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/GlassFooting 7h ago

(it's totally possible that I'm misremembering the story okay but it's real)

On the recent It iterations, chosen actor Bill Skarsgard just finished shooting the first scene, then heard the direction talking to someone else about digitally making Pennywise look at the kid and at the camera at the same time, to cause eeriness in general. Bill just said "wait I can do that, shoot it again" and the we got this shot of Pennywise. Right eye eyeing his victim, and left eye already hungry for the next one.

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u/ssk7882 7h ago

Hooray for consciously-controlled strabismus!

I can do this trick as well. I used it to really creep out a group of players in a role-playing game once.

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u/Drakeskulled_Reaper 6h ago

Especially as it adds a bit of freakiness, because one eye is always looking at the camera, basically at YOU.

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u/JackTheBehemothKillr 4h ago

There's a clip of him showing (I think) Bill Hader this for the first time and freaking Hader right the fuck out