2021.02.17
Details of the video magic created by visual effects innovator Robert Zemeckis
Actress Madeline (Meryl Streep) steals her orthopedic surgeon fiancé, Ernest (Bruce Willis) from Helen (Goldie Hawn), but their marriage has already fallen apart. What's more, when Helen reunites with him after a long time, she looks younger than anyone else.
One stormy night, Madeline, who has been rejected by a young and muscular mistress, is introduced to the president of a beauty salon company by a mysterious beauty, Lisl (Isabella Rossellini), who offers her a secret medicine that will give her eternal beauty. He was shown this and ended up drinking it on the spot. What then? Her hands, which were covered in wrinkles and stains, instantly shine, and her sagging bust and hips lift up a lot! . It’s too late!?
(Here, Zemeckis chose to both use special makeup and CG to express the changes in Streep's skin, while using an analog technique where an assistant hides in Streep's shadow and blows into her inflatable bra, inflating it all at once.) .)
When Madeline returned home, she insulted Ernest, who now works as a corpse restorer, by abusive language, and was thrown down a high staircase, making several cracking sounds and sustaining broken bones on the way. Like, stop downstairs. I thought she was going to die instantly, but eventually she stood up and began to stagger along, her neck twisted and her head facing backwards.
(In the scene where Streep's head is dislocated and turned upside down, an animatronic model was originally created by Amalgamated Dynamics, a special effects studio that also provided technology for `` Alien³ '' (1992) and `` Jumanji '' (1995).) Streep's special effects make-up was combined with blue screen technology, but the effect was not good, so CG was eventually used.)
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Meanwhile, Helen manipulates Ernest into planning to kill Madeline, but when Madeline learns of their plan, she shoots Helen with a shotgun. Helen's body flies through the air and lands in a garden pond. After a while, a drenched Helen returns to life with a large bullet hole in the middle of her stomach, as if nothing had happened. In other words, just like Madeline, Helen was able to obtain eternal youth through a secret potion, but once her body was damaged, she became part of a sad and terrifying fate where she could never die.
When the two finally face off directly, they fight in anger with shovels in hand. Madeline's head caves in under her neck from the force of being hit with the shovel.
(A scene in which Madeline quickly resets her neck also features the first computer-generated skin texture in film history.)
Helen then takes a seat on the couch with the handle of a shovel passed through her stomach.
(ILM, Industrial Light & Magic's VFX staff used a morphing technique developed by ILM for Willow (1988) to make it look like the shovel handle was penetrating Helen's stomach. The film meets the director's expectations by using SFX (one of the SFX techniques that makes it appear as though objects are changing into different objects).
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