• Mongostein@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    They just got a bunch of new filming locations, so maybe they can make up the time in travel.

  • lugal@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1211·
    2 days ago

    It’s called post apocalyptic for a reason. A few years from now, this genre will lose its futuristic aspect

    • shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      i think the futuristic aspect will stay still it’s a future of an alternate world - think steampunk, victorian scifi but still scifi. this is atomic age scifi

      • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        They even have a name for it: Atompunk. It’s got all the aesthetics of the mid-century, but with nuclear power.

        I’ve been partial to dieselpunk myself, though. Interwar grittyness really cinches it for me.

    • fckreddit@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      Considering I will die come the apocalypse, post apocalypse will always be futuristic to me.

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      Reminds me when they used an authentic gold rush town to film Will Smith’s Wild, Wild West and accidentally burned some of the historic buildings to the ground.

      • tibi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        162·
        2 days ago

        Making a movie by taking advantage of a tragedy in which thousands of people lost their homes and some even their lives is in poor taste. Many of these people are vulnerable and don’t have a safety net, they won’t be able to rebuild their lives after this.

        Remember how The Creator got backlash for using footage of the Beirut explosion?

        • frayedpickles@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          44·
          2 days ago

          So giving them money to use their burned-out land for like, 3 months, is bad? As has always been the case, “poor taste” is exceedingly impractical and negative for society.

          Using real footage of people dying really butts up against the practicality line, but why fake an explosion if it’s already recorded? Same with the train crash thing in a similar vein.

          • droporain@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            11·
            2 days ago

            What if they like put an ad in the newspaper, the people on film who died can write in if they are opposed to it? /S just in case…

        • droporain@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          611·
          2 days ago

          Typed from your slave made cellphone from the comfort of your slave sewn clothes… Poor taste indeed.

    • MissGutsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      From the Wikipedia article of the stalker movie

      Several people involved in the film production, and possibly Tarkovsky himself, died from causes that some crew members attributed to the film’s long shooting schedule in toxic locations.

      Sound designer Vladimir Sharun recalled: “We were shooting near Tallinn in the area around the small river Jägala with a half-functioning hydroelectric station. Up the river was a chemical plant and it poured out poisonous liquids downstream. There is even this shot in Stalker: snow falling in the summer and white foam floating down the river. In fact it was some horrible poison. Many women in our crew got allergic reactions on their faces. Tarkovsky died from cancer of the right bronchial tube. And Tolya Solonitsyn too. That it was all connected to the location shooting for Stalker became clear to me when Larisa Tarkovskaya died from the same illness in Paris.”

      The production story of that movie was wild

  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    Wasn’t there a movie about war that had to relocate their shoot because of an actual war happening nearby?

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      2 days ago

      Apocalypse Now

      Filmed predominantly in the Phillippines, a particular clip from the documentary reveals how the helicopters in the film belonged to the Phillippines and were used to fight rebels and insurgents.

      Due to the “civil war in the south”, the narrator (Eleanor Coppola) says, “Every day the government sends different pilots who haven’t participated in the rehearsals, wrecking tens and thousands of dollars worth of shots.”

      Since there were “rumours” about rebels being positioned just ten miles away from the shooting location, the Filipino commanders feared the safety of the cast and crew and remained stationed at the locations.

      Coppola continues, “In the middle of a complicated shot, the helicopters [later revealed to be five in number] were called away to fight the rebels.” This led to a delay in the filming schedule.

      My wife would have been a child in the 1979 Philippines. I’ll have to ask her about all that.

      • x0x7@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Shouldn’t it be tens of thousands of dollars? So it’s like $2,000 dollars and $40 bucks?

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I take it to mean, “…sometimes wrecking thousands, even tens of thousands…” Poor wording, but it’s a quote, what you gonna do?

    • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      For Full Metal Hacket they flew palm trees to England because of Kubrick’s fear of flying. I think the war was over though.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    That’s a really cool picture. With the red, and the out of focus, and the pipboy. Costume design was on point in that show.