Posted on 03/09/2015 9:01:41 AM PDT by KeyLargo
This Is How Hollywood Has Been Fooling You All Along
When it comes to contemporary Hollywood films, there's often more than meets the eye. We're not just talking about an elaborate use of special effects and CGI, its those smaller more finite details that are so often easy to ignore.
On the set of any movie, along with the crew, actors and stunt doubles you'll also have 'extra's' - people like you and I paid to simply be a warm prop, background fodder if you will. A crowd milling about in a scene or a customer in a shop. Extra's can get paid quite handsomely for just a few days work depending on the film. But when it comes to scenes involving giant crowds, how do the movie studios afford to pay all those individuals and how can you possibly direct 20,000 people?
The truth is, they don't.
Thanks to the ingenious work of the Inflatable Crowd Company (talking about finding a niche in the industry) the majority of the 'crowds' you see in films are actually just inflatable or latex dolls. Filmed at a distance, add in a few noticeable facial features, wigs, props and some everyday clothes and you'll find during the heat of the moment you won't even notice the difference between 'extras' and their inanimate counterparts.
They are so believable in fact, that they've already been used in Iron Man 2, American Gangster, Seabiscuit, Blades of Glory, Ocean’s 13, The Prestige, Million Dollar Baby, Friday Night Lights, We Are Marshall, Contagion, The Fighter, The King’s Speech _and Spiderman 3 - _all without you even noticing.
Find out more about the illusionary work of The Inflatable Crowd Company and see lots more images from various film sets via their official site. Next time you're watching a blockbuster, keep an eye out, you might just see their handywork.
Via Inflatable Crowd Company x
Georgetown Blames Low Turnout At Hillary Clinton Speech On Final Exams
Amanda Macias and Hunter Walker
Dec. 3, 2014
UniversityFormer Secretary of State Hillary speaks at Georgetown University on December 3, 2014.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at the Georgetown Institute For Women, Peace and Security and it seems like hardly anyone showed up.
Oh crap! More democrat voters!
That’s a racist looking prop
And sexist too.
The Dems used them at their convention
Inflatable people have rights too!!
Two Days Before Election, Obama Campaigns to Half-Empty Arena—in Philadelphia (Video)
Posted by Kristinn Taylor on Sunday, November 2, 2014, 8:23 PM
In a report on Fox News Sunday night, Ed Henry gave away the magician’s trick employed by organizers to mask the failure by Obama to attract a crowd two days before Tuesday’s mid-term elections: large black drapes hung from floor to ceiling across the middle of the 10,000 seat Liacouras Center at Temple University.
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“Hands up..don’t puncture!”
That was the 'before' prop. This is the 'after' prop showing a group of feminist attendees: 
Actually, this is old stuff. There were a lot of cardboard cutouts in the crowd in The Natural - 1984.
“About 3,000 people were recruited to play extras in the stands — at the then-minimum wage of $3.35 an hour. Obviously, there still weren’t enough folks to fill the stadium. According to a contributor to Digital City Buffalo’s Movies bulletin board, “FN Burt, [a printing company] made cardboard people to be placed in the stadium during filming to cut back on the cost of extras.””
From here: http://espn.go.com/page2/s/closer/020918.html
She looks........pneumatic.....
OMG, their all CRACKERS!
“OMG, their all CRACKERS!”
al charlatan to have an emergency meeting with Hollywood in 3,2,1.....
I was just thinking that.
In the railroad scene in GONE WITH THE WIND only 1 out of 3 were live humans. The other two were dummies being moved by the live guy.
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