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'Children Of Men' - impossible one-shot car scene (spoiler)

!!!Pretty big spoiler in here if you havn't seen the movie!!!

Here is one of the cool, long, one-shot scenes that help make Children of Men an amazingly immersing film. (NSFW for f-bomb)
westysays...

when the moterbike flips over its a cg model you can tell by the animatoin. i thought the film seting was realy cool but the story of the film is fairly boring. its the kind of film that would work alot better as a game.

bamdrewsays...

Very clever scene, especially because it very well avoids making a passive viewer aware of the intense complexity of the shot. Another scene in the movie follows the protagonist while he runs through a bombed out city, through a broken-down bus, and back out around the city while being shot at... also as one long following-shot.

The only way I could first think this shot was possible was through a trick ceiling in the van, through which a camera can be manned, and swept around the group... but then its handed out to the side of the road...

The dirtbike is not the smoothest cg ever; looks a tad unnatural, should have just had him fall over and crash into the road embankment.

Sylvester_Inksays...

Man, nowadays everyone assumes that everything is cg. The dirtbike certainly doesn't look like cg to me, it just looks rigged so that it would fly around like that. People should realize that cg is expensive stuff, especially if you're going to make it detailed enough to look real. (And the motorcycle in this scene certainly looks detailed enough.) Why waste good budget money on cg when you can rig the cycle to do its thing for much less. I mean, effects experts have been doing it for years and we've all scene stuff a LOT more radical than this that wasn't cg. (Exploding helicopters, crashing trains, demolished buildings.) Granted those things are a bit more expensive, but if they can be done in a convincing manner without cg, then a simple motorcycle flip would be no issue.

The ping-pong ball is a bit more likely, as that trick doesn't look really easy to do, and the cg wouldn't be all that expensive, but again, why even spend money at all? It's just as likely that the actors were able to do it with another effects method, or perhaps even naturally.

Of course, I could be wrong about this, as I don't know the details behind the making of the movie . . .

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