@@KingdaToro Braveheart pressed all the buttons for the academy voters is why I think too that it was a crime that Apollo 13 did not sweep the awards and ron Howard not even being nominated just was the worst part of it
Even though I’ve seen the movie 100 times I just recently watched it and then I go down a rabbit hole and become obsessed I need to know everything about the real story and how they made the film
If you haven’t seen it already you need to watch the hbo miniseries “from the earth to the moon” shot with a lot of the same crew and with hanks producing, it follows the Apollo program from beginning to end
It was definitely hard to film. Ron Howard did the story justice. The only difference I’m aware of is that real crew didn’t fight. Everyone was calm and moved as smoothly as possible
I started off my TH-cam journey by watching Chris Hadfeild discussing space myths, to Behind the scenes of Gravity, to this video. Now I’m off down the Tom hanks interview because of this comment. I’m sure after that I’ll be watching more hot one interviews.
When I fist saw this movie, I was astounded at the realism of weightlessness… and even said to a friend that I wondered if they actually filmed it in the vomit comet (I’m an aero eng so I’m familiar with arc flights simulating zero g). The cost to ensemble all the players and secure the aircraft for over 600 flights must have been enormous!!
Something i didnt know until seeing this, is the planes roof height isnt enough , so the set is sideways and for hours, the actors have to be on their sides and even worse when the pull up occurs after decent, they feel this on their ribs with little padding camouflaged as part of side wall not their feet as each cycle happens. Hair and makeup up there?? and if any man feels ill, they simply have to stop or land. As a pilot myself, i can simulate this for a few secs in a smaller plane and dust and everything floats and up and down and up and down and passengers can soon feel sick a bit but these guys are professionals however, ever half the astronauts as tough as they are get sick when in space till they slowly get used to it. Next time i see these scenes in the film, i will see if they are angled naturally when they are "standing" upright as you can see them trying not to naturally do with their head cocked a little towards "up" Brutal day of filming where i though they would do it all on their feet in the upright position would be hard enough but on their side?? Glamorous easy job a actor!!
I've watched this very cool video previously, but it popped up in my home page again today, so I thought...why not. 22:03 That's NASA astronaut Janice Voss in the background, wearing the patch for her second Shuttle mission (STS-63). She had a total of five spaceflights during her career, and sadly passed away in 2012.
Seeing this makes me not wanna wait for more commercialization of LEO trips so we can start making more space movies in microgravity! I can imagine it getting cheap enough to borrow dragon capsules and NASA ISS-esque modules and creating an entire set in them, film crew, actors, and director all go up, spend a week or two living in that environment and doing shoots. Although CG is getting there to not even have to, but it would still be cool for the spirit of it and the accomplishment to make a movie in LEO.
always wondered what a decent amount of water would look like in this situation. Like, imagine an entire fishtank of water just floating there, free for the actors to interact with. would make for a cool scene in a scifi or something, or a deleted scene from Inception
But in 2022 it’ll actually be a $200Million Tom Cruise movie that is actually mostly shot in space!!! And I’m not no making that up, Cruise and director Doug Liman are due to go and film in space and are booked on a SpaceX rocket and mostly shoot on the international space station. It is currently scheduled for 2022, but that’ll likely be slightly altered due to various factors (not withstanding the delays that Mission impossible 7 and 8 are both having in their shooting schedules)
There's a few technical inaccuracies. The shots in space would have no sound. But Audiences expect to hear something so they put in ....."Whoosh.. Shhhhh". I really wish they didn't pander to expectations. Kubrick wouldn't have done it.
This is so fascinating! From a producer standpoint you have such a small set, and only 3 characters with minimal crew, so all the BIG money can go into the fuel and insurance (Typical costs aside). NASA aircraft are safer than commercial aircraft and working with NASA injects authenticity, so that's a win-win. From a production standpoint, It is a crazy perfect balance of simple and complicated. It all just comes together so well, and it looks like it was an absolute blast to be there. Ron, Tom, and the DP in particular are having the time of their life! Apex cinema.
Had a go at this several times whist in the Air Force after an air test the crew would let us goof around down the back its hilarious! The trouble is if you got a cup of water the water comes out of the cup!!
