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Post by bubbles on Mar 10, 2005 6:23:31 GMT
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Mar 10, 2005 13:22:07 GMT
This quote I found intersting 'Tripods calling in the distance'. If this is correct, its something else to add to the list of things SS is using from the book. . . Good on ya SS, nice to see you have kept this in.
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Post by Thunder Child on Mar 10, 2005 20:52:36 GMT
Excellent! I find it a terrifying image, that great machine rampaging through the crowd, picking up men, walking around while this defening howl rolls through the air! it's a very unearthly howl "alloooo"...
creepy!
johan
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Post by themotile on Mar 10, 2005 22:10:01 GMT
I got this from a confirmed extra.....
Dear the_motile--- The tripod that whammed into the ground (for whatever reason), impinging on the terrain, was crashed at an angle so the belly side/ hatch area could be seen as the crowd ventured toward it. I would guess that the top was about 20 to 30 feet off the ground (crew had to climb up to do various controls and reset activity. It was nestled in a pile of debris. The surface was generally a burnished/heat affected looking metal alloy of some sort...hard to describe---bronze/pewter/stainless steel hybrid? Don't know what the pristine Tripods would look like really. Very cool hatch design... kind of interlocking "leaves" like a camera lens, but uneven sizes and shapes (I think there were 3 overlapping sections). Okay, here is the only SUPER SPECIAL FOR MOTILE EYES ONLY detail...when the hatch opened, a large slosh of what I took to be (maybe) hydraulic fluid belched out of the opening and onto the ground/debris. I was like a thicker goopy version of anti-freeze and it was fairly bright irridescent orange....at least that's what it looked like as we trudged through the leftover puddles. ( Either that or I'm lying to make you happy.) Really, even though I don't know you-- I do wish you could have been there. It was good, dirty, wet, cold fun and we got paid and fed. What a deal! This isn't much, but I hope it's somewhat entertaining as I hav appreciated your posts on this nutty site. See ya later, alligator. (Do they say that in the UK? I'm old and it's from my grade school days.....The response is: After while, crocodile.
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Post by BrutalDeluxe on Mar 10, 2005 23:11:44 GMT
Thanx for the info Motile!
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Post by dudalb on Mar 10, 2005 23:45:38 GMT
"Don't know what the pristine Tripods would look like really."
And Spielberg will do his best to keep anybody from knowing what a prisitne Tripod looks like until the film opens...the curiosity factor is a major selling point here...
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Post by DaveJames on Mar 11, 2005 1:14:17 GMT
Hi all, I'm new here.
And I agree. I don't think we saw much of the dinos in Jurassic Park until the movie came out either, right? As much as I want to see the tripods, I really hope Spielberg is successful in keeping it a secret. I want to be surprised in the theater.
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Post by HTT on Mar 11, 2005 12:13:53 GMT
[glow=purple,2,300]With JP, there was a lot of dino shots well before the movie opened, especially of the T-Rex. Rexy's foot squishing into the mud was one of the teaser shots well before the movie opened, and I think only the velociraptors were kept under wraps (I definately remember the herd stampede scene shown well before the movie opened). Peter jackson used the same sort of short for Fellowship, with the Balrog foot.
I'd like to see SS put in some form of quick shot of a small part of the tripods/cylinders as a teaser, just to spark some excitement. At the moment, we're just getting images that could come from any old action film. Pendragon had a quick glimpse of a tripod - and I think SS needs something similar to give the trailer the edge it needs.[/glow]
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Post by Slick2097 on Mar 11, 2005 12:21:27 GMT
I'd be pretty certain that the trailer will contain something about the tripods, a foot crashing down on something etc ..
Not long to wait anyway ... only a few months till the picture is out (although later on in july in the UK :/ )
Should be a good film, I hope.
Slick2097.
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Post by themotile on Mar 12, 2005 10:06:44 GMT
My friend who was an extra in the Tripod/hatch opening scene is sending me a "shoot sheet" from the day, it has details about the scenes and call times plus a cast list, as soon as I get it I will post anything worth posting!
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