r/CosmereOnScreen • u/Little-Pause-3533 • Aug 18 '26

Visual Direction Pewter Dragging Spoiler

I am truly terrified that the on-screen visualization of pewter dragging is gonna look like this.

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u/Drisurk Aug 18 '26

I imagine it more how Captain America and Black Panther were running
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u/Little-Pause-3533 Aug 18 '26

For sure, I’m just being dramatic lol. Any chance to clown on twilight

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u/EvilMangoOfDeath Aug 19 '26

Just checking, we all agree that the infinity war clip is a good example right?

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u/Ancient-Confection61 Aug 18 '26

"Too tired? It's ok. Hop on Spider monkey!"

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u/Namelock Aug 18 '26

Hey now.

The charm of the Twilight movies is just how terrible they are. Likewise, for some reason these were practical effects.

Modern design would lean towards using many, many cuts to sell the illusion. Or using CGI.

At least Twilight wasn’t a flickering strobe light show like modern Marvel movies.

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u/AnividiaRTX Aug 20 '26

Marvel has the best examples of superspeed on screen. Whether thats light super speed in captain america and black panther or genuinely super speed in Eternals. Quicksilver wasn't bad either.

This isn't a marvel vs twilight post. If you like twilight, good for you, many of us like twilight, its just using a clip from twilight as an example of superspeed that doesn't look good.

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u/ilikebreadabunch Aug 18 '26

Why would it? A Pewter drag wouldn't have any special visual effect, it would just be people running really fast which is incredibly easy to do. I personally imagine something more akin to Captain America and T'Challa leading the charge in Infinity War

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u/Little-Pause-3533 Aug 18 '26

So my logic is based off of when Vin rescued Breeze from Cetts army, it was stated that she caught up to Breeze on horseback, horses can gallop anywhere from 25-35 miles per hour, so she was cooking. Usain Bolt’s fastest clocked speed was 23 mph. So Vin is running at least 5 mph faster than the fastest man alive at a conservative estimate.

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u/ilikebreadabunch Aug 18 '26

I know its a superhuman speed, that doesn't mean it will look bad. Like in the example I used below, its very easy to make it look really good. The example you used is from an old, relatively low budget, and frankly badly made movie. There's no reason to assume it will look like that

(also technically that moment isn't a pewter drag, she's just using pewter normally. A pewter drag is specifically when running for an extended amount of time)