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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2022
- Car crashes in movies like “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” (2021) may look random and chaotic. But pulling off destruction that spectacular on camera requires hyper-tailored prep work - both on the cars themselves, and on other set elements. We visited JEM FX to find out how its team of effects wizards primes cars to get destroyed spectacularly on camera.
Taking a Buick LeSabre as our case study, JEM’s technicians showed us how they score a car’s roof pillars and replace its door hinges to set it up for optimal wreckage. Then we saw how the weakened car responded to various forms of destruction, from having a 3,000-pound weight dropped on its roof to getting its doors whacked off with a forklift.
The team at JEM also walked us through some highlights of their automobile effects work on “Shang-Chi” (2021), “Bright” (2017), “Taken 3” (2014), and “Velvet Buzzsaw” (2019).
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Note to self: don't buy used car from a Hollywood effects department, it might have a weakened roof*.
car has a room?
@@mehere3013 captain obvious here in case this is a serious question: it's probably a typo and was meant to be "roof"
@@hardy16able for a second I thought it was maybe the European way of saying cabin 😂
@@mehere3013 Only in Hollywood.
Lol
That porsche 944 getting crushed breaks my heart
😢😭
I saw that too! It's sad. Hollywood doesn't understand!
I feel u brother
unless it was rotted underneath
it was not rotted. 944's body is galvanized so its pretty rust resistant
Love how the forklift drivers gets to operate his forklift the way every forklift driver WISHES they could.
i am a forklift driver .. and you are right !!!
Recruiter: "So, why do you want this job?"
Technician: "I want to make the engineers who design the safety features in cars cry."
You're hired xD jkjk
Stupid comment!
"see those structural supports?"
"yeah?"
"they're only cosmetic, we don't need em."
@@A_Buster9693 I don't know if I should be proud or ashamed but after fixing my pos car every 2 months for the last 18 months, this is the technique I'm now at when "repairing" things. There's less and less parts on my car as time goes on.. Can't break if it's not there or working in the first place! That's how you save money! 😬😂👌 but to be fair if I get into a serious accident I'm dead either way considering how rickety the car is. I've broken 2 bolts by leaning onto a part gently to get a better angle to get the spanner in
LMAO
The force required to throw that shipping container is truly incredible, and to throw those cars with the cables, these guys are playing with some serious bits of equipment.
It's empty.. won't that heavy imo
@@cobaltblue2756 That 3700kg shipping container went roughly 6 meters into the air in 1 second. That comes out to 22,200 newtons of force. This does not include the force required to move the two rams. Of course, these calculations are based on estimating the values from the youtube video, using relative measurements, so they may not be 100% accurate. That said, there is still a terrifying amount of energy in the system.
Someone else can take a crack at figuring out the nitrogen tank volume, pressure, and valve requirements to create that much power. All I know is that if a pressurized nitrogen system fails, you'd be advised to be very, very far away.
I love how the trailer skids to a stop and the container flies up and keeps rolling for ages. Classic action movie physics defying 😂😂😂
what if something crushes one of the workers? or random people on the street
@@stanleybochenek1862 what kind of dumb question is that. Obviously they don't have people near any super dangerous stunts lol, and they're meticulously planned so nothing would ever go wrong in the first place. Only possibility for an an accident is some random idiot wandering to a place he shouldn't be, and no one would have to notice or they'd shut the stunt down instantly. Sorry if that was a genuine question and not just some cheeky remark, wasn't trying to be mean but if you were serious it comes across as mean lol
I literally was just watching Shang chi and was wondering how they did that scene set in San Fran. That's crazy it was on location and all real luxury cars 🤦🏽♂️
it's replicas just like in fast & furious. they make fake cars that looks like the real deal.
Destroying an i8 for the sake of filming makes me wanna cry.
I think there is some deception even about those cars. They sometimes have damaged cars that can't drive or cars defective or masked in one way or another. I suppose it also depends on what budget they have and how they want to spend it.
@@andrew_owens7680 oh yea, at the very least it's been gutted for all its expensive parts
Facts... anybody like my music?? Discover me... 🙏🏽💯🔥✊🏽
It's comforting knowing that cars don't crush as easy as Hollywood portrays.
Ikr
All cars do crush if the right amount of pressure and distance or speed of where certain object falls from is added though. For example I saw a video of a man being crushed by a huge boulder that fell from a mountain 300 ft in the air weighting almost 600 pounds on the side of the road into his car. It was a mess
Hollywood is all LIE.
Mercifully they also don't explode as easily
@@spartanalphamode2987 okay cool, who asked?
