![]() ![]() ![]() Thus, 8 times over the team had to comp 180, 2K resolution shots in just 10 days. “It was not so much the shot count that impacted us,” Breakspear explained, “but rather it’s the audience screening process involved in making a comedy that does.” The Producers of the film ended up requiring 8 test screenings, each one 10 days apart with some 180 shots to be temp comped. In the film, the lead actors had to be seen skating which led to a massive amount of face replacement. Mark Breakspear, VFX supervisor of CIS Vancouver (formerly Rainmaker), who worked with Ben Stiller in his capacity as producer on Blades of Glory also worked on his earlier effects film Night at the Museum which was directed by Shawn Levy.īreakspear discusses in this week’s podcast how Blades of Glory really showed CIS how fundamentally different the pipeline needs to be for visual effects in comedies. As stretched as things get in this movie, there is still a basic level of reality.” But it’s also about Hollywood and how it works on such an extreme level. It was definitely influenced by a lot of real war movies, because I love that genre. “At the end of the day, you need to invest in the reality of the situation and care about these people or it doesn’t work. “The challenge was that it wasn’t just an action movie and it wasn’t a send-up,” Stiller explained. With this concept in mind, Stiller was adamant that the film not become a spoof. It would take the trio several years until their work eventually evolved into a shooting script, “about an incredibly bloated, top-heavy Hollywood production with a bunch of actors who didn’t do the work, didn’t do the research, barely learned their lines, and who are more obsessed with how they’re all going to come off in a war movie than with the actual subject matter,” stated Theroux when the film premiered. Stiller first teamed up with fellow actor Justin Theroux( John Adams(HBO), Amercian Psycho (2000)) and then screenwriter Etan Cohen ( Idiocracy (2006)). That sort of self-important, self-involved thing seemed funny to me I just couldn’t figure out a way to make that into a movie.” During interviews they would say, ‘This boot camp was the most intense thing I have ever experienced in my entire life and we really bonded as a unit and as a group.'” Stiller continues, “It was funny to me that actors were talking about this incredibly intense experience when in reality it was nothing like being a soldier and going to war. “I had a really small part in Steven Spielberg’s ‘Empire of the Sun.’ At that time, all my actor friends were doing Vietnam films like ‘Platoon’ and ‘Hamburger Hill’ and going off to fake boot camps for two weeks. “The inspiration for ‘Tropic Thunder’ came about around 1987,” recalled Stiller recently. After ballooning costs and out of control egos threaten to shut down the production, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast deep into the jungles of Southeast Asia for what he calls “increased realism.” Here the group inadvertently encounters some real bad guys. lead an ensemble cast in Tropic Thunder, an action comedy about a group of self-absorbed actors who set out to make the biggest war film ever. We follow up with more details and background in our online story.īen Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. In this week’s fxpodcast, Mark Breakspear of CIS (formerly Rainmaker) discusses how Blades of Glory showed his company how fundamentally different the pipeline needs to be for visual effects in comedies. ![]()
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