REAL GENIUS practical effects
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- REAL GENIUS practical effects. Bryson “Pete” Gerard talks about working on the famous popcorn scene from the 1985 Martha Coolidge film. Segment from Sense of Scale. Photos: David Stipes, Jack G Taylor, Max Cervantes, Pete Gerard, Thomas Higginson, Robert Coolidge, Tri Star, Sony
A well spoken artist and craftsman , i can't get enough of these guys , unsung heroes
I'm hugely fascinated by special effects and how they're accomplished, and Real Genius is one of my favorite movies. Thanks Piercefilms for collecting all of these interviews, I've been watching through all these since The Algorithm suggested your Hunt for Red October videos last week. Your channel is a treasure of special effects oral tradition. It's a tragedy that miniatures and practical effects are becoming a dying breed, and modern movies are worse for their loss. Thank you for posting these.
Thanks for watching!
This is incredible and one of my favorite moments in movie history.
Great stuff before Cg, when people had to figure things out.
I saw this movie as a kid in the 80s but Never thought or realized the amount of work it took to see that much popcorn in the movie
Loved this movie!
Great hearing about what he’s up to now and how he’s still evolving the skills he picked up doing effects work. Fantastic post as always!
These videos are absolutely amazing. I have LONG been drawn to film vfx and especially the miniature stuff because I absolutely suck at doing that kind of thing. It blows my mind just how effective so many of these are (I had no idea that whole dump truck batmobile thing was a freaking miniature). Real Genius has long been one of my all time favorite films. I love that they straight up just bought an insane amount of popcorn and filled parts of the house and shot it out of others. That had to be fun to figure out.
Doughboy swimming pool, V8 engines, a feed auger... and lots of popcorn. That is Real Genius.
It's amazing how much ingenuity and effort goes into a practical effect that the audience only sees on screen for a couple of seconds.
Pete Gerard is the coolest! Guy must be a wealth of knowledge. That popcorn scene looks insane.
I'm so glad to see stuff about real genius even today!
Fascinating information! Nicely explained too.
well now I want to see his artwork
Me too.
I've always loved this channel...and now it's covering my favorite movie! 🍿 🍿 🍿
The real genius of Real Genius.
Boy I BET they all wound up hating the smell of popcorn. I remember wondering casually how they managed to get all that popcorn going. I'm seriously in awe of how they achieved that! Fabulous movie!
I’ve always wondered how they did that effect!
Impressive!
When doing media archive research on Real Genius, one UA-cam commenter remembers that there was a Behind the Scenes mini doc by HBO regarding the PopCorn scene that HBO aired back in 1985 or 1986. I searched and searched for it and still am not able to find the footage so perhaps it was shown on CineMax if anyone can confirm.
I really can't believe that they actually popped that much corn to make that scene -- that's incredible! Love that movie!
Somebody Get That Man A Big Fat Paycheck.
Giant popcorn poppers 🤣 Awesome.
I'd love to see some of his artwork
It's your moral imperative! :P
Would love to see some actual video from different angles taken while they were filming the scenes for the movie to see how the effects were done in action.
there is a "making of" somewhere out there. Maybe someone uploaded it on youtube.
@@piercefilm I'll look. Thanks! I love what you're doing!
⚠️🍿😎🦺🍿🍿🍿🍿.. KuweL
I use to work at a cinema, so I understand why he hates the smell of popcorn.
Funny hating the smell of popcorn just like Professor Hathaway in the film!
Could hjave just bought a grain elevator lol
Not to every window in the house...
That kinda sucks you bullied a guy a set, making his job harder even though he was quick and got the job done. Kinda dumb to admit that. Love the movie.
You've never worked on a movie set, I take it. Almost everyone plays practical jokes on each other. Robert Downey Jr used to take a dump in the trailers of the other actors or crew. It's part of movie making. Same with rock bands on tour...
That was bullying??? Snowflakes abound, the traditional workplace you'd have died