The director who shot this fight built his whole career on slow motion. For the Superman brawl people call the best ever, he used none of it. He filmed it shaky and handheld, like news footage of a disaster, so your eyes buy two men smashing each other through skyscrapers.
That director is Zack Snyder, and the shaky camera was only his first trick. The crew filmed the actors doing the early, ordinary parts of the fight, then stopped the instant a punch turned superhuman. A second camera photographed the empty street and the actors from every angle. Months later, the crew dropped computer-made copies of the actors into that exact spot, moving faster than any human could. You never catch the moment the person becomes the computer. That was the whole point.
Almost nothing on screen is what it looks like. Around 1,500 shots in the film needed computer work, handed to studios like the one behind Lord of the Rings. The villain, Zod, wore nothing on set but a gray suit covered in dots, and every piece of his armor was painted on later by computer. They even photographed the actors' faces from eight angles at once, so artists could rebuild them on a computer.
Composer Hans Zimmer refused to touch the old Superman music everyone hums. He gathered about a dozen of the best drummers alive, including the son of Led Zeppelin's drummer, sat them in a circle, and stood in the middle waving them on. He wanted the pounding to hit you from every side, like the fight had broken out in your room.
The buildings fall the slow, heavy way they fall in life, so the wreckage feels like a true disaster off the evening news. The man who drew up the final flying fight said he set out to beat the famous Neo versus Agent Smith battle from The Matrix, and to make it move like a Japanese cartoon.
The film cost $225 million and earned about $670 million, close to three times its budget. Thirteen years on, people still call it the best fight in any superhero movie. The crew earned that by pouring most of their work into one job: making sure you never spot where the live actor stops and the computer takes over.
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