I have the movie Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks I have also scene the actual footage of Apollo 13 I remember that time I knew the astronauts were in trouble then and I remember hearing the name Jim Lovell
its known as ADR, almost all the dialogue you hear in movies is recorded after filming in a studio. Sound fx added by foley experts. Dialogue on set is rarely used in a final film. It's just there to give the actor reference for the ADR work after filming is finished. ADR=Automated dialog replacement
Yeah, and some ADR is better than others. You'll notice in movies sometimes the words you hear the characters speaking doesn't seem to quite match the movements of their mouth and other facial cues. I noticed a lot of moments like that in the Lord of the rings trilogy
I heard that they made over 500 parabolic flights for this movie and I start to wonder. How much fuel did they use? How much did it cost plus service, crew, etc. Wouldn't one flight to the Mir/ISS be cheaper? They had Shuttles missions (STS) at the time. Just wondering...
Que agonia danada pra filmar nesse lugar, eu já teria desistido do projeto, pois sou claustrofóbico. Admiravel o empenho da equipe em filmar nessas condições no mínimo peculiares. Me deixou tenso só de ver 😰
Kubrick hated flying or I'm sure he would have done similar for 2001 - albeit I don't know if it would have been technically possible with his camera gear on a plane , plus 80 takes a scene wouldn't really have been an option . As it is - his weightless effects were not actually that amazing - the floating pen , the painfully slow walk of the stewardess around the cabin wall and Frank , dead and rotating in space . That's probably heresy to say that.
But how the movie crew an actors survived this vomit comet roller coaster?.. I recall how Mike Mullane discribed his feelings whie 0 G trainings in his "Riding Rockets" on this plane. 🤮
This is exactly how the original Apollo 13 show was filmed. Always cutting away from the weightless scenes after only a few seconds is obvious. I believe 18 seconds is currently the longest time attained. Why are you in such a hurry?
Wow?! Really though, why is that your take? From a production standpoint this so much more technically challenging. Instructor in the USAF, coordinating a trained aircrew is hard enough, then adding a film production and actors is WILD from a safety perspective. I suppose I'm not eloquent enough to say well, this is hard a fuck lol.
@@hunterhalo2 The zero gravity is real on Apollo 13, as opposed to intricate film-making artifice. There's nothing really there to impress me in that sense, since the weightlessness on the plane did it all for them. The film is impressive in other ways.
Ugh……not gonna sugarcoat it…..what an absolute _nightmare_ this must’ve been. I think the only filming that looks worse than this that I’ve seen is The Abyss.
@@dudesy916 th-cam.com/video/6DOOUeBUOYc/w-d-xo.html Skip to 10:08. Kevin Bacon talks about filming Apollo 13 and specifically references this footage at 11:45.
This is only safe way to visit the moon 🌙. I can't recommend doing it for real. You're finished in less than 72hours from lift-off. You wouldn't enjoy it very much. There's a great variety of ways of checking out more comfortably 👌 Listening to those who have visited talk about their "Great Adventure" is an exquisite pleasure❤️Ponytails. Even in space, they ask..."Does my bum look big in this? Yes, it's supposed to look big. You're a woman. Look it up on-line sometime. The ISS won't have it so easy. Their cheap low orbit Bungalow is coming down "Heavy" Failure is not an option. Just like Truth 👍 👌
How did they manage to not get sick? Especially Ron Howard having to watch a screen during this and the camera man looking through the camera. I wouldn’t be surprised if a small amount of medication was involved.
those days are gonne...now only this crappy cgi and deaging....60s painting backdrops and stuntmen and physical props were great...they doing cgi cause it is cheaper...major fail..
And you can instantly tell when they're on wires. They didn't use wires specifically for that reason. They put them on teeter totters instead for the close ups. The KC 135 is all B roll stuff. They didn't shoot main dialogue material with this.
It's astonishing that Ron Howard wasn't even nominated for Best Director given how arduous and how ultimately effective this production was.
We worked with him on Parenthood. One of the nicest guys on the planet
It's the only time null grav has looked authentic. Because they actually did it the mad lads. :D
This is so much better than CGI or any other way to fake weightlessness. This is the real deal if only for half a minute at a time.
Reminds me of the making of the original King Kong - slow, tedious work but worth it in the end
This is one of those things that _cannot_ be "improved" with CGI.
That would be kinda like trying to make a robot more lifelike than a real human.
I’ve only gone “weightless” in light singles… still very cool.
nothing is impossible@@Peter_1986
How did this movie not win all the awards. At least directing. He filmed a whole movie in actual weightlessness.
Because there was MAJOR oscar bait that year... Braveheart.
