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- Jousting world champion Shane Adams rates eight horseback fight scenes in movies and television, such as "Lord of the Rings," for realism. Adams discusses the accuracy of horseback fight scenes in "Game of Thrones" (2011); "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" (2002), starring Viggo Mortensen and Orlando Bloom; and "John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum" (2019), with Keanu Reeves. He comments on the armor and tactics of cavalry battles in "The Last Duel" (2021), starring Matt Damon and Adam Driver; "Gladiator" (2000), featuring Russell Crowe; and "A Knight's Tale" (2001), with Heath Ledger. Adams also analyzes unconventional riding styles highlighted in Disney's "Mulan" (2020) and "Ben-Hur" (1959).
- The makeup, stunts, special effects, and overall production design of Blade are discussed.
- Urban entrepreneurial efforts start from the ground up. The Town Bizzness series follows Dundeal Ent. as they turn a local idea into a national entertainment empire.
- Tyr Neilsen, the president of the Norwegian Glima Association and senior instructor at the Academy of Viking Martial Arts in Norway, analyzes 11 fight scenes featuring axes and rates them based on their accuracy.
- Acting coach Anthony Gilardi analyzed some of Hollywood's most famous - and infamous - dying scenes. Reviewing movie deaths ranging from great to mediocre to downright terrible, he broke down what went right and wrong in the actors' performances.
- Toby Capwell, the curator of arms and armor at The Wallace Collection in London, reacts to 11 memorable scenes featuring medieval weapons and armor and rates them based on their historical accuracy. Capwell looks at armor and weapons within fantasy franchises, such as Sauron's armor in the battle of Orodruin in "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001). He addresses how helmets in "The Mandalorian" (2019) are influenced by Greek and Corinthian styles. Using artifacts from The Wallace Collection, Capwell addresses the realism of flails and maces as seen in "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003). And he rates how realistic shields and swords are in "Vikings" (2014) and "The Last Kingdom" (2015).
- Since the invention of film, filmmakers have tried to trick viewers into believing that an actor is either shorter or taller than they really are. The most classic techniques are sticking an actor on a platform or having them interact with props built to scale. But those need to be paired with clever camera angles and visual effects. In "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001), director Peter Jackson employed a forced perspective so Gandalf would really look like he was interacting with a hobbit. More complex computer-controlled camera moves and blue-screen compositing helped make the shots more complex and were used further in "The Two Towers" (2002), "The Return of the King" (2003), and the "Hobbit" trilogy (2012 to 2014). Performance capture created even more opportunities for actors to play giants on camera in "Avatar" (2009) and "The BFG" (2016), but creating the proper sense of scale gets trickier when these characters have to interact with normal-sized actors. When playing 8-foot-tall Thanos in "Avengers: Infinity War" (2018) and "Avengers: Endgame" (2019), Josh Brolin wore a cutout on his head to fill the gap. A more sophisticated method used in Marvel's "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" (2022) involved using CG to combine Tatiana Maslany's performance with that of a much taller body double. Now, with "Avatar: The Way of Water" (2022), director James Cameron and the artists at Weta FX figured out some of the most precise and convincing ways yet to size up actors through a combination of floating monitors, virtual cameras, and props.
- Horror films are filled with jump scares, moments that shock and startle viewers as monsters, serial killers, ghosts and even cats pop out of the darkness. But while jump scares are a very common element to include in a scary movie, they don't always work as intended, and often, you might just end up laughing instead of screaming. To find out what goes into creating an effective jump scare we spoke with Rebekah McKendry. a film professor at USC who specializes in horror. What makes certain scenes in "The Conjuring," "Insidious," and "The Exorcist 3" so terrifying while others like in "Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan" fall flat?
- A look at film collectibles (models and kits) and in particular the way Peter Jackson and Weta Workshop decided to use their in-house artists to create a range of film collectibles for the whole trilogy, rather than license that part of the merchandise to a third party.
- Bonus feature highlighting the cast's favorite Garry Marshall film made for the DVD/Blu-ray of Valentine's Day (2010).
- An experimental film has a college student, Bill, fantasizes about a pretty girl around Ithaca college and in trying to understand his environment, Bill has various encounters with an asortment of wierd characters around the campus.
- The bus fight from "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" has been praised as Marvel's best fight sequence ever. The action scene, which is set on a moving bus, took over a year to bring to life. This included reconstructing two real buses to fit cameras inside while making room for actors Simu Liu and Florian Munteanu to fight. Fight coordinator Andy Cheng, famous for his stunt work on Jackie Chan's films, explains the steps needed to stage the fight from the previsualized CGI and rehearsals used to create the action to how to fake a bus's movements.
- How has CGI changed over the last ten years? Many of these movies bring up ethical questions - can you just de-age someone? Bring a dead actor to life with technology? And is there such a thing as using so much CGI that you've actually just made an animated movie? Insider tackles these issues..