Seeing those old cars that I like gave me pain 💀
Cry more
@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW Cope harder.
@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW little mr took it personal for no reason
It was a relief to hear that at least some of the time they made replica panels instead of destroying the originals
Mine is the complete opposite lol the cars are very old so dont really care much if it was a new fancy car then same i would cry for eternity
What a shame so many classic cars where destroyed :(
Yea they don't care
Same can be said when people throw away old cars just because their granddad died, or because they just don't like a certain brand.
A lot of them are replicas built on a similar chassis.
@@Evan-ff3mm I sure hope so
@@NikoBellaKhouf2 Doubt it, the companies are not going to put in the time and money to build a replica that is a background car for like 3 seconds
It's fascinating that all these crashes are real🤯
Good to know real car is stronger than the ones in movies 🤣
Ikr
0:58 that dude is stripping away more than just chunks of support from the car. He's also stripping away his hearing operating that grinder inside that car. Doing stuff like that when I was his age is the reason I am hearing impaired now. Its a real tragedy how little Hollywood cares for the health of the people that make the magic happen.
i have used a grinder like that for 30 years and my hearing is still good . i'm 62 we do tests every year for hearing by medical professionals. i rarely used ear plugs or muffs. face shield almost always though.
@@ronblack7870 lucky you.
I was thinking the same thing, he's wearing his safety short sleeve and baseball cap lmfao
I would be far worried about using grinder with dismantled cutting disk guard. Guy will get piece of sharpnel in his eye one day.
The land of the free, the country with the limited impossibilities. I live in Germany, and your boss would absolutely freak out on you, letting yourself be filmed working without proper safety equipment. It would be a blow to the reputation of a company to see their workers unprotected in a video.
Made me wonder what protocols are in place to make sure a weakened car is never accidentally sold to the public if it doesn't end up getting used.
I assume they would be commissioned to be destroyed /sold to a prop agency or stuck in storage
Most cars that Hollywood uses are cars that are deemed destroyed by insurance. Those cars were meant to be recycled. Like Flood Damage looks good on the outside but nothing good on the inside.
Title carries a category I would bet.
@@jfeeble Not sure what that is. Like salvage or junk?
Note to self strip used cars and inspect edges
So basically a real life BeamNG Drive team
All these classics getting destroyed makes me sad
the last part was my favorite. "Everything we do defy physics, but we get paid to do it."
“Cars don’t always just explode on impact” - I would argue that they rarely do
Except for a Telsa lol
The fastest I've seen a vehicle explode or burn after a crash took about 3 minutes, when I was watching a demolition derby. A pickup in the derby rammed another car, and smoke was visible above the hood about 30 seconds afterwards. Open flames didn't come until a few minutes later. Most cars and trucks that blow up instantly in a crash need an accelerant
You might be a little young to remember the Pinto.
@@lisafish1449 I've seen them around, including that weird looking van version they put out at one point. The Pinto was also used as a basis for a flying car called the Mizar, if you know anything about how planes land and the primary design issue with the Pinto then you can imagine how well it worked out
@@fahrenheit2530 yoikes!
When you go to a movie it's for fun, not necessarily realism.
Cars blowing up or flipping or ramming into a helicopter is fun.
Look buddy, the last time I rammed into a helicopter during a high speed chase, it wasn't fun at all! Luckily I was able to do a salto followed by a pike during my dismount from the dismount from the landing skids to get into position to ride down a stair railing into the bad guys that were chasing me while shooting at them with guns in both hands. It could have ended badly!
@@andrew_owens7680 😄😄😆
Facts. Lol 😉🤟
i guess lol
Live Free or Die Hard: Ramps a car into a helicopter through a toll booth.
I died a little bit inside during the bus scene in Shang-Chi where all those luxury cars got demolished
Thats what I was thinking :(. Especially the BMW i8. It’s probably not a favorite of many but it looks beautiful to me. Seeing a $100,000+ car crushed like that was painful. I was hoping they would say it was a sedan made to look like it.
@@green29373 I think someone in the comments said those were replicas, I was so relieved
Sometimes they buy totalled cars and fix them enough so they still look good for the camera, plus they normally have everything valuable inside removed.
@@ALZHEM so those cars in the bus scene could be previously wrecked cars but "repaired"?
Why to worry about pieces of scrap, you won't likely own during your lifetime?
Seeing that 944 destroyed is really sad
I love how the destruction in Taken 3 is real but the way it was shot and the trash fast cutscenes made sure it looks fake.
Yeah i hate those constant quick flashes
It’s like : what do they had to ruin the practical effects like this ?
They did the same with Tom Cruises HALO jump in Mission Impossible.
