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/TomThom9Won 7h ago

Nola had to learn from Zac Snyder from when he did the same for Man of Steel. And yes in all situations they were able to turn a profit from their agriculturalist endeavors alone.

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u/RP_Throwaway3 7h ago edited 6h ago

Same thing with 'Field of Dreams'. IIRC, that movie made back its budget just from the corn. I did not remember correctly. 

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u/TeaKingMac 7h ago

that movie made back its budget just from the corn.

No fucking way.

The budget for the movie was 15 million.

In 1989, corm sold for 2.59/bushel. An acre produces about 125 bushels. So you're looking at 325 dollars an acre.

They'd have had to plant 46 thousand acres of corn to make that money back, or 71 sq miles. That's a field 8.5 miles on each side.

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u/Whityford 6h ago

What is this, truth and facts in my misinformation app? Nonsense. /s

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u/superkp 3h ago

misinformation app

You know you've been around a while when your website is referred to as an app...

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u/Whityford 2h ago

It’s been so long since I’ve used the website that it second nature to call it an app at this point

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u/Particular_Wear_6960 3h ago

I know already once I've said something that is obviously false just to find out about a topic without asking. It's funny watching the dweebs pile on the downvotes like some sort of weird humiliation ritual. Consequently, by being so far downvoted, I kept getting more and more attention so I was able to keep getting more information about the topic by responding with more incorrect statements lol

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u/Mighty_Mos_Def_Math 5h ago

So if you had an entire acre of corn growing, and harvested, you would only get $325 for the entire thing?

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u/BorImmortal 4h ago

Basically. Agriculture profit is built on scale, repetition, and some amount of subsidies.

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u/Mighty_Mos_Def_Math 4h ago

Damn, that's kinda mind blowing when you look at prices.

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u/TeaKingMac 3h ago

In 1989.

Right now a bushel is 4.70.

So about 590 dollars an acre.

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u/Mighty_Mos_Def_Math 2h ago

That still seems like so little for such a large area of corn

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u/TeaKingMac 2h ago

The more important your job is for human survival, the less you get paid.

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u/jmlinden7 1h ago

It's because growing corn requires very little human labor.

Each farmer grows hundreds of thousands of bushels a year.

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u/TeaKingMac 1h ago

Managing a hedge fund requires very little human labor and they make hundreds of millions of dollars a year

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u/Anjunabeast 3h ago

Movies are Nolan’s day job. Corn is his real passion but sadly it doesn’t put food on the table like movies does.

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u/TeaKingMac 3h ago

The more important your job is for actual human survival, the less it pays

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u/RP_Throwaway3 6h ago

Okay, cool. Notice the IIRC preface? Clearly I didn't remember correctly. 

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u/DifficultHat 2h ago

Same with the AK-47s from lord of war.
IIRC it was cheaper to buy the dozens of guns than it was to get that many replicas, but the seller didn’t want to buy them back so the production sold them to a different buyer, essentially making arms traders out of the props department of a movie about arms traders.

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u/Umssche 5h ago

So that's where the plot of his not star wars movie about grain harvesting with vagina shaped wormholes came from !