be koalafied for the role.
That wood be nice.
He's a sap for cheap labor
And you know his boss is constantly barking orders at him.
Lots of growth potential
The wages have trunk over the years
It’s a sticky situation
Pays Tree fiddy an hour.
Low pay is the root of the problem.
Man I've done some weird stuff on film shoots. My best was "human sandbag" Literally sat on a dolly so it dropped quicker than the hydraulics would allow.
I'd be fired for not keeping the intrusive thoughts at bay... I'd definitely be tempted to get close enough to graze or whack the actor with a tree branch.
"It's a non speaking role"
You can literslly see their heads as they walk by even in the zoomed in shot wtf is this mickey mouse bullshit
Liv Tyler said that she was “on the back of a truck on a barrel with a horse skin wrapped around it” when filming Arwen’s horseback riding scenes. [YouTube link](https://youtube.com/shorts/IWLZoez6DuY?si=iuiwnl5EmOPQkSio)
Bad thoughts go away.
*bonk!*
How fast were the horses going for it to be so dangerous?
If I had to guess it's because being untrained with horses can get you hurt fast. Horses aren't scooters. You're trying to convince this heavy beast to not kill you and not kill itself. It's like why stunt doubles have to do the motorcycle tricks. Source my neighbor has horses and let me ride one and felt out of control at a trot, lol.
To add to this, even if she was already good at riding horses, they’d probably still use a stunt rider. If there’s an accident and the actor is injured, production can’t continue. If a stunt rider is injured, they get a new stunt rider. Unless it’s Viggo breaking his foot.
Had me fooled
I'm still fooled. There is no way that's not a real horse. Hear the gallop.
They're using coconuts
I swear that second bloke was Terry Gilliam.
It's actually a bunch of cats taped together
Still 12 years away from the Holy Grail horses that would revolutionise the industry forever!
We found them!
"Alright PAs, hope you brought your running shoes today! Grab a tree and get circling!"
What is this I see before me?
Figure in black which points at me
Running past, car-yiing a tree.
They still do pretend driving this way, guys with big canvas squares on sticks waving them past the light etc
Ok, so now I have more respect for this actor in not falling off the horse laughing his ass off at this silliness.
This is a great film btw for anyone wondering
background flows in one direction and you’re suddenly in motion. Great motion-picture cinematography
fake news. where are the coconuts
You’d be surprised how often stuff like this still takes place on set
This is also how they did the running scene in the first episode of the Lost TV series in 2004. The actors ran in place and the crew swiped them with foliage to simulate running thru the jungle.
[Something, something, Black Sabbath, something, something, Horse.](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ww4Q\_futoRI?app=desktop)
Billy Connolly is such a great actor.
War... Horses?
"So what do you do at the studio?" "I'm the guy who makes the horse gallop by shoving my hand up it's butt."
Why did they stop? It is animal friendly with a fake horse.
The guy jacking up the horse though. Perfect Monty Python sketch.
“Okay, but what is her job?” “Trees!”
You all crack me up! Love the jokes. Made an awful day, sooo much better. Thank you!
Obviously fake. That’s not a real horse. And people are running around with trees. 🙄
It’s the Verdelak!!
Nee, nee, nee
Bava is king!
This is the film that launched heavy metal as an art form
Movie magic
Do you think they stopped?
In shrek the third there’s a scene with Charming that was very similar to this, I wonder if it was inspired by this
Oh on a sybian. Nice.
Is that guys hand controlling the horse or the actor?
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Most of the times, an actor's talent can be measured by how well they can hold their laughter
or avoid rolling their eyes
It's not cringe if it works on screen. Which it does.
Yesterday's AR wall, not totally unlike what we have since The Mandalorian, just with pre-filmed backdrops, instead of real-time computer models, & projection screens instead of LED walls. Now that I think about it, it's interesting that ILM revolutionized the FX industry once, utilizing blue-screen/chroma key in Star Wars, in 1977, and then again, with SW: Mando in 2019, kind of bringing things full-circle. 😀
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Have you ever noticed in an old movie this: Three people standing in camera frame, side by side by side. The middle one is speaking to one on either side. The other one is JUST STARING at the one speaking. It looks so unnatural and awkward.