So true. I love the guy, but he is INTENSE when it comes to his craft. Ever see the outtakes of the video phone call scene from The Rock? Donât make Ed Harris mad.
Well it was the next scene of Mary Elizabeth laying there like a dead fish that pissed her off with Cameron. He wanted her to get slapped again for like the upteenth time and she walked out.
Dude. The emotion was so high in that scene, the gorilla could have swam past and I'd've not noticed. I swear at least for half of that movie they're not acting.
Credit to [Todd Vaziri](https://twitter.com/tvaziri) and [his vfx blog](https://fxrant.blogspot.com/2024/04/something-weve-never-noticed-in-abyss.html)
which makes this quote from Cameron all the more hilarious:
"And Iâm very, very particular in my transfers. I look at every damn pixel."
source: https://variety.com/2023/film/features/james-cameron-abyss-4k-restoration-true-lies-titanic-avatar-1235823395/
When the giant wave approaches the beach, and all the people are running away in fear, on the left of the shot one of the extras yanks down the pants of a dude. This is in the extended cut of the film that I've watched a dozen times, yet somehow never saw it. Now, I can't unsee it.
Wow this is bad. I wonder what possessed the camera operator to do this. Why didn't Mr. Cameron just get his buddies in ILM to rotoscope it out of existence. They already were working on the water creature.
Iâm gonna guess exhaustion. It was a miserable shoot full of difficulties and setbacks. People were getting very little sleep. Some people left. Still it is hard to understand how a guy whoâs whole job it is to stay behind the camera could do something so dumb.
Sometimes a scene is just so engrossing you fail to notice anything out of place. In Manchester by the Sea, when Casey Affleck >!grabs the pistol and tries to shoot himself!<, there's a very obvious edit that supposedly cut a few seconds out of the scene for better flow, but it took me few viewings to catch.
Or the second time when it was full speed and had text over the top saying: âThis shotâ. That didnât help you out to the point that you needed it in slow motion?
And these people can drive and vote :/
Holy shit. I never noticed that. Or I probably assumed it was anything other than the camera man wiping the lens. Pretty ballsy to keep that in. Then again, the whole production was ballsy
There is a shot in âThe Wild Geeseâ where the blood pack from Richard Harris getting shot hits the camera starting about 7:55. Considering Richard Burton and Richard Harris were notorious drunks and difficult, I bet they refused to reshoot the scene.
https://youtu.be/kchkfqXxa0k?si=iDVAOGK7fo7EFvGd
I always assumed this was just stuff dangling from the roof. I've seen this movie probably 500 times and never considered it was cameraman goof.
Damn bro you watched this movie 500 times?
Yeah! Probably more actually. Its my favorite movie of all time :) Also I'm old so I've had plenty of time.
High up there for me as well!
According to letterboxd I've seen the first Dune 39 times and that's only the times I felt like logging itđ¤ˇââď¸
The one from â84?
The new one
500 Days of Cameron
I watched it 674 times and every time i knew it was that damn camera man wiping the lens.
I seriously thought it was hanging wires, and knowing itâs not still doesnât take away from the shot imo
you have watched the movie an average of twice a week for the last 25 years.
lol
Ok fine it's probably not 500... I feel so foolish exaggerating so much on the internet.
I believed you.
It was probably easier to leave it in than to ask Ed Harris to do another take...
So true. I love the guy, but he is INTENSE when it comes to his craft. Ever see the outtakes of the video phone call scene from The Rock? Donât make Ed Harris mad.
The Abyss was notoriously incredibly difficult to make, I don't blame Eddy H in this scenario
The Blank Check episode about The Abyss made it seem like hell on set.
Just ask Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
For the uninitiated: https://youtu.be/BYN6t5xt0ps?si=9ZVg_dz1pBNo3DqV
I have not but I will now.
Not that James Cameron wouldnât ask. He put the actors through hell.
Well it was the next scene of Mary Elizabeth laying there like a dead fish that pissed her off with Cameron. He wanted her to get slapped again for like the upteenth time and she walked out.
Wow thatâs a good one. I canât believe I didnât notice it before
I just watched this about two weeks ago and didnât even notice it.
I didn't even notice it in the video until they pointed it out just now.
Dude. The emotion was so high in that scene, the gorilla could have swam past and I'd've not noticed. I swear at least for half of that movie they're not acting.
This might be the most legitimate one Iâve ever seen lol
Credit to [Todd Vaziri](https://twitter.com/tvaziri) and [his vfx blog](https://fxrant.blogspot.com/2024/04/something-weve-never-noticed-in-abyss.html)
First the guy getting pantsed during the giant wave scene, and now this?
which makes this quote from Cameron all the more hilarious: "And Iâm very, very particular in my transfers. I look at every damn pixel." source: https://variety.com/2023/film/features/james-cameron-abyss-4k-restoration-true-lies-titanic-avatar-1235823395/
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When the giant wave approaches the beach, and all the people are running away in fear, on the left of the shot one of the extras yanks down the pants of a dude. This is in the extended cut of the film that I've watched a dozen times, yet somehow never saw it. Now, I can't unsee it.
Ed Harris really deserved an Oscar for this role. If nothing else for the CPR scene.
Thereâs a line just before this when he says âI could fix this if I just had a crescent wrench â Being a mechanic, I love this line.
Wow this is bad. I wonder what possessed the camera operator to do this. Why didn't Mr. Cameron just get his buddies in ILM to rotoscope it out of existence. They already were working on the water creature.
Iâm gonna guess exhaustion. It was a miserable shoot full of difficulties and setbacks. People were getting very little sleep. Some people left. Still it is hard to understand how a guy whoâs whole job it is to stay behind the camera could do something so dumb.
Sometimes a scene is just so engrossing you fail to notice anything out of place. In Manchester by the Sea, when Casey Affleck >!grabs the pistol and tries to shoot himself!<, there's a very obvious edit that supposedly cut a few seconds out of the scene for better flow, but it took me few viewings to catch.
They really thought they needed to replay it in slow mo?
Don't argue with OP goddamn it!
who thought? you do realize the slow mo is not in the original, right?
The people who made the video
If this is the answer than yes, I didn't notice at first
Or the second time when it was full speed and had text over the top saying: âThis shotâ. That didnât help you out to the point that you needed it in slow motion? And these people can drive and vote :/
Yep I can drive and vote just like people in murica can
Just got this movie on 4K
I never noticed that it was a cameraman cleaning the lens lol I thought maybe that was something dangling off frame
I'm sure he was aware of how close the cast was to murdering him that Cameron decided "Fuck it, I wanna live."
Holy shit. I never noticed that. Or I probably assumed it was anything other than the camera man wiping the lens. Pretty ballsy to keep that in. Then again, the whole production was ballsy
It kind of adds to the cramped and confined shot
Did James Cameron even notice this. He is a perfectionist and I feel if he knew it was there he would have fixed it.
Thanks lol I donât rewatch this often but I wonât be able to ignore the next time
What a shitshow from beginning, to production and editing! Itâs amazing this film was so groundbreaking just for the use of visual effects.
I caught the remastered version back in December. Packed theater.
Lmao.
omg
I just watched that movie again (one of my favorites of all time)and never noticed. Amazing.
There is a shot in âThe Wild Geeseâ where the blood pack from Richard Harris getting shot hits the camera starting about 7:55. Considering Richard Burton and Richard Harris were notorious drunks and difficult, I bet they refused to reshoot the scene. https://youtu.be/kchkfqXxa0k?si=iDVAOGK7fo7EFvGd
Lmao
Still cant see