In The Social Network, I was utterly covinced they'd found twins to play the Winkelvii. I didn't know Armie Hammer before the film and I was like "wow, those guys did an excellent job. Must be tough to find twins that talented and handsome. Bravo, casting director."
Nope. One guy, and some incredibly clever editing, staging, and CGI sweetening to make it work. I was far more impressed by this piece of cinema trickery than any dozens of CGI clusterfuckfests I've seen since then. The amount of thought that must have gone into maintaining this illusion without breaking the story's pace or flow is staggering.
No love from the Oscars though.
Its been said that the Oscars make much more sense if you replace "Best" with "Most". Thats really what they award. Most Special Effects. Most Acting. Most Editing. Subtler performers like Gary Oldman or John Goodman who can disappear into a character are ignored for the actor who can cry the hardest and put on the best accent. And apparently its far more impressive to watch some headache inducing swarm of polygons talk to a bored looking Megan Fox than it is to make it genuinely hard to believe that Armie Hammer isn't secretly twins.
Any other subtle pieces of filmmaking you're sad didn't get recognized?
Submitted September 22, 2017 at 10:50AM by Wazula42 http://ift.tt/2xXEkhp
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