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Matrix Reloaded Filming Wants to Shut Sydney Down
ro_len writes "News.com.au is reporting the producers of the Matrix Realoaded are looking to shut down Sydney for the filming of the final scene which involves flying a helicopter across the city at less than 600 feet above ground. It is supposed to be the most complicated sequence ever filmed." Just plain nuts. Here is a
previous story about the trailer, and another one announcing the film.
What if it doesn't reboot? :O
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How much money in the form of opportunity cost do you think the city might lose?
Surely computer graphics these days are advanced enough to eradicate the need for real filming? Maybe this is all just a giant publicity stunt?
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There is no helicopter
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From the bottem of the article
Part three The Matrix Revolutions is also in production and will be released in December 2000
Sorry to have missed it...
They must just be talking about the flight path and some margin around it.....
gee, I hope they talk to God and get a good weather day...
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From the bottom of the article :
Part three The Matrix Revolutions is also in production and will be released in December 2000
Not only are they filming the most complicated sequence ever, but they will be the first movie company to premiere a movie in the _past_. How they plan to manage the space/time disruption is apparently a closely guarded studio secret
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The red ones are DayQuil, but I suppose you could mix them with the green ones.....
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Isn't that what movie sets are for? Can't they rebuild a replica of the city they want on some backlot?
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Part of what makes CG look so, well, CG, is those unrealistic camera angles. There are some things that just don't work when you're point of view isn't governed by the laws of physics.
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this is the stuff that cgi cannot replace, the realism just wouldnt be there, now the fight scene at the subwaystation, thats what cgi is for.
I want 2D games back.
It's common practice for parts of Los Angeles to be closed for movie making, even if the sequence is not that dangerous. When I lived there, there were several times I was unable to get to work or park once I arrived. At least once that I can remember, they shut down all of downtown. It is extremely annoying to have your life interupted for the sake of entertainment. I might have been more forgiving, though, had they been working on the Matrix!
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I just hope the W brothers don't kill themselves in the process of trying to "out do" the original matrix. The two of them have already spent quite a few years to this effort. It's always tough when a director makes a really successful movie, because the expectation are set unrealitically high. If they manage to pull it off, they may become hollywood heavy weights. If they flop, it's going to be a costly blunder.
Other "my whacky final scene is whackier than yours" ideas:
- Close down New York to make a film about 9-11, idea: actually fly airplanes into stuff, randomly. Pilots and crew: CIA, FBI and American Government officials.
- Close down Jerusalem to make the final scene of a movie about the Israeli+Palestinian conflict. Idea: a huge crane pounds Arafat and Sharon repeatedly against various religious monuments.
- Close down Paris to make the final scene of a film about the world cup. Idea: a giant soccer ball rolling around the streets with "losers" painted on, squishing right-wing partidaries.
- Close down a strip of territory in Kashmere to make the final scene of a film about the alleged India-Pakistan conflict. Idea: Nuclear warheads detonated on top of CNN reporters who claimed a nuclear war was about to happen, as if it was a light subject you can kid around with.
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Guys... it's two too three streets being shut down, for a peroid no longer than two days. Buildings along George and Sussex streets are being evacuted for public safety reasons. Other than that, its business as usual in our fair city.
I repeat. They are *not* shutting down all of sydney.
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Is it just me, but does the article give no reason at all why it has to be `shutdown'?
But it will probably go something like this:
Filmmaker: "We need all the people out of the city for two days."
Mayor: "That's not possible. We can ban jetskies from the harbour if you like."
Filmmaker: "No, we need the city, not the harbour. We are going to do some stunts there."
Mayor: "Sounds impressive, but what if all the people start riding their jetskies in the harbour instead of going to the city? I don't like that, and I've made it illegal already."
Filmmaker: "Please have a look at this script, it's specially printed for you on green paper with some transparent parts for the so called `special effects'".
Mayor: "It's a deal, I'll just make being in the city on these days illegal, except for people with jetskies. After all, they might go ride them in the harbour if they're not allowed to put them in the city."
People from Sydney should get the subtleties...
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Be careful what you wish for. Tom Cruise is stupid enough to fall for Scientology.
No this is the kind of stuff that MODEL MAKERS were supposed to replace. But then again they're a nearly extict breed these days due to over reliance on CG.
I remember alot of great scenes that were done with model work. Including cockpit perspective fly-thrus.
In the beginning of the film Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise, he runs around an empty Times Square. Word has it that Hollywood paid $3 million to shut down the most active city in the world for a few early morning hours.
... unless sufficient amounts of cash are provided? Principles aside though, I simply can't see how paying a realistic amount to compensate each and every business and individual displaced by this activity could work out as less than doing a kick ass CGI version of it.
Unless of course Sydney is working on the "First one is free" principle (or second one in this case), to make themselves look like a great (i.e. cheap, compliant) location for foreign film companies. Fair enough, but I'm kind of picturing how we might respond if (e.g.) a Bollywood company thought it could just breeze in and pay to have most of Detroit forcibly evacuated. "Get lost," springs to mind, along with stronger objections and possible a slew of litigation against the City.
As I said, it's up to Sydney if they want to turn themselves into a giant movie location, but I'd be surprised if it does their reputation as a business location any good.
