Just to clarify I only said "well said" about Superman.
10 year old boy. lol
When Steve Rogers was in the car next to Peggy he looked like he was 6 years old, they shrunk him way too much.
"Hey baby, I may look like a kid, but everything down there works."
Yeah, credit where credit is due. Hopeman respected his father's insane death wish.
Well I'll be the first to admit that Johnston accomplished an awesome feat if this wasn't CG:I guess I assumed that we all knew that scrawny Steve was achieved by a wide range of tricks and that putting the word "real" in quotes wouldn't be necessary.
They actually did a bunch of different tricks to make Chris scrawny so that no one could just figure it out and go "oh that's what they did." Sometimes they shrunk Evans' body, sometimes they put his head on the skinny double, sometimes they did forced perspective stuff and so on. It's funny because I actually thought they did a better job than the flashback scene in TWS. When Steve remembers his time at Camp Lehigh in TWS and they show that brief scene of him pre-serum I actually didn't think it looked much like Evans.
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Joe Johnston made some interesting points on the CA:TFA commentary that I'm perfectly reminded of by the two images above. Johnston stated that he was very careful to avoid CGI taking away from the drama of two of TFA's most pivotal scenes: Steve's transformation and his plane crash at the end. He deliberately had Steve encased in that chamber so people would see a real guy going in and a real guy coming out and just go with it rather than watch a Hulk-like CG transformation from Steve into Cap.
Similarly he had the plane crash occur off camera so that after the emotional final moments between Steve and Peggy you don't then have this big distracting special effects crash.
If only Zach had thought of that with regard to Pa Kent. It was such a heart tugging scene in STM, and even 36 years later you can watch his death without being distracted by any of the visuals. But looking at the two pics above, I don't see two emotional final moments, I just see one dad on a farm and another in front of a green screen.
He actually calls that scene out specifically on either the DVD or blu-ray T2 commentary as one that could have been done better with CGI today.
