The legendary film Remember All: Secrets of Special Effects (23 pics)

The Golden Age of Hollywood Cinematography 1980-90-ies is not in vain often associated with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Remember the times when the release of each film with "Mr. Olympia" & raquo; in the title role, a priori, promised a frenzied shooter of the old school? "Conan the Barbarian", "Terminator", "Commando", "Raptor", "Red Heat", "True lie & raquo; Without these tapes, it's hard to imagine American cinema at the end of the last century.

In the second half of the 1980s, Iron Arnie was lucky enough to meet the Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, who by that time had managed to remove the hard, topical, ironic and, importantly for the dream factory & raquo; the over-the-top film Robocop. Two geniuses had to work on a new picture, which also was destined to go down in history. "

On Shooting & laquo; Remembering everything & raquo; allocated one of the highest for those times budgets. Significantly more expensive was only released a year later "Terminator 2". It is understandable, because after the tape of Paul Verhoeven Arnold Schwarzenegger secured the title of the star of the first magnitude and could not restrain his requests in the size of the fee.

Surprisingly, with all the scale and cost of the film in & laquo; Remember all & raquo; there is only one serious computer special effect. Do you remember a couple of episodes when the protagonist, along with other passengers of the subway passes through the X-ray corridor? Viewers see how people come into a kind of room, then we are shown walking skeletons, which are finally being transformed into people once they leave the room. In 1989-1990, there was no technology to create such effects. It seems as if in the creation of the "X-ray & raquo; animation is nothing complicated, but it's not. Specialists had to calculate in a special way the transparency and the imposition of all the bones of skeletons, so that on the film they looked bulky.

To start with the actors playing in the X-ray episodes, & laquo; removed & raquo; movement. At Arnold Schwarzenegger wearing a white tight suit with 18 reflective light sensors. Each movement of the actor simultaneously recorded six black-and-white cameras. The computer analyzed the change in the location of the sensors, determined that a specific sensor on a certain camera corresponds to the same sensor that was captured by other cameras. "" />

All the movements necessary for shooting these scenes were photographed per day. Computer workers were very pleased with such a fast work and assured that in a couple of days the filmmakers will be presented with the most impressive episode with the seizure of movements. However, everything turned out to be much more complicated than originally expected. Instead of several days to process the material took several weeks. The method of capturing movements with the help of sensors did not meet expectations. As a result, many things simply had to be completed manually. Animation gait was given the most difficult — the most powerful computers at that time worked at the limit, a specially written program for calculating the opacity of the bones continually broke down. However, through an incredible amount of man-hours spent, the work was done so well that, as a result, it was awarded with the "Oscar" award.

After 20 years, filmmakers like to remember an entertaining story. During the filming of the passage of the actors through the 'X-ray & raquo; room one of them was walking with a dog who, in one of the takes, decided to fix a small need. All this action just fell into the frame and so pleased the director that he wanted to insert it into the film. However, later Paul Verhoeven decided that it would distract the attention of the spectators, who will remember the moment with the defecating dog, and not the x-ray corridor itself.

Basic Shooting & laquo; Remembering everything & raquo; were held in Mexico. Here found a suitable landscape with reddish sand. It was in the desert near Mexico that one of the last episodes was filmed, when the villain, the protagonist and his woman are falling to the ground, after which their faces begin to swell.

Near the Mexican capital built a huge scenery of the atmospheric reactor, and for the scenes in the metro was involved in the local metro station. Cinematographers had to rent a warehouse with an area of ​​2000 square meters — in the studio there was simply no space to store a huge amount of landscape layouts .

Almost all the fantastic Martian landscapes were recreated in miniature with the help of NASA specialists. The installation of some layouts had to spend a few days. Strictly speaking, the layouts were made for everything that we see on the screen (trains, cars, spaceship, oxygen reactor). In some cases, we had to make a few tiny samples of the same things .

To make the layouts appear larger, they were specially made with a very complex structure, then using a mobile painted background with the camera. The camera moved smoothly in front of the layout, and the background with the image of the Martian spaces seemed endless. In other cases, the background was left blue, in order to insert landscapes necessary for the surroundings instead. So, for example, it was in one of the last scenes, when mutants look out of the cave, and the camera at the same time moves away from them, showing the wide expanse of Mars.

By the way, it was the mutants that impressed the audience most during the viewing of" Recall all ".

Above the mutant image Rob Bottin worked — one of the best Hollywood make-up artists. He used the cast of Arnold Schwarzenegger's head to make a face mockup from penoresins, which depicts a whole storm of emotions while pulling out of the nostril a "bug".

Several mechanical copies of the heads had to be used in the scene with a thin atmosphere and swelling faces.

Most of all, the creators of the dolls were proud of the face of a plump woman, disguised as the hero of Arnold Schwarzenegger arrived on Mars. Do you remember how the mask got stuck and it began to decompose into parts? There is not a single computer effect here — all this is a real mechanism with Hauser's hidden puppet face. Today, this can be done much more cheaply with the help of digital technologies, but then the filmmakers created a real engineering miracle. Land transport in the film a little, and over the design of what is, for a long time did not hesitate. For example, to create a taxi used a chassis from the old Volkswagen — his frame and motor were useful. Paul Verhoeven tried to influence the viewer's imagination by -other. For example, the director-perfectionist knowingly at the very beginning of the picture decided to show a close-up brush of a girl who paints fingernails with one touch of a certain device, or an instant change in the landscape in the TV window. All this had no influence on the plot and, at the same time, required considerable funds for the incarnation. But such tricks help convince the viewer of the reality of what's happening on the screen. "Paul Verhoeven during the filming of the film"/img src="/storage/images/pages/2017-07/3c65eccd11ffeaeefcf680e714b63f87. jpg"/>

The Dutch director remembers with nostalgia the whole period of filming and is not at all annoyed with the fact that he, along with the entire crew, had to endure fever, nausea, dehydration and diarrhea. those were the conditions in Mexico. Iron Arnie did not escape from unpleasant illnesses. He brought his own cook to the shooting, but he soon fell ill, and behind him was Schwarzenegger.

However, the actor in Paul Verhoeven was not out of whims and listened to the director in everything. & laquo; In Arnold's most powerful charisma, with one glance he can display a whole gamut of emotions. In many episodes, it was enough to shoot his face & raquo ;, — remembers the Dutchman. This, however, does not mean that it was easy to work with Schwarzenegger. It was necessary to pull up his acting skill, to change the manner of the conversation, which initially resembled the speech of the robot from "Terminator".

Sometimes, to achieve a better game, the actor had to do 20, 30 and even 40 takes. The most semi-vertex, for example, most of all like the episode in which the doctor who comes to Arnold's hero tries to convince him that it's all a dream, to get out of it you just need to drink a pill. The scene, to a word, in many respects reminds an episode from a film & laquo; the Broken curtain & raquo; Alfred Hitchcock.

Interestingly, according to Paul Verhoeven's idea of ​​a happy end in "Recall all & raquo; very conditional. At the very end of the film, immediately after the final kiss, the screen is flooded with a bright light. As the director noted, he thereby wanted to show the brain dying of the protagonist, who really got stuck in the unreal memoirs & raquo; and all this time was in the chair on Earth.

& laquo; Remember all & raquo; — not just fantasy, but play with the viewer and reality. Not least this is a psychological study of man, an attempt to separate or reconcile different realities and dreams. Something similar was then done by the brothers (and now brother and sister) Wachowski in the "Matrix".

To the film "Recall all & raquo; managed to turn the whole genre of film fantasy and show that it can be not only interesting or intelligent, but also combine both of these qualities.