@@KingdaToro Braveheart pressed all the buttons for the academy voters is why
I think too that it was a crime that Apollo 13 did not sweep the awards and ron Howard not even being nominated just was the worst part of it
THIS is how a movie should be made.
Even though I’ve seen the movie 100 times I just recently watched it and then I go down a rabbit hole and become obsessed I need to know everything about the real story and how they made the film
You're not alone.
If you haven’t seen it already you need to watch the hbo miniseries “from the earth to the moon” shot with a lot of the same crew and with hanks producing, it follows the Apollo program from beginning to end
Right there with you man. I'm currently reading Jim Lovell's book about his experience on Apollo 13.
This is incredibly impressive
Such an incredible look at one of the finest motion pictures ever produced.
I wonder if he ever got his gimbal angles...
He's still waiting for the angles before he shuts down the computer.
Tom is such a good actor, you can hardly tell if he's playing a scene or talking to a crew member ahah.
What a fantastic movie! I admire any director’s patience and vision but man, this looks very trying.
Wow, I had no clue that it was that hard to film those scenes and everyone was working so well together.
RIP Bill
You were one of my favorite Texans
It was definitely hard to film. Ron Howard did the story justice. The only difference I’m aware of is that real crew didn’t fight. Everyone was calm and moved as smoothly as possible
I read somewhere that they had to make 612 separate flights to get all the footage they needed! Wow!
That's what I call a hands on director.
This movie and 'The Abyss" had really interesting BTS footage.
That must have been exhausting. Professionals at work!
He needs those gimbal angles Jack!
Wow! I had no idea that they actually filmed those scenes in zero gravity!
The only other way to film authentically in microgravity would be to go into space. Fantastic commitment by the whole crew!
Heard about this from his interview on Hot Ones. This is SO COOL. What a cool opportunity, and what dedication to the craft.
Literally paused the interview to watch this 🤣🤟🏻
I started off my TH-cam journey by watching Chris Hadfeild discussing space myths, to Behind the scenes of Gravity, to this video. Now I’m off down the Tom hanks interview because of this comment. I’m sure after that I’ll be watching more hot one interviews.
When I fist saw this movie, I was astounded at the realism of weightlessness… and even said to a friend that I wondered if they actually filmed it in the vomit comet (I’m an aero eng so I’m familiar with arc flights simulating zero g). The cost to ensemble all the players and secure the aircraft for over 600 flights must have been enormous!!
Legend has it he's still waiting for the gimbal angles..
It’s funny that watching this it looks like the movie would be terrible but in fact was a masterpiece.
This is such an extraordinary effort a whole new level of appreciation for this movie 🎬
What a wild movie set!
Something i didnt know until seeing this, is the planes roof height isnt enough , so the set is sideways and for hours, the actors have to be on their sides and even worse when the pull up occurs after decent, they feel this on their ribs with little padding camouflaged as part of side wall not their feet as each cycle happens. Hair and makeup up there?? and if any man feels ill, they simply have to stop or land.
As a pilot myself, i can simulate this for a few secs in a smaller plane and dust and everything floats and up and down and up and down and passengers can soon feel sick a bit but these guys are professionals however, ever half the astronauts as tough as they are get sick when in space till they slowly get used to it. Next time i see these scenes in the film, i will see if they are angled naturally when they are "standing" upright as you can see them trying not to naturally do with their head cocked a little towards "up" Brutal day of filming where i though they would do it all on their feet in the upright position would be hard enough but on their side?? Glamorous easy job a actor!!
thanks for your perspective! after seeing all this footage it definitely gives you a better appreciation watching the movie.
I've watched this very cool video previously, but it popped up in my home page again today, so I thought...why not.
22:03 That's NASA astronaut Janice Voss in the background, wearing the patch for her second Shuttle mission (STS-63).
She had a total of five spaceflights during her career, and sadly passed away in 2012.
I could tell this was the Vomit Comet when I saw the movie because the “zero-G” was NOISY. 🛩
",...and VOMIT!!..." These guys had a lot more fun at their job than I( did at mine.
They made enough parabolics to be astronaut rated .
Incredible feat!!
Movie was very well made. Very Convincing.
Seeing this makes me not wanna wait for more commercialization of LEO trips so we can start making more space movies in microgravity! I can imagine it getting cheap enough to borrow dragon capsules and NASA ISS-esque modules and creating an entire set in them, film crew, actors, and director all go up, spend a week or two living in that environment and doing shoots.
