It's not perfect, but he gets a lot of them. (IMHO.) The part that I thought was quite good was just seeing the way he walked and used his hands before you saw his face. I knew it was Kirk.
Just to clarify, it was Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes (the original writers for Star Trek IV) who had the idea of Saavik being pregnant after the Genesis incident. Their script was made with Eddie Murphy in mind to play a character who would later evolve into Dr. Gillian Taylor. It was a quite different script, so Bennett and Meyer rewrote it almost from scratch. They removed the line about Saavik's pregnancy on purpose (I guess with director Leonard Nimoy's blessing). The incident is related in the books "Star Trek Movie Memories" and "The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 Years".
It's a shame that the conversation for this is spread over three threads in three different forums.
Sam is one of the few actors that I really have an intense respect for in terms of his honesty about the acting process. He has such a warmth and genuineness about the struggles of finding the performance and getting it right while acknowledging past actors of a character.It's a shame that the conversation for this is spread over three threads in three different forums.
I posted this in the OTOY thread in Gen Trek. An interview with Sam Witwer where he describes the process of becoming Kirk. he speaks of how important it was to have an actual actor involved in the entire process. It was not simply a process of doning the digital mask. He speaks of how after the first test shots his heart sank because when he saw his performance immediately after the fact, he saw a guy who looked like William Shatner but did not feel like Kirk. He speaks of how he trained his body language to mimic Shatner's and how to make his face while wearing the mask mimic the same expressions that Shatner's Kirk might have in a given situation. It's fascinating stuff.
I haven't watched this interview yet, but this reminds me of a talk I saw on the visual effects involved in with Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One. Guy Henry, who played him, spent plenty of time practicing Peter Cushion's mannerisms and vocal intonations, especially from the original Star Wars, but there was also a lot of hand-animation supplementing the motion-capture of his face, because of things like Henry and Cushing moving their lips differently to make the same syllables when they spoke, totally unconscious and habitual actions that would be nearly impossible to imitate.
No big deal, you just do another take. In fact the fact that there is a certain amount of live filter means you can see immediately how it will look, something that isn’t an option for example with traditional chroma key.
I don't know what the secret sauce is but the Marvel movies seem to have this down with Ant-Man being a stand out. That was in 2015 and yet Indiana Jones looked not great just last year.
CLU was the main antagonist..
What did Pirates of the Caribbean use in Dead Men Tell No Tales?
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I thought he looked great. What thew me off in those scenes wasn't the FX, but in the scenes where it was actually Harrison and not a stunt double, you could tell he wasn't as spry as he would be.
I noticed something similar with the deaged Samuel L Jackson in Captain Marvel. He looked great, but he was sure huffing and puffing when he was running.
