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die another day live die tomorrow whatever that tom cruise movie is called there's no way to know
um break billboard pete wants to know back in september ridley scott made mention of a possible
new alien movie as someone well versed in both the technical and aesthetic side of filmmaking
what key effects in the film do you think can't be replicated in any other way than practical effects
set bursts ch sets chest bursters vehicles etc and there's no hard and fast rules man i mean
ridley scott had the practical effects team for alien covenant make up thousands and thousands of
gallons of blood of fake blood because he wanted fake blood spraying everywhere but on the departed
again i'm bringing up the departure because i saw it recently but the departed has no practical
blood effects in it apparently all the shooting blood is is is is cg and and scorsese said
that it changed his life to be able to do it that way it was so much easier and he got so much more
done and he was able to concentrate on the meat of the scene rather than the practical effects
so two directors with two totally different approaches i will say it's not about i think
what the i think the difference between practical effects and cg effects the biggest difference
is not necessarily the effect on us the audience and as cg improves consistently and as physics
models improve etc and as animators get better new generations of animators are coming up
as they get better that that line between practical effects and cg is going to get
narrower and narrower and narrower in terms of what the final product is to us the audience
it's just going to get better cg is going to get better and better and better
but the real difference between those two is the effect on the actors in the movie
and back to what i was originally saying about the way ridley scott so
presciently built the sets for alien it's his second movie his second movie he's in his 40s
i believe he's already had a major career as an important commercial director and now he's
decided to make movies and this in his second movie it's crazy to me how brilliant it is
um he creates this environment for his actors and then he asks them to improvise and what he ends up
with is this blue collar space trucker movie um which is like ten little indians right it's like
an agatha christie novel there's one by one there they go it's it's a [ __ ] it's a gothic word um
but those actors being in those locations and being surrounded by the worlds that we're
witnessing i think means what we're getting as an audience is better i know that so many of the
actors in the star wars franchise for the prequels became exhausted of acting against blue screen
it became really just really rough on them because while their profession is one of
pretend they like help they like looking at the world they're supposed to be walking around in
and i totally get that um so i don't i mean there are still some things that practical effects can
do that are so much better than cg right now um simply because of the unexpected consequences
of like flowing water exploding frames blood spattering and things like that but again that
line gets smaller and smaller and smaller but the real thing is what happens to the actors on set so
i think you're still going to have plenty of directors who have the clout and the budgets
to be able to do that and then you're going to have young upstart directors who can do everything
using just their phone and i'm totally sure that's going to happen and be amazing um and then they'll
get budgets that are bigger and they're going to want to build practical sets yeah i mean
the thing that the crew of the mandalorian keeps on talking about in all the behind the
scenes footage about the volume and about how they film the mandalorian is how great
it is to be able to marry all the benefits you can get from expanding a set with cg
and doing that practically on set so the actors are actually handling stuff and feel like they're
in the environment that you are pretending that they are in so i i you know i think this dichotomy
that we are constantly talking about culturally between practical effects and cg effects
um i think that that drawing a line between those is is a a it's a false qualifier uh i
think that the way production is going to go is much more along the lines of mandalorian and i
don't think it's too long before we have some kid in the ukraine or china um buying a bunch of cheap
oled televisions and putting them in their bedroom and creating a completely virtual
uh virtual room i'm sure that if it hasn't already happened and i'm sure someone's already sending
me a link it's gonna happen in the next six months and that that's freaking awesome yeah um
ultimately the reason we're here to talk about alien is because it's a great story and it's a
story with characters that like we identify with and that draw us in and it feels uh the fear feels
scary because we are drawn into that narrative and that's a lovely escape and escape is is hard won
these days um so yeah you know i think a lot of us have gone over the last year in the lockdown a lot
of us have gone back to some of the franchises that built us that that helped make our brains
the way they are to find solace and secor in those stories and escape and escape it is so important
to have a place to go to visit even if it's a scary place just to take yourself out of the
current reality um because occasionally the current reality can be rough on us yeah
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don't have to watch any of the others uh those two are two of my favorite movies of all time um
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