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several of them actually had little monitors inside . linked to cameras , so that they had a good idea of what they were doing and where hey were going
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I'd heard that. I saw a video that explained that the Skeksis costumes were basically just a cage with some controls on the inside for the hands and eyes. They were showing a restoration on the Chamberlain saying he'd been kept somewhere with a lot of sunlight which destroyed the hands
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Yes , their carapace was really there to hide the performer
At least one of the skeksi was in the front window of the moving image museum , in london , years ago as part of a jim henson exhibition
that couldn't have done it much good !
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I think it might have been the Chamberlain. They said that it had been in a museum in London so I think it's the same one. Here's the vid that mentions it. I think it's a shame they didn't show any pf the actual restoring but it was interesting to see
www.youtube.com/watch?v=92BgIN…
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It could well have been the chamberlain
He was high up in the front window a bit wasted as the Dark crystal was under represented in the exhibition and you couldn't get close to him , where he was placed in the window
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That seems a real waste, and you would think they'd know enough to store the puppet properly so as not to ruin it.
But it looked like the rest of him held up pretty well. I suppose the face was made from better stuff
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Rick baker mentions that the team who made the Dark crystal puppets , helped him on the apes for Greystoke and they pushed the limits of how flexible foam rubber could be , by adding more air and adjusting the chemical mix
but that led to a foam rubber, that perished in record time
Th foam on the face is thicker , so it may have lasted longer
Surely they kept the original molds for the faces?
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I imagine the air might also help a bit with the weight too, but it makes sense that it would also make it more perishable. As with most processes, it's one step forward and two back.
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It was very flexible apparently
So I think R Baker felt that getting some good fx on film was more important than the masks lasting forever
i notice his american werewolf change -o heads still look perfect , because they were made from an elastic silicon material
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Makes sense, but it's also a shame that none were able to survive the end of the filming as they make nice souvenirs for the movie. And an example of how they made them back in the day. There's a lot that can be learned from some of them on how they were able achieve the effects they used at the time
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I suppose it's all about , what they capture on film , rather than the preservation of the make-ups or masks themselves
Only stan winstone seemed to go out of his way to create permanent copies of his creatures etc in resin
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I suppose I'm also a bit of a sentimentalist and the idea a keepsake long after the movie is done is just a nice idea. Like a hard copy of the movie, but it's also nice that it gives you an idea of the scale they used as well.
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That's back to the fact that digital effects seem to leave no real legacy
The Jim Henson exhibitions I've seen are displaying the" actual " Skeksis or Fizzgig , that was seen in the film
Fluffy from Creepshow still exists as a displayed suit
With digital effects , there's none of that
i stopped collecting cinefex magazine , because the behind the scenes stills , consists of guys pointing at pc monitors
Very little goes wrong with a digital effect , so there's no funny anecdotes !
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That's true. Like Doug Jones walking blind on stilts and speaking Spanish in Pan's Labyrinth sounds like both a funny and difficult task to undergo. And poor Bruce Spencer on a horse talking about how Peter Jackson hates him. XD
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seeing james woods totally pissed off , whilst standing inside a hollowed out settee , being made up for Videodrome's belly slit scene would never happen in this day and age of dodgy cgi
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I remember that scene. Videodrome was a weird one!
Cronenberg has a knack for that kind of film.
But practical effects are for the most part head and shoulders above CGI, but only if done right
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Cronenberg is a true original , but apart from the fly and Crash , I'm not struck on his movies
Videodrome seems more confused than surreal
I did like Crash though, it was perverse in a good way
the idea of getting sexually aroused by car crashes is kind of bizarre
Grace Jones song , "pull up to the bumper" was inspired by the same book
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It is an odd premise for someone to get turned on by such a bizarre thing.
Videodrome left me questioning reality, which I suppose was part of the point. But Existenz was more critical in that ability.
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