Fuck Yeah Behind the Scenes

David Fincher was drawn to the movie as he grew up in California around the time of the Zodiac killings and saw him as a “bogeyman”. (x)

So here’s something that I’ve been dancing around posting for a while now.

I made this blog on a whim almost four years ago because there wasn’t one already that I fit what I was looking for. I made it and began posting. I’ve been blown away by how popular it is and how much support I’ve gotten. So many of you have sent messages and wonderful comments about it that brighten my day. I’ve gotten featured on Tumblr a few times. Heck I even go an article about me on one of my favorite websites.

So with that I’m going to probably start winding down. It was both a very hard decision and an easy one. It’s been a wild ride but one that I feel like has been ending for a while. I won’t say that running this has been difficult or taxing or anything like that, but eventually it becomes tiring, especially as I’m the only one who’s ever run it.

Posts won’t stop entirely for a while, I’m going to try to post on weekdays for a little while longer, eventually I’ll probably just stop.

It’s weird to say this but I’d like to thank all of my followers. You’re kind words have gotten me through more tough times then you’ve probably realized. It was a lot of fun for a long time!

If for some reason you want to know more about the lady who’s run this thing my personal blog is @dappersden

Peace and love,

Jessica Chastain went through a full-body cast process for the film. She posted pictures on her Facebook of her getting her head, torso, and fists cast. (x)

9-1-1 operators in Pittsburgh were told to expect an increase in calls related to gunshots and explosions in the film's production. (x)

Animating hair was one of the biggest challenged for the film. Senior software engineer Kelly Ward spent six years writing programs to make it move the way they wanted. (x)

Cinematographer Daniel Mindel stated that The Force Awakens would use real locations and scale models over computer-generated imagery to make it aesthetically similar to the original Star Wars trilogy. (x)

At least two Falkor models were constructed; the first used airplane steel for the frames and the head alone weighed more than 200 pounds. (x)

Forced perspective was used for most of the scenes shot in the North Pole. (x)

Spielberg did not storyboard the D-Day sequence, as he wanted spontaneous reactions and for "the action to inspire me as to where to put the camera". (x)

Wadi Rum, Jordan was used as a stand in for Mars. (x)

Writer Robert Towne took the title (and the exchange, "What did you do in Chinatown?" / "As little as possible") from a Hungarian vice cop who had worked in Chinatown and explained to the writer that the complicated array of dialects and gangs in Los Angeles's Chinatown made it impossible for the police to know whether their interventions were helping victims or furthering their exploitation. (x)

Since the filmmakers could only afford a single dressed-up elephant, the scene where Luke Skywalker spotted two Banthas side by side was realized through optical compositing. (x)

Makeup artist Jack Pierce and Boris Karloff would meet for hours every evening in the weeks leading up to the film’s production to go over the Monster’s look. (x)

Rex Harrison declined to pre-record his musical numbers for the film, explaining that he had never talked his way through the songs the same way twice and thus could not convincingly lip-sync to a playback during filming (x)

One notable animator on the film was Hideaki Anno, who later wrote and directed Neon Genesis Evangelion. (x)

Chappie was written over the course of two weeks while writer and director Neill Blomkamp made his previous film “Elysium.“ (x)

Alan Rickman’s character was supposed to be an honorary knight but this idea was shot down by Alan Rickman.