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I LOVE this movie. It's pretty bad but Michael Ironside's hair is worth it. It's a shame how truly bad the Highlander movies are. Endgame had that horrible horrible rooftop advertisement that they edited out in more recent versions but you can never edit it out from my memory because I saw it at the source. I am a witness and I testify that it happened. I was there. In the theater. You can ask my dad.
I can't say for sure how they did it in real life, but Clark Kent/Superman enter and exited the cop car at super speed. That's why we don't see the rear suspension dip. Plausible? 👍
The car looks out of the place.it must be superimposed later on. Two different scenes, pasted onto each other. You'll see a lot of these in old time Bollywood movies
It’s not difficult. It is a split screen with the car on bricks or something to prevent it from wobbling. Superman’s missing shadow is because that is where the split was.
Just the fact that the car doesn't move at all with 225 pounds of muscle Chris Reeve getting in and out shows there's definitely some kind of FX going on there. Also watch Reeve in the rear seat go down, you can tell he's not in a car, and he's also not getting out of one. The reflection in the windshield is meant to distract from this. It's a great effect for 1983 definitely. But notice the cop standing in front of the left headlights disappears.
yeah the cloud changes give it away on closer reflection - but in the cinema or tv you would not notice unless you were looking for the effect in which case why bother watching?
Esse tal Cristopher reeve era pra ter tido vergonha na cara de fazer essa droga desse filme que nao tem nada haver com superman 1 e 2, ele e o asno do richard lester, transformar um filme classico que ganhou o oscar de efeitos visuais em uma piada sem a menor graca, um vexame total do cinema, sai Margot kidder ,que aparece muito pouco, ela que brilhou tanto nos 2 primeiros filmes junto com o imbecil fantasiado do reeve, sai tambem Gene Hackiman o Lex Lutor e botam esse wesbster e aquela irma esquisita dele ea pilantra vagabunda que ele pega no filme, e a lana panaca e sonsa que joga o anel na cara de lois na frente do canalha pateta de clark kent, neste filme tao ruim e bizarro ,mesmo em cenas ridiculas e sem graca, Richard Pryor teve mais carisma do que esse reeve fantasiado de um superman mulherengo, mal carater e mentiroso , que nos dois primeiros filmes diz uma coisa e nesse fiasco do cinema faz outra.
I noticed the A-, B- and C-pillar of the passenger side looked a little out of place. Also the backdoor of the DRIVERS side freeze if you look closely. Leaving Superman also got a shadow on the backdoor but NOT at the front door as he run away. So my guess is: the filmed the moving people and the police car first, filmed the entering into a mockup second and the leaving of the mockup third and did some kind of overlay. This would explain why the car isn’t moving.
I want to know how did they did the car crushing maching ie the 1st car crusher clark kent gets puy inside and all the metal fall on top of him when bad superman turns it on to close it to crush clark kent
Just to the left of the passenger seat you can see the reflection of an explosion that that cuts off the left side of the explosion. Its a left/right splice done right there where clark fully disappears and superman pops up and out.
It would be easier to have two actors in Superman clothes. One gets in the car and stays there. The other gets out right after. But I guess they made it complicated.
He completely dissappears behind the front seats. Then he emerges. That's just old editing effects I grew up with. It's rather surprising how the lights keep turning. But not impossible with 70s tech.
Well, good observation. Yes, definitely much work went into a few seconds there. The bit I can't explain well, is the car didn't buckle and that is Reeves, who was built like a ton of bricks during the filming of this movie.
This scene is combined from two different shots. One is on the left the other on the right side. So he enters in shot one (right) as the same shot was not cut until the other shot was done(was kept long on purpose to give the next shot the time frame). And he comes out in the second shot (left). They might add the light afterwards. Thanks.
There's really nothing special about the shot. It's obviously a splice. I don't see Superman reflecting off the windshield, only the passenger side of the car. Obviously, Reeve as Clark goes completely out of view behind the windshield, and you never see any shadow of Superman (Also obviously Reeve) behind the windshield whatsoever as Superman emerges, though you should.
Superman is rotoscoped behind the door. There are a few giveaway frames right before he starts to close the door. Also the door is wonky as it opens but that looks like compression artifacts.
I'd have to look at my blu-ray to see higher definition, but to me the car looks like it might have been on a bluescreen set and comped in to the background, but I'm not for sure. All I know is something looks fake about the car in the shot, especially the windshield reflection. All that said, most of the effects shots from Superman III (and especially IV, don't get me started) look really bad. Take a look at the first Superman for quality effects. The end of the balcony/flying scene (where Superman flies off and the camera immediately pans to Clark Kent at the door of Lois' apartment) has got to be the BEST, most convincing use of rear projection I've ever seen. Usually rear projection looks awful and obviously fake (just look at practically any episode of The Dukes of Hazzard after the first few Season One episodes!), but it was well done at least for that balcony scene in the first Superman (later flying scenes with the missiles a different story).
I think it’s just a simple split screen. They would have to rig the car to not move at all, since the two sides of the car wouldn’t match up if the shocks leaned the car one way and then the other. You can see the car doesn’t move at all, and neither does the camera. There are lots of reflections and shadows that would be a nightmare to do any other way. It’s not a double, they’re both Christopher Reeve.
When he exits the car, it isnt Christopher Reeves. Look at this face. As soon as he exits the camera pans to the cop in the car, this gives them time to have Reeves in the next scene as superman.