- A look at people who keep rats as pets.
- A man coming from city to his village for his vacation. When he come to his village it was night 1am, He is waiting for a rikshaw or a van. He saw a van is coming with a death body, He sit on the van and goes for his village, But some times letter they are filling that something paranormal activities is happening.
- The Kid gets a new dog and adventure of travel with his dog and makes a gang of members in town and goes after bullies with the dog.
- A parody of Watergate featuring the character of President Vixen. Made with hand-drawn still photos.
- Many movies, TV shows, and music videos have called for surreal sequences where the characters are thrown into zero gravity as the room they're in starts to move around them, thus finding themselves walking on the walls and ceilings. It started when Fred Astaire danced on all corners of a room in 1951's "Royal Wedding." A rotating set with a fixed camera attached allowed the actor to dance with no gravity while still keeping his feet to the ground. This technique was applied in similar ways in movies like "Poltergeist" and "High School Musical 3," as well as music videos like Lionel Richie's "Dancing on the Ceiling" and Ariana Grande's "No Tears Left to Cry." Movies like "Inception" innovated by allowing its actors to fight in a rotating hallway with multiple cameras capturing the action. In 2019, the pilot episode of HBO's "Euphoria" used a revolving set to allow its main character, played by Zendaya, to walk on walls. VFX supervisors David Van Dyke and Nhat Phong Tran of Pixomondo told us how the show used everything from motion-control cameras to visual effects to create a scene with not one, but two centers of gravity.
- This short documentary, which is featured on the Blade (1998) DVD, shows us the original ending to the film and an explanation as to why it is not in the final film.
- Nunchuck expert and stuntwoman Thekla Hutyrova rates 11 nunchuck scenes in movies and television for realism, such as "Enter the Dragon" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." Hutyrova has been practicing nunchucks, or nunchaku, for over 18 years and is a martial arts world champion. Hutyrova discusses the accuracy of nunchuck scenes in "Enter the Dragon" (1973), starring Bruce Lee; "Kick-Ass 2" (2013); "Barry" (2019); and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (1990). She also comments on the portrayal of nunchuck showmanship in "Game of Death" (1978); "Legend of the Fist" (2010), starring Donnie Yen; and "Ip Man 4: The Finale" (2019). Hutyrova analyzes the practicality of nunchucks in "Warrior" (2020), with Andrew Koji; "Jumanji: The Next Level" (2019); "Black Dynamite" (2009), starring Michael Jai White; and "Lady Bloodfight" (2016).
- Time travel, what if it were possible. 4 people (someone from the Academy Film Archive AMPAS, two Psychotherapist and someone from the American Film Institute) explain "why" and "how" to travel in time, both forward and backward in time. Why do people want to travel through time? "What if - " It also describes how travel through time works in different movies. This is done on the basis of films such as "The Time Machine", "Back to the Furure", "Dr. Who" and many others.
- Tobias Capwell, the curator of arms and armor at The Wallace Collection in London, reacts to seven memorable scenes featuring medieval weapons and armor and rates them based on their historical accuracy.
- Musical documentary records Earl Scruggs, Bill Monroe, Scruggs' son Randy, Doc Watson and his son Merle playing and singing together in informal settings. Also includes performances by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, The Byrds and others
- In 2018, Rebecca Sugar's "Steven Universe" featured both the first LGBTQ wedding and the first LGBTQ marriage proposal in a kids' animated TV show. And in 2020, Benson from "Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts" was the first kids' animated character to directly identify themselves as gay. These are groundbreaking achievements in LGBTQ representation, but it took a long time and a lot of hard work to get here. Here's a look back at how LGBTQ characters in kids' shows evolved from Hays Code-era stereotypes and queer-coded villains.
- A romantic comedy about a high school bully who looses the will to bully. Loosely based on Henry IV, Hal only has one week to get his will back or the school will fall to chaos and the only person who can help him is Emily, the nerd who hates him most.
- From people who harvest giant blocks of marble to master Lego builders to people who can make babies cry in movies, there are a lot of fascinating and unexpected jobs out there. But just because you haven't heard of them, that doesn't mean you haven't seen their work on the big screen, on your plate, or in your blankets. Check out these 20 jobs you probably never knew existed.
- Based on the site wtfisupwithmylovelife.com, aims to explore the intricacies of modern romance.
- Roel Konijnendijk, who has a doctorate in ancient history and is a lecturer at the University of Oxford's New College, rates 10 ancient-warfare scenes in movies and shows for realism in terms of military formations, tactics, movements, weaponry and the marital arts prowess of the film's stars.
- The story of three serious skiers, to whom skiing is a way of life. They found a soul mining town, tucked away in the mountains. Ever skier dreams of such a place, a ghost town, a mountain and endless days of perfect powder ski.