Posted by <matdgr81 on 01/24/06 02:40

I thought I had read somewhere when EWS first came out that the masked
figures were digitally put in. Anyone else remeber that or am I just crazy?

Matt Myrick


"Matthew Dickinson" <stalepie@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>
> Mat Hunt wrote:
>> It's unlikely that SK "shot those scenes knowing they might need
>> altering" or that he "shot the masked figures himself". They were
>> simply a way for Warners to placate the MPAA while technically
>> reassuring everyone else that the film wasn't actually cut.
>
> Well, somebody had to get out a camera and some very similar-looking
> robed and unclothed figures and film them, walking a camera past them,
> in about the same motion as was done in the "uncensored" version.
> Normally it's not easy to superimpose people onto the middle of the
> screen without making it look out of place and in the uncensored
> version there are gaps where the people conveniently fit.
>
> Not that this is important, or anything.
>

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