The guy genuinely did the jump but then they added a load of GCI weather and other crap so it looked green screen
@@garethbattersby That shot didn’t need any additions since it was done for real. They messed up there.
@@garethbattersby it didn't look that bad in post. Plus it made it all the more intense.
I see that 944 😭😭
Don’t think they think they can get away with crushing it like that 😡
Looks so professional running a angle grinder without the explosion cover on the grinder and without ear-protection
It hurts to see a w126 being crushed like that for a scene
I felt more bad for that poor buick lesabre than I did for the i8
So did i oddly enough.. And being English i don't pay much attention to buicks... But i kinda felt bad for it
also the porsche 944
The poor camry too
Director: So how many shots do you want to use for the crash scene?
Taken 3 Editor: Yes
Dated UA-cam comment format.
"None of it makes sense, but we get paid to do it."
With the biggest F in grin on his face.
Just shows how safe cars are in (most) crashes.
Yeah.
Well, the magic of movies -I studied film and it’s always perplexing the lengths these people will go to , to get that brilliant shot in a minimal take !
It’s a solid industry unlike the poor vehicles that meet their fate this way 😂
I honestly thought this shot was done in a lot not on location. That's crazy. SFs streets are so small and steep. So much could have gone wrong. That prep is really amazing
It's kinda sad seeing some of these cars being destroyed beyond recognition, like that red Porsche or that grey f150
Also that white suburban .
Really.. that white Mercedes sedan too
I'm the only person who cared for the 300c it seemed lol
@@lukedavis436 nope I'm there with ya
Just cars lol
I can't imagine being a stunt driver and being like, "ok! Time to drive this car I'm inside of off a ramp and into a wall! Don't forget to press the button to detonate the gas bomb"
Good to know JEM FX doesn't care about their employees: no guard on the angle grinder, no hearing protection, no gloves, no face shield, no respiratory protection. You would think the shop manager would make sure OSHA was followed before filming.
I appreciate practical effect so much more than CGI
Man, reminds me of the stuff that the mythbusters would do
Imagine the camera man forgets to press the record button 😂
"Hey! Yeah, uh, we forgot to put a new memory card in..."
Now that's a fun job!! Might be exhausting sometimes but definitely fun
looks like a dream job although destroying special things like that i8 or 944 would hurt a little inside
They not real
@@thormueller Did you even watch the video? Real vehicles, real destruction.
When The Green Hornet (2011) was made, there were 27 1964 and 65 Chrysler Imperials customized into the Hornet's ride, Black Beauty. Only 2 survived.
@@dalethelander3781 for example the i8 and the 944 were replica cars so technically they did destroy them they only destroyed fake cars
@@kokaworu6263
How do you know they were replica cars?
Amazing talented folks that set up these vehicles. I always think of the extra pressure on camera operators that everything was captured correctly, properly exposed, and in-focus etc.
That poor squarebody burb looked like a good project truck too
2:27 that beautiful red porche 😪😪 rip
2:05 RIP Buick, was a good bubbly boi
Use a face shield with that cutoff wheel 😟
Wow that Buick they cut up is exactly what I drive every day! Same color too.
No guard in place on the grinder and no face shield. Yikes. OSHA would have a field day.
Bruh they really totaled i8s like they were 90s corollas 🤦♂️
Bro who cares about the i8
Shit's still in production
i fuckin died when they destroyed that 944 behind it
love cars actually only oldtimers, muscle cars. Yeah I'm a woman and love cars. Born 1972, My grandfather was a car builder. I'm from the Netherlands and he knew everything from ' Citroën ' snook cars. I always saw him work in the garage with my uncle. Mom was a teen mom so my family is not that old. I don't see anyone of them these days, grandpa died in 2005. I love mustangs the most' 67' till 79' after that it was kind of gone for me. Generally I think: give me the 70s back! Half 80s was fun. I know the lies were already there but for me, that time was the best I've seen! It's just in my blood loving cars.
Lovely vid & channel!
So many great cars lost to movie making
These guys are the true magicians of the movies
Me just needing a car to drive:
Plz stop. Can I have a working one
Meanwhile there's people in desperate need of a car 😂
As a car enthusiastic this hurts me 🥶
yeah bro, that shang-chi scene was hard
@@skybirdprojects5489 no doubt
That innocent i8 🥺 hope they atleast used a salvaged title cars for this 😅
Osha probably visited that shop after seeing the worker using the grinder with minimal personal protective equipment. Also the debris flying around on his clothes and skin.
Truly a creative and skilled line of work, very cool
The BMW hurts me.
