That makes sense.
Though I still wonder at the cost of flying your actors back and forth, especially before deregulation. If they’d ever put the rest of McCloud out on region 1 DVD, I could do some more research!
I believe it’s in “Beneath the Planet of the Apes” where Zaius and the gorilla general are in a sauna discussing war plans. First bit of funny is that they both appear to just be wearing off the shelf ape costumes for their body suits. Second bit of funny is when the general moves to the foreground of the shot to pour water on the hot coals… his ape suit sleeve rides up and you can see his regular human arm underneath.
It the bit where “he’s clearly gone” you can see his jacket but it sure does look like a dummy in those other shots, either that or he was told to stay rod still on pain of death.
It could also be left over archive footage filmed for some other episode they used to fill out timing. IIRC McCloud often had a “uniform” of a cowboy hat, suede coat, and jeans, which would have lend to some inter-swapability.
There is also the fact that the transformer in the museum has been there a long time, so when he transforms he is old and has a cane and a beard… but he’s a goddamned robot! Why would he grow a beard?
Although you’ve ignored my previous response to you, I explained in post #78 that you are wrong about this.
An Gadaí has confirmed this as well in post #103.
And no, they didn’t fake Goldblum being there with someone else wearing his jacket and leaning forward. You can barely see it if you’re looking for it and freeze the video at that spot.
If Goldblum wasn’t really there they could have just hoped no one noticed or framed the shot so he wouldn’t have been visible anyway.
I found the clip on YouTube and I was wrong about something - it wasn’t DC/Smithsonian, the location was the Virginia Air and Space museum.
However, when they entered the museum the surrounding country was green and lush… and when they left it, the surrounding country was far more arid and brown. :rolleyes:
Good call on the robot with a beard and a cane. I must have missed that because I was still focusing on the fact that they teleported 2,000 miles or something.
The Incredible Disappearing Fredo. At 3:04 in this clip, Fredo is sitting next to Tom Hagan. A few close-ups occur and, 30 seconds later @ 3:34, we see the table and everybody is still where they were… except Fredo.
Even more curious, Fredo didn’t leave the table until his older brother told him, “Go on, get me a drink. Go on!” At least this gave Tom Hagen plenty of elbow room.
He is leaning forward and the back of his leather jacket is clearly visible.
Also, in HD it sure looks like the lips of the “dummy” breathe.
I think you need to let this “screw up” go.
:smack:
I didn’t even catch that.
Just like the life-sized, breathing Jeff Goldblum dummy in JP, this one has been reclassified as “not a mistake.”
I still think it’s a dummy but I’ll concede that it’s not clear.
The jacket in your picture is indeed the back of Ian Malcolm, but I seriously question that it’s Jeff Goldblum’s back. If it is then I’d love to be present at the film shoot when Steven Spielberg was giving direction:
Spielberg to Sam Neill: "Ok Sam, let me set this up for you. This is the scene immediately preceding the big reveal of our dinosaurs to the audience for the first time. I need you to be the audience proxy. Show as much shock and awe as you can and really dial up their expectations to 11 because when we reveal the dinosaurs in a few seconds we’re going to deliver a 15! This is an iconic scene that sets the tone for the whole movie. We need everything you have - go as big as you can!
Sam Neill: Gotcha - go big or go home!
Steven: Exactly - now Jeff, I know you’re an A-List actor and we paid you a lot of money to be here with us on set today - so while Sam is acting his ass off I want you to lean forward really far so the audience can’t see your face.
Jeff: I thought you said go big or go home - is there some way I can convey a sense of wonder and excitement to the audience too?
Steven: What do you have in mind?
Jeff: I could do jazz hands (Jeff Goldblum demonstrates leaning really far over with hands shaking in the air)
Steven: Hmmmmm, that’s not really working for me, what else do you have?
Jeff: I once played an excited rock in Hamlet - I could do that again
Steven: Could you portray a super excited rock? We want to go big!
Jeff: I’ll be the best damned rock you’ve ever seen - you won’t even know I’m there!
Steven: We have our scene - Action!
There are so many gaffes in Gladiator that if you turn them into a drinking game, you’ll be dead before Marcus Aurelius.
That said, it never fails to make me giggle when Russell Crowensius is choosing a helmet to hide his face from the emperor, and one of the choices is the Sutton Hoo helmet.
Did I miss Sonny’s phantom punch in The Godfather?
Since you haven’t mentioned it showing up in any other shots, do you think they spent all the time and money to create such a lifelike dummy for just these 2 shots alone? Do you think before production started JG said, “Sorry, even though I’ll totally be on set in the jeep with the other main characters for several shots, I’m totally not going to be available for those 2 specific shots, so let’s schedule an extra day for you to take a life cast of my face and put in on a mannequin.” If he really wasn’t there, wouldn’t it have been a lot easier and cheaper and quicker to just have his stand in take his place in the jeep and then just block him in such a way that you can’t see any of his face?
And again, you are, apparently, the only person on the internet making this claim. Does that say anything to you?
My thinking is that the scene was filmed over 2 different shooting times - once with Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, and Sam Neill present. Another with Richard Attenborough, Laura Dern, and Sam Neill present. A later shot (I’m no longer interested in finding the time) shows Richard Attenborough in his jeep, Laura Dern and Sam Neill getting out of theirs, and no Jeff Goldblum present. But this whole debate has stopped being fun. I’ve acknowledged in every on of my posts that I could be wrong - and I very well could be.
One minor screw-up I noticed was in The Two Towers.
When Gandalf first enters Theoden’s hall, the position of his staff changes from being held perpendicular to the ground to being held parallel between shots - you see it one way when he’s filmed from the front, and the other when he’s filmed from the back.
Well, it is a magic staff after all. 
That’s what she said.
Gehrig did leave games during his streak. And at the end, he called it quits before the game, not during one.
(Sam Goldwyn took plenty of liberties with the facts to make the movie ‘more interesting,’ in his opinion. Send me an e-mail at montgomerydou55@hotmail.com and I’ll tell you more.)
Just for accuracy’s sake and in case it does make a difference to you, JG is indeed in the shot where Dern and Neil get out of the jeep (and Attenborough is standing in his jeep in the background). We see him lean forward twice to get a better look at the dinosaur.
But I see that you say you’re not having fun, I’m not trying to belabor the point, only offering it up if it makes a difference to you.