In this day and age most films, if not all have some sort of visual effects. Of course films such as anything in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars come to mind. One film you think would have minimal VFX shots would be something like the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.
Oddly enough the aformentioned film is the reason for this article as on the latest episode of his podcast Fatman Beyond the film’s director, Kevin Smith, stated that the his upcoming film has more VFX shots than the original Star Wars. You can check out what he had to say below.
“This is not bragging and this is not saying this makes me a better filmmaker by any stretch of the imagination, this is just for the layman to show you how far filmmaking and special effects have come from our childhood. We have three times as many visual effects/CG/visual effects in general in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot than they did in Star Wars.”
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Smith further explains:
“Now, that doesn’t mean our movie is like, ‘we’re gonna take you to f****** space.’” It just means everything that counts as an effects shot. So, anytime we had people in a car, we didn’t do a process trailer, we didn’t put people in a car on top of a truck and drive the truck around. We just threw them on a green screen, or put them on a stage with a green screen behind them, and did the backgrounds later. Every one of those shots counts as an effects shot. So, I mean, even though it didn’t cost as much as blowing up the Death Star, they’re both visual effects shots at the end of the day, so when you just count them like that, we have three times as many as they had in Star Wars and we’re not even a visual effects heavy movie.”
It doesn’t sound right to say that the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot has more VFX shots than the original Star Wars, but it’s true. In this age of filmmaking the VFX shots are more commonplace than ever before, but these particuliar shots are done more out of convenience than necessity.
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Source: Fatman Beyond (via ComicBook.com)
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