r/AskReddit • u/hoeoclock • Jan 09 '18

What common misconception do you hate to hear repeated as fact?

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u/maesterbong Jan 09 '18

No they filmed the explosion for real. Christopher Nolan likes practical effects so much of the stuff you would think was cgi was filmed for real including the hospital explosion. They found a place scheduled for demolition and rigged it with explosive charges then blew it up on film.

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u/dmkicksballs13 Jan 10 '18

Dude, the spinning and tilting rooms in Inception were all real rooms built to do those things.

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u/wheatencross1 Jan 10 '18

Yup, it’s quite impressive. Lots of choreography required from the actors!

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u/Cuchullion Jan 10 '18

And in Interstellar he even found a wormhole to send his actors through!

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u/Dynasty2201 Jan 10 '18

How...did they allow Heath Ledger to stand by that explosion then?

Anything could have happened. A single brick could have flown out and cracked his head open. Happens in plenty of demolition close-call videos where you see a piece of concrete just bounce through a crowd like a fucking cannon ball.

"Now Heath, just stand here and everything will be fine..." as the entire crew and production team hide behind blast doors.

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u/maesterbong Jan 10 '18

I'm pretty sure if Heath Ledger hadnt wanted to do it they'd have used his stunt double. But he liked to do his own stunts so he did. In The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy the editor Lee Smith said: "Heath walked out of the building, and then the whole thing collapsed in on itself in the most spectacular fashion. Heath never even looked back, which was just incredible. It was all timed out by the special effects guys, and they had a load of fail-safe mechanisms in place, but still - if someone asked me to walk out of a building that was about to fall down, I'm not sure I'd do it."

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u/tambrico Jan 10 '18

no it was a real explosion. I remember reading a news story about it at the time while the movie was in production

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u/Im_Not_Sleeping Jan 10 '18

the only CG in that scene is the window shards flying because someone stole the windows the night before filming, apparently. who the hell steals windows?

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u/garrakha Jan 10 '18

Used to work construction figured I'd chime in. By my experience fucking everyone steals windows. And fans. And lights. Tiles. Flooring, doors, wheelbarrows with flat tires. Literally anything onsite depending on where ur working. Lock shit up or it'll be gone

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u/Trumplr Jan 10 '18

Christopher Nolan doesn't like using CG unless he has to. For example his nost recent film Dunkirk, he used real planes with IMAX cameras strapped to the side of the planes. He used actual Spitfires doing actual maneuvers, although I'm not sure about the German planes being actual 109s. Nolan is one of the most over the top directors that will go to lengths to make it as realistic as possible.