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The prosthetic make-up Jim Carrey wore took 3 hours to apply. Carrey felt so horribly confined and uncomfortable in the latex skin he needed counseling from a Navy SEAL who taught him torture-resistance techniques.

How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

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To shoot the spacewalk scenes a LED screen was folded into a box, the actor was put inside, and the light from the screen was used to light the actor. That way, instead of moving either Bullock or Clooney in the middle of static lights, the projected image moved while they stayed still. The “light box”, key to the spacewalk scenes was a nine-foot cube just big enough for one actor.

Gravity (2013)

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Thank you to Rita for the video link.

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YES! — tanya b.

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The opening scene was filmed over the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland.

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

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Long Day by Daniel Gelinas

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Christopher Nolan asked Aaron Eckhart not to perform any tics or slurping noises as Two-Face to make the character less “showy”.

The Dark Knight (2008)

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The sound of the snow swirling on Hoth was produced by recording surf sounds and then alternately increasing and decreasing the volume.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

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69,262 traditional “cels” and 381 colors were used for this film.

Castle in the Sky (1986)

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Man oh man oh man.

I’m pumped for Godzilla.

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A document of exceptional historical value: Ray Bradbury's screenplay for John Huston's 1956 film Moby Dick [pdf] (NOTE: For educational purposes only). Unseen for 50 years, Ray Bradbury’s screenplay has been published with an introduction by William Touponce, Ph.D., director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and an internationally known Bradbury scholar.

Above: Ray Bradbury (right) working in Ireland with John Huston on the screenplay of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1956). Mr. Bradbury was a popular writer, having already published The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953) when acclaimed film director John Huston asked him to write a screenplay for Moby Dick late in 1953. In fact Fahrenheit 451, perhaps his most famous book, was published while Bradbury was in Ireland working on the screenplay. According to Touponce, Bradbury was a fan of Huston’s films and Huston was a fan of Bradbury’s work, including the short story “The Fog Horn” (collected in The Golden Apples), for which Bradbury had done a lot of research about the sea.

Once he read Moby Dick, Bradbury agreed to write a screenplay for Huston. During a meeting to discuss the screenplay, Bradbury informed John Huston that regarding Melville’s novel, he had “never been able to read the damned thing.” According to the biography The Bradbury Chronicles, there was much tension and anger between the two men during the making of the film, allegedly due to Huston’s bullying attitude and attempts to tell Bradbury how to do his job, despite Bradbury being an accomplished writer. After several months of work in the British Isles, Bradbury submitted a working script for Moby Dick to Huston in early 1954.

By the time that the film came out in 1956, Huston had listed himself as co-author of the screenplay. Bradbury protested Huston’s action to the Screen Writers Guild and initially was successful in having Huston removed as a co-author but the powerful filmmaker had the decision overturned. After the success of the film, Bradbury was asked to do many screenplays based on the novels of others, but declined because he wanted to devote himself to writing novels. Later in his career, however, during the 1980’s, he wrote all the screenplays for the Ray Bradbury Theatre. While the authorship controversy kept the screenplay for Moby Dick from the public, Bradbury has always listed it as one of his works. Huston died in 1987.

People come to you and they say, “Boy, we love your work. We love this and we want to buy it.” Then, as soon as they buy it, the teeth come out. You become not the father of the work, but the stepfather. All of a sudden, you’re an outsider, a villain. I have often said to these people, “Look, I’ll do the script free for you if you’ll shoot my mistakes instead of yours. My mistakes are better.” —Ray Bradbury

Touponce says that Bradbury felt strongly about having the screenplay published under his name in his own lifetime. “It was Huston’s film, but the language was all Bradbury,” said Touponce. Besides original screenplays, such as It Came from Outer Space (1953), Moby Dick is the sole novel which was not his own that Bradbury adapted for film. “I know that Ray Bradbury was very proud of his work on this screenplay and feels this work borders on literature. Unlike plays, screenplays usually don’t shape up as literature. But Bradbury’s Moby Dick has a poetic style that can be read as quasi-literary,” said Touponce, who wrote his doctoral dissertation on Bradbury more than 20 years ago and has devoted his career to the study of Bradbury’s work. In 2004, he and Jon Eller, Ph.D., professor of English at the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, published Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction with The Kent State University Press. It provides an overview of Bradbury’s career of over 50 years. —Science fiction giant’s screenplay for Moby Dick ends half century of ‘invisibility’

Recommended reading, viewing, and listening:

Moby Dick: the Screenplay by Ray Bradbury [Amazon]

Ray Bradbury concerning Moby Dick script

Playboy Interview: Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury: 'It's Lack That Gives Us Inspiration'

Ray Bradbury’s Impact on Movies, from Huston and Truffaut to Spielberg

A Writer’s Life: Ray Bradbury on writing and the importance of the subconscious

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Extraordinary.

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Growing up, my most fond memories was visiting abandoned places with my brother. To this day, if opportunity presents itself, I bring my camera and take a few pictures. These are not my work ofcourse, but I hope you enjoy the visual beauty and maybe it brings fond memories of your own adventures.

Part II:

Abandoned Construction of Nuclear Power Plant. Photo By brokenview

Chatillon Car Graveyard in Belgium

Jiancing Historic Trail in Taipingshan National Forest in Taiwan. Photo By T.-C

Abandoned theme park in nara dreamland, japan. Photo by michaeljohngrist

Clock tower

Old shack in a snow field, Idaho. Photo By James Neeley

Abandoned terminal at Nicosia Airport. Photo By eyesfutur

Milan, New Orleans. Photo By JustUptown

Abandoned church in autumn. Photo by *CainPascoe

Abanonded steam engine in Uyuni train cemetery, Bolivia. Photo By jimmyharris