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Personally, I'd prefer that a pilot would be mounted in the pilot's seat, considering how difficult the stunt is and all...
This is the matrix remember?
You know the movie that knocked Hollywood on it's ass with bitching CGI, not lame CGI like phantom menace.
Why where the FX better in the Matrix then in Phantom Menace?
Answerer, the filmmakers of the matrix realize that not every thing can be done with computers. Some shoots just look better when filmed with real sets not CGI blue/green screen sets.
Ok, I am a fan of CGI,computers, cyberspave, hell it is what I do and a great love of my life. But shut down a city for Keaanu Reeves. Come all this from the guy that did Pointbreak. And a 50 other bad flicks.
Oh come on now, don't be so harsh on the fellow. It's not his fault he got a bad rap. When you actually go back and watch Point Break you'll notice it's actually quite intellectual. Are the surfer bank robbers really the bad guys or is it the corporate world who hordes all the money from the ordinary people? The bourgeoisie came to America and have crippled it with their new-aristocracy based on wealth instead of nobility. In the end we can only look to the true heroes of that film.. Patrick Swayze and his crazy bunch of presidential bank robbers.
As far as Bill and Ted, don't even get me started on the wealth of historical information that movie conveys to the viewer. Freud was my favorite character. Who would have known he was such a prude? And Khan! What a badass. If the Matrix Reloaded is half as good as Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey we will be in for quite a treat.
But what did you really think of The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones
Worst. Prequels. Ever. Rest assured that I was on the Internet within minutes sharing my disgust with the world.
Hollywood does some strange things for movies. The movie Field of Dreams was filmed in my hometown of Dubuque Iowa, and the field is but 26 miles away.For teh final scene fo the movie they wanted to have a line of cars, at night with lights on, stretching as far as possible. So, for a few hours, they had shutdown a rural road (not a big deal), half of one highway and half of another highway.
All for a snaking line of cars at dusk with headlights on.
Tell me computers couldn't have done that:)
Isn't that what computers are for?
Did the Star Wars crew not create entire cities?
mark
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Funny, I thought that cities were for living in and business, etc, etc, not for rich-ass movie companies to play with.
You've just got no clue why cities want movies to be filmed in their jurisdictions
Think about the budget for big-time blockbusters like Matrix 2 and 3, both of which are being filmed in and around Sydney. Together, they probably total around 300-500 million dollars. Much of that money will be spent on production. A significant portion of that money is spent on things adjacent to the filming process, like catering, for example.
There are restaurants in Sydney that will be made for life with the massive amounts of catering required by such a huge production. Even if Carrie Ann Moss isn't allowed to have more than a celery stick for every meal so that she still looks good in skin-tight latex as Trinity, you can bet that Bubba the gaffer and Hank the electrician want steak and potatos for every meal. Both the Wachowski brothers are big guys. I bet they don't skimp on the catering either.
Also, since the actors have been in Sydney for about a year, do you think they're living in trailers? Probably they're living in fancy hotel aparments for thousands of dollars a month.
Money makes it worth it.
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Helicopters, and to a lesser effect wing effect, find it easy to fly very near the ground. The airflow is disrupted by the ground, and this reduces the drag and increases the lift. This page and this page explain it well. This means that flying 5' off the ground is actually very easy, and as long as there is adequate room above the craft, it should be possible.
For a project I was working on I wanted to do some shooting over Toronto at a height that would have worked out to around 400ft. They wouldn't let me.
The problem, as I discovered, is not an issue of whether it is safe to pilot at that altitude, but should some malfunction or other problem cause an emergency (or crash) landing. Legally (in Toronto anyway) the pilot must fly at a minimum of 1000ft in order to have enough altitude that (s)he can move the helicopter away from densely populated areas in the case of an emergency - rather than arbitrarily falling on top of whatever is directly below.
Now, in the case of a Sea King (the helicopter of "choice" for the Canadian Navy) I wouldn't want one flying at *any* altitude over a populated region. Something about 30,000 parts flying in formation that makes me nervous.
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I remember when they were filming Godzilla here in NYC. I was trying to get to work, and they had closed off 23rd street to shoot one of those "tons-O-fish falling from the sky" scenes. There were a bunch of us standing there for several minutes on rush hour, trying to get to work or school, and the one security guy holding us back. Then one guy decided to just keep going, and the whole crowd just marched ahead while the security guy kept trying to hold people back.
I wonder how many security guards they're gonna need to hold back a city's entire population.
Why not just shoot the thing at 5 in the morning and digitially chop out any people that may be hanging around the streets?
What happens if there is an accident (these things do happen). Then they would have to digitally chop out the chopped up people. It's a matter of safety.
My question is: How could they tell it from a normal traffic day in Turin?
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They shut down Tokyo to shoot the Times Square sceene?
> You know, I am going to have seen this already, and it is willian on-coming to have been AWESOME!!!
Use of the transitive par-past-prefect in the first clause:
I am going to have seen this already
necessitates the usage of an entrance stative par-past-profect (note: profect!) when describing the status of the predicate, as in:
and it is willian on-coming to have been AWESOME!!!
should be changed to:
and it is willain on-coming to have been AWESOME!!!
I know it's subtle. And, it could have been a typo, but sometimes it makes all the difference in the world for intelligibility.
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