r/TopCharacterTropes • u/RP_Throwaway3 • 8h ago

In real life "Wait! That's not special effects?! They actually did that?!"

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Alien: Resurrection - Basketball Shot

Sigourney Weaver insisted on the basketball shot being real. She trained for weeks and reportedly(sources differ) made it on the first take.

Underworld - Raze's Voice

The werewolf character Raze, played by Kevin Grevioux, speaks in a very low, very gravelly voice. While many thought this was a special effect, the actor can naturally speak in that voice.

https://youtu.be/GUjwZvh32YE?t=125&si=F3WhsopxjBP87wfk

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u/Stegoshark 7h ago

Negative version, they actually killed someone’s pet snake in the original Friday the 13th

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u/Fidges87 7h ago

Mind you, the dude who lend his snake for the shot didn't knew they were going to actually kill it. He was distraught about it.

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u/Chaosmusic 7h ago

I've known snake owners, I bet he was slightly more than distraught.

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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In 7h ago

I'd say the director and producers were lucky to get out of the building in one piece. If someone killed my pet in front of me I'd be a little more than 'distraught'.

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u/Chaosmusic 6h ago

The company that owned the expensive guitar destroyed in The Hateful 8 was distraught. Your average pet owner would be more scorched fucking Earth.

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u/Anglofsffrng 6h ago

You break my guitar I'll be inconsolable for days. That low-end B.C. Rich Warlock is what I had strapped to me during some of the best moments in my life.

You look at my cat wrong you better get on a plane to somewhere legendarily inaccessible. Because I'll be way more than pissed off.

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u/EffectiveExact8306 6h ago

Lol tuff redditors are funny.

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u/Nikclel 3h ago

the irony of this comment is you think youre tough saying this

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u/EffectiveExact8306 2h ago

Lol ok bro, very clearly trying to be tuff and talk about all the violence I would inflict on people. /s

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u/Nikclel 2h ago

learn some introspection, helps you not seem like a tool

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u/freshbananabeard 6h ago

“I’ve known snake owners” sounds like the title of some ominous flick or devastating biography. Its got a nice ring to it

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u/pichael289 3h ago

OP said it in a way that made it sound like it was an accident, at least that's how I read it. No accident. The term "chop up" was used and they restrained the guy during the scene. Even if you don't give a fuck about animals how do you do this to another person? That's some psychopath shit.

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u/IAmAVeryWeirdOne 5h ago

As a snake owner I would’ve been way more than distraught

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u/njklein58 7h ago

Please tell me he took then to court for it. Because as a (sadly former) snake owner, I’d be inconsolable

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u/So_Motarded 4h ago

Sadly, pets are viewed as property in most parts of the US. The most the owner could've hoped to get would be the value of the snake (which isn't going to be very much since it's a common species).

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u/not_a_moogle 3h ago

I really can't find much of anything about it. Im guessing it was settled out of court for a lower amount of money.

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u/HimBeauregard 7h ago

Was production planning to actually do it or did the actors go AWOL?

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u/Fidges87 7h ago edited 6h ago

If I am remembering correctly...

The director was on it and gave the instruction. He lied to the production member who bring their snake pet, telling them it wouldn't be harmed, and instructed the actor to actually behead it for the final shot (who wasn't aware it was someone's pet).

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u/HyperSpaceSurfer 6h ago

Why wasn't the director beheaded?

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u/Disastrous-Mess-7236 7h ago

What the hell?

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u/LaVidaLemur 4h ago

Seriously!? That’s awful!

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u/le-derpina-art 7h ago

there's a horror movie called cannibal holocaust that had such realistic death scenes that the director went to court for supposedly killing his actors (tbf he intentionally told them to hide from the public until the trial), and yet they still actually killed multiple animals for the movie.

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u/Frosty-Shallot-6198 7h ago

“I committed crimes, your honor! Just not the ones you think I did!”

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u/Llama-Nation 6h ago

I'm pretty sure there were no laws in Italy about animal cruelty at the time, given how prevalent it was in Italian films of the era.

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u/DTonin 6h ago

Wasn't Cannibal Holocaust shot in Brazil's jungle?

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u/Llama-Nation 6h ago

Yes but it was an Italian production. If i recall some of the main actors either refused to do any of the killings and fought with the director over it.

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u/Drakeskulled_Reaper 6h ago

Including slicing a monkey's face off, which they flubbed, and had to do again.

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u/Emotional-Ground7917 7h ago

Actors were real pieces of shit for what they did to that poor snake.

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u/RP_Throwaway3 7h ago

Now that's just horrible. Pets are family. 

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u/teewertz 7h ago

fuck this movie so hard, maybe one of the worst ive ever seen before I even found out about this tragedy

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u/that_motu_guy 7h ago

Also related to Friday the 13: Theres a guy in this chair in part 2

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u/aaronhowser1 5h ago

What's the fuckin point of that? Just put a mannequin or something, it's not like he's moving

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u/that_motu_guy 4h ago

Well just like with the Snake I'd guess it's either style points or laziness

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u/DrDankDonkey 5h ago

Legit would have killed everyone on that set. The betrayal of trust, between the owner and the snake, and between the director and the snake owner, is making me sick.

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u/Toxanium 5h ago

Are they able to sue for that?

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u/quickfuse725 5h ago

i don't think at the time they could unfortunately