The precision makes me love engineering more. You guys are amazing
Some of the older cars being destroyed make me sad haha
Awesome. They deserve to get recognition for their work. Otherwise, most people think it's all about CGI.
It should all be CGI
@@filenotfound__3871 why then it wouldn't look as cool
@@IeeIee778 no in fact, they have more controll over cgi than over real stuff, cgi could in fact look better
@@filenotfound__3871 it’s harder to blend a cgi car hitting a real explosive than it is to simply digitally remove some wires pulling a real car into a real explosive with the real car you don’t have to worry about the lighting or the way the car reacts to the explosion like you would with a cgi car
@@gtaperson7923 Keyword harder,, missing word: money.
An enjoyable and interesting video!
I spent most of my professional life preventing automotive fuel tanks from exploding (as fuel system engineer). I wish more people would watch this video to understand what's behind Hollywood's action scenes, and still enjoy the films.
Poor 924....
Its a 944
You can tell by the widebody
And it made me more hurt
I'd rather have realistic physics in movies than all the fireballs and fireworks.
Go read a book. You can have all the realism you want.
The point of a film is to tell a story and bring a directors vision to light. There's plenty of real physics in there. It's just done in a way that makes the story flow better. How would we have a good ghost story if we went for realism all the time?
@@thesweetnotes real physics are more believable. For example the video game Half Life 2 has the best physics out of any video game. The explosions are not giant fireballs, but realistic, high speed explosions that launch surrounding objects in different directions.
What an amazing documentary. Very cool to see how do they do it
I’ve seen so many cars stunts that are just insane and it’s so funny to hear him say yeah it makes no sense there’s no physics involved but when it’s done, right it’s awesome
THE CAR GOT CRUSHED!
Casually angle grinding in an enclosed space with no respirator
These are just the traffic cars we hit in video games. The player's car(s) built like a tank, but their cars are just made of tin cans.
"Everything we do defies physics. None of these makes sense. But we get paid to do it." 😂😂😂
Thank you for the update, Insider..!! Wow, that was awesome..!! 👍
Imagine accidentally selling one of those to a family 💀
Rest in peace
Those cars are never sold to the public, they are held in studio lots to be later reused and scrapped when they're no longer usable as props.
Won't happen.
As a car guy my soul just left my body
only good car was that w123 benz
@@JohnDoe-tl7zg Porsche 944? BMW I8? Chrysler 300c?
Wow I’m very impressed a lot more work goes into “fake car crashes” for film than i imagined. 💥🚗
Thats a man who loves his job haha would be so much fun doing this
Very cool and interesting. I wonder if it makes some car companies think twice about placing their cars in movies. Do you want some great advertising or do you want people to think your car crushes like a aluminium can?
Wow. I'm not a car person so I had no idea how many safety features were put into cars that are not visible.
"Everything we do defies physics. None of it makes sense, but we get paid to do it." lol
The way I need a car and some people are crashing cars
I’ve never wanted to work in the movie industry more than today.
"Everything we do defies physics. None of it makes sense but we get paid to do it."
Pretty cool, since 99% of the time it's done with CGI.
CGI has, and always has had, one inherent problem. It lacks in depth-of-field.
@@dalethelander3781 thank you for not being spam.
As a car lover, this video is pure gore.
That is pretty cool. I always wondered how this is done.
A genuinely interesting documentary that doesn’t treat the viewer like they have an IQ of 50.
I didn’t realise they still made those.
Awesome information, thank you for showing this to me
Hawaii 5-0 has lots of excellent car explosion scenes
Sad some really nice cars getting destroyed
I didn't get the answer to the question I have had in mind for a long time. Do you guys destroy actual functional cars?
thank you for this. I've always wondered how they did this. I thought it was all tiny cars bein crushed or something
Amazing how strong cars are
Very cool stuff!
Go ahead and smash that BMW i8 all you want but man it hurt to see that old Porsche 928 get crushed for that scene, looked like a pretty clean car. Granted they are not very popular but im sure there are more than a few collectors out there that could have put it to good use...
Not real
“To get cars spectacularly destroyed on screen...”😹😁🤣
TFW the LeSabre shown being cut and prepped was in cleaner condition than the one I drive now 😢
wonderful video 🔥🙌
I feel reaally bad about that red porsche 944 and del sol in the thumbnail, but they were prepared so, in the end, its all for cinema i guess..
love me some car/truck destruction in movies. great work. 😁😁🤘🤘
8:19 OMFG! ARE THEY STILL ALIVE? 😰😂
Great Job!!!!
I remember the Hot Wheel Crack Ups when I was a kid.
The art of crash science love it