Craig Strathie

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[Craig Strathie @CraigStrathie]

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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real.

The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later.

Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him.

Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman.

Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact.

95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

Michael B. Jordan just thanked all six Black winners in the Best Actor and Best Actress categories during his own Best Actor speech:

"I stand here because of the people that came before me. Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Will Smith. And to be amongst those giants, amongst those greats, amongst my ancestors...thank you."

[22gunner @Gnar1104]

When you grow up listening to singers like this, you realize how annoying it is that we've got such a low caliber of "singers" that we have today.

[Vittorio @vittorioangelon]

Okay okay here’s the clip

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

[fooler initiative @metroadlib]

when we have a moment, I'd like to discuss this unit if measurement please.

[Craig Strathie @CraigStrathie]

@nopalitoss_ I don’t know about being beautiful … but I’m open to the holding

[duck @ExtremeBlitz__]

people born in 1990-2005 realizing we grew up in the best time to be a kid and the worst time to be an adult

[💕 Brittany Belle 💕 @BrittanyinTexas]

Bro in DC as a middle finger running from the Epstein files, with Secret Service in hot pursuit. Can’t stop laughing! 😂

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first trailer for ‘SCARY MOVIE 6’ has been released.

In theaters on June 12.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

The guy in the pig nose in the background of Lucy Powell’s Sky News interview is absolutely fucking rinsing her.

At one point she even turns her shoulder unnaturally to try to obscure him, to no avail.

We are not a normal country.

#GortonandDentonByElection

[👑Ninney👑 @Ninney2021]

Omfg, I am not ashamed to say I've just piss'd me pants!!

😂😂😂😂😂

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

The Rat Pack and the swinging Count Basie Band behind them! Outstanding!
That was real entertainment — the kind of magic, charisma, and pure talent we rarely see anymore. Truly unforgettable. ✨🎶

What a time it was!🙌🔥❤️👏👏

[irene @eneribehave]

All this talk of Tourette’s today has had me thinking about this absolute queen

[PNF 🌚 @PotnoodIefringe]

3 and a half minutes of comedy gold

[John Pitchford🌹💙 @Johnnypapa64]

Good morning, have a brilliant Tuesday, this is my favourite scene from One Foot In The Grave (there are many to choose from)