NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/rec/motorcyc/44857

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From: [e-mail] (R. Craig Dodson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: That T2 motorcycle jump... Not real, just magic
Date: 21 Jan 1993 21:19:07 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
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>
> "Wire removal has figured in numerous big-budget films.  The zero-gravity
> assasination sequence in Star Trek VI used wire removal as well as
> computer graphics to create the floating blobs of "blood" that spilled
> from the floating Klingon victims.  The slow-motion sequence in Terminator
> 2 in which Arnold Schwarzenegger jumps a motorcycle off a bridge and
> into the dry bed of the Los Angeles River was not slow motion at all;
> the bike was held in a bulky steel cage, suspended from thick cables,
> and lowered on a crane at about the speed you see on the screen.  Then
> all the support hardware was removed (by computer)."  SI Winter 1993
>
>
If that's the case then how come you can *clearly* see wires attached to
Arnie after his "tanker surfing" scene ? You know, the part where he's riding
on the cab of the tanker as it's sliding on its side approaching the steel
mill ? As the tanker hits the door and comes to a halt, you can easily
make out the wires attached to him as he "flies" to the ground.

Sloppy editing ? Ran out of money doing the moto scene ?

Enquiring minds want to know . . .

Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
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