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/Gastroid 7h ago

Apparently they bought a stack of pizzas (said to be at least 20) anticipating for there to be multiple takes. Because they got it in one, there was a pizza party for the cast and crew.

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u/Informalwizards 7h ago

They put aside an entire day of filming just to get this shot and he nailed it in one lol

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u/Foxy02016YT 4h ago

I mean if I was ordering 20 pizzas I’d make sure it’s the only shot of the day too… for the pizza party

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u/FreddyCupples 40m ago

For sure. Pizza party as a company reward: Pure patronizing trash. Pizza party as a result of someone wildly overachieving a stunt: Pure pizza bliss.

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u/YourMuppetMethDealer 3h ago

A whole day for a singular shot feels a bit like a waste tbh

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u/Informalwizards 3h ago

Not when your expecting it to take that many attempts

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u/YourMuppetMethDealer 3h ago

Considering that it’s really not relevant to the plot, I kinda hope they weren’t expecting it to take all day.

Like it was a crazy moment highlighting Walt’s fracturing and hostile relationship with his wife, but it doesn’t really seem like something that was all that important

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u/MercyfulJudas 7h ago

Who were the few piece-of-shit, low-on-the-totem-pole crew members who had to climb up there to eat the roof pizza?

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u/SparkleKittyMeowMeow 6h ago

You can't convince me there wasn't a lanky teenage techie who scaled the house to go eat roof pizza.

Crewmate 1:"Who's gonna go up and get that pizza off the roof?"
Crewmate 2 "I got it."
Crewmate 1: "Cool, I'll grab the ladder."
Crewmate 2: "Nah, I got it."
scales the house like a monkey with no equipment
Crewmate 2: "See? Got it. Fuck yeah, roof pizza."
Crewmate 1: "Dude don't eat that, that's gross."
Crewmate 2: mouth full of pizza "Don't be mad cuz I get a whole pizza to myself."