Stupid Spending - Something Completely Different!
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 12:54 pm
For the past couple weeks many Lakewoodites have been working and going Downtown to watch the filming of "Fast and Furious 8." The 8th installment on the block buster movie series about hoodlums, fast cars, police, fast cars, military, explosions and fast vars exploding. Which makes watching it great fun, and those working it all say, "Slow pace, but good people to work for and beats ditch digging." I have been watching many films made, as it amazes me to see it at work, then see it on the screen. Those of us that watched them filming the first "Marvel's The Avengers" and then saw the movie I am sure were blown away with what we saw, but how they used it in the movie. At the same time, the way big movie productions burn through money is sick. Studios spent over $50 million on a Superman movie that was never made, just checking colors and scripts! Special thank you to the production crew, that said as long as they are not "action shots" I can post.
So back to "Fast and Furious 8" which is mostly about fast cars, crashing and blowing up stuff.
Basically taking this Lamborghini Gallardo, valued at about $200,000
and turning it into this. This would be the 7th one destroyed in the movie.
Two weeks ago they were filming one of the big scenes, and Deb and I stumbled on them cleaning it up, but the short story is...
A car coming out of every opening in the garage that is circled, falling into the street below, and exploding. Over 50 cars being destroyed in this scene.
Pretty wild right? No, now it gets crazy! That scene was shoot, edited and placed into an ad for the movie, in a week, then yesterday afternoon, I was coming back from Dodd's Camera, and stumbled upon this.
The film crew, was recreating that scene as perfectly as it could be recreated. The photo at the bottom was one of 7 photos, that crews used working all day and through the night to get all of the exact same wrecked cars back into the same exact positions as the end of the scene, to shoot this morning. I counted a crew of about 100 union film workers, placed car after car, at the same angles, the same pile, the same wheels hanging, to match the first footage perfectly.
Because of the Cavs, and Indians, the crews had promised to open the roads every evening for traffic. So the entire scene had to be marked, recorded and assembled perfectly. I was thinking that CGI had replaced all real sets, but at the "Fast and Furious 8" Real cars, real actors, real union crews and unreal cubic dollars!
They were also filming the last two scenes last night and this morning, but I was unable to go.
Amazing!
.
So back to "Fast and Furious 8" which is mostly about fast cars, crashing and blowing up stuff.
Basically taking this Lamborghini Gallardo, valued at about $200,000
and turning it into this. This would be the 7th one destroyed in the movie.
Two weeks ago they were filming one of the big scenes, and Deb and I stumbled on them cleaning it up, but the short story is...
A car coming out of every opening in the garage that is circled, falling into the street below, and exploding. Over 50 cars being destroyed in this scene.
Pretty wild right? No, now it gets crazy! That scene was shoot, edited and placed into an ad for the movie, in a week, then yesterday afternoon, I was coming back from Dodd's Camera, and stumbled upon this.
The film crew, was recreating that scene as perfectly as it could be recreated. The photo at the bottom was one of 7 photos, that crews used working all day and through the night to get all of the exact same wrecked cars back into the same exact positions as the end of the scene, to shoot this morning. I counted a crew of about 100 union film workers, placed car after car, at the same angles, the same pile, the same wheels hanging, to match the first footage perfectly.
Because of the Cavs, and Indians, the crews had promised to open the roads every evening for traffic. So the entire scene had to be marked, recorded and assembled perfectly. I was thinking that CGI had replaced all real sets, but at the "Fast and Furious 8" Real cars, real actors, real union crews and unreal cubic dollars!
They were also filming the last two scenes last night and this morning, but I was unable to go.
Amazing!
.
