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Originally Posted by Zeke
I guess I'm in the belief that if there is a stunt to be shot, the stunt should be done for real.
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One of the things I appreciate when watching older films is the creativity and skills used to generate the special effects. Long before green screens, motion capture and CGI, effects were created by model makers and technicians who figured out how to make things happen, and who then built props and entire scenes (often in miniature) to help tell the story. Glass matte painting and backdrops were also used to create backgrounds that would've been difficult and/or expensive to actually build, but these were all done by hand too.
The "how'd-they-do-that" factor is now completely absent from modern filmmaking. Yes, today's special effects can be truly dazzling, but rather than being the product of teams of skilled artisans designing effects and building them by hand, it's all now done by a handful of programmers sitting at sophisticated workstations. Not nearly as interesting to me as it once was...
