RobertoOrtiz
01-31-2004, 05:42 PM
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"During a recent visit to the "set" of Sky Captain, CountingDown was shown more than half an hour of dazzling footage unlike anything ever seen on a movie screen. Stars Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Giovanni Ribisi fully interact with stylish noir drawings depicting a 1939 New York City. A blimp (humorously dubbed the "Hindenberg III") docks alongside the Empire State Building and unloads passengers onto the roof; giant metallic robots fly through the sky like fighter jets, then walk down the street zapping buildings with laser eye beams; the Sky Captain (Law) and reporter Polly Perkins (Paltrow) fly a fighter plane in a dizzying sequence as they try to escape robotic planes that flap their wings like birds; squiggly-armed robots, monsters, and miniaturized animals are also glimpsed at various workstations throughout the tour. "
"During the screening certain scenes are run uncompleted, showing just how simple the brothers Conran (Kevin is the Production Designer) have made it to shoot a blockbuster movie. Footage is shown of Paltrow and Law walking across an empty soundstage between some potted plants that look like they were purchased at the Home Depot - soon, there will be a lush tropical forest there. In another scene, Sky Captain lands his plane on the dirt of a floating platform: all we can see is Law looking at the computer blueprint of what seems to be a tremendously ambitious set. One animator giddily shows off a program that required them to shoot footage of an elephant, then manually impose a skeleton on that footage, and now allows them to move the animal in any way they desire; another has a clay sculpting program that lets him mold his subject with the wave of a wand; another shows off an explosion in a complicated shot and laughs: "We went to the mountains and set off some fireworks, and just filmed it." Imagine a whole world of kids filming fireworks and potted plants, then loading them into the Macs in their garages, and you begin to have an idea of where the next Scorsese might be coming from."
>>link<< (http://www.countingdown.com/features?feature_id=3344565)
-R
"During a recent visit to the "set" of Sky Captain, CountingDown was shown more than half an hour of dazzling footage unlike anything ever seen on a movie screen. Stars Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Giovanni Ribisi fully interact with stylish noir drawings depicting a 1939 New York City. A blimp (humorously dubbed the "Hindenberg III") docks alongside the Empire State Building and unloads passengers onto the roof; giant metallic robots fly through the sky like fighter jets, then walk down the street zapping buildings with laser eye beams; the Sky Captain (Law) and reporter Polly Perkins (Paltrow) fly a fighter plane in a dizzying sequence as they try to escape robotic planes that flap their wings like birds; squiggly-armed robots, monsters, and miniaturized animals are also glimpsed at various workstations throughout the tour. "
"During the screening certain scenes are run uncompleted, showing just how simple the brothers Conran (Kevin is the Production Designer) have made it to shoot a blockbuster movie. Footage is shown of Paltrow and Law walking across an empty soundstage between some potted plants that look like they were purchased at the Home Depot - soon, there will be a lush tropical forest there. In another scene, Sky Captain lands his plane on the dirt of a floating platform: all we can see is Law looking at the computer blueprint of what seems to be a tremendously ambitious set. One animator giddily shows off a program that required them to shoot footage of an elephant, then manually impose a skeleton on that footage, and now allows them to move the animal in any way they desire; another has a clay sculpting program that lets him mold his subject with the wave of a wand; another shows off an explosion in a complicated shot and laughs: "We went to the mountains and set off some fireworks, and just filmed it." Imagine a whole world of kids filming fireworks and potted plants, then loading them into the Macs in their garages, and you begin to have an idea of where the next Scorsese might be coming from."
>>link<< (http://www.countingdown.com/features?feature_id=3344565)
-R