Although CG is getting there to not even have to, but it would still be cool for the spirit of it and the accomplishment to make a movie in LEO.
Fascinating look at the making of a great movie!
Good to see I’m not the only Apollo 13 fanatic around 👍
Now you know how they ‘appear’ weightless when apparently filming from the international space station.
always wondered what a decent amount of water would look like in this situation. Like, imagine an entire fishtank of water just floating there, free for the actors to interact with. would make for a cool scene in a scifi or something, or a deleted scene from Inception
Those J57 turbojets sound amazing.
Jesus Christ, they should have all got Oscars for this
ahh, where's the gimble angles when you need them
How on Earth is it that Howard wasn't even nominated for best director for Apollo 13 by those Oscar weenies?
iF they did this movie now, in 2021, it would be a 500 million dollar CGI shit fest
I know, eh! I mean 'Gravity' was amazing but I feel like they could've done it on a plane like 'Apollo 13', would've looked neater.
But in 2022 it’ll actually be a $200Million Tom Cruise movie that is actually mostly shot in space!!! And I’m not no making that up, Cruise and director Doug Liman are due to go and film in space and are booked on a SpaceX rocket and mostly shoot on the international space station. It is currently scheduled for 2022, but that’ll likely be slightly altered due to various factors (not withstanding the delays that Mission impossible 7 and 8 are both having in their shooting schedules)
@@robertdora7026 That's kind of kick ass and also kind of stupid lol. 200 million on a movie.
@@DrMurdercock I know!!
There's a few technical inaccuracies. The shots in space would have no sound. But Audiences expect to hear something so they put in ....."Whoosh.. Shhhhh". I really wish they didn't pander to expectations. Kubrick wouldn't have done it.
They've done so many Zero G flights... they could fly to space in the reality
This is so fascinating! From a producer standpoint you have such a small set, and only 3 characters with minimal crew, so all the BIG money can go into the fuel and insurance (Typical costs aside). NASA aircraft are safer than commercial aircraft and working with NASA injects authenticity, so that's a win-win. From a production standpoint, It is a crazy perfect balance of simple and complicated. It all just comes together so well, and it looks like it was an absolute blast to be there. Ron, Tom, and the DP in particular are having the time of their life! Apex cinema.
Вот это подход к съемкам!
Worst charter flight I've EVER been on. We finally did get make to Mexico though.
😊
Sooo cool!
Awesome
now THAT was a day at work!
What a cool job!
Had a go at this several times whist in the Air Force after an air test the crew would let us goof around down the back its hilarious! The trouble is if you got a cup of water the water comes out of the cup!!
I have the movie Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks I have also scene the actual footage of Apollo 13 I remember that time I knew the astronauts were in trouble then and I remember hearing the name Jim Lovell
RIP Bill Paxton. And tell Jack to get Jim his Gimball angles.
So yeah. All those space scenes? Shot in just 20-30 seconds at a time on an aircraft doing 500 mph dives.
how the hell did the sounds engineers manage to erase all that noise!!
its known as ADR, almost all the dialogue you hear in movies is recorded after filming in a studio. Sound fx added by foley experts. Dialogue on set is rarely used in a final film. It's just there to give the actor reference for the ADR work after filming is finished. ADR=Automated dialog replacement
Yeah, and some ADR is better than others. You'll notice in movies sometimes the words you hear the characters speaking doesn't seem to quite match the movements of their mouth and other facial cues. I noticed a lot of moments like that in the Lord of the rings trilogy
All the dialogue was overdubbed.
Wouldn't be hard to ADR these shots. They're only 15 seconds at a time. They're not rolling sound on this. If they are it is only a guide track.
@@DrMurdercock thats interesting I know they dub some scenes like obviously with all the noise going on here
I wonder how hard editing the audio was considering all the air noise.
It's called overdubbing in the studio. Musicians do it all the time.
They all had to be exhausted by the end of the day. That doesn't look as easy as people might think.
Astronaut Dave Scott was theirs space consultant.
would love to know the name of the person who shot this footage - excellent camera work!
I wonder how many minutes of footage was shot vs the amount of hours in the air
They had spent 4+ hours weightless. The entire movie runs half that time. So pretty sure there are plenty of unused footage.
I heard that they made over 500 parabolic flights for this movie and I start to wonder. How much fuel did they use? How much did it cost plus service, crew, etc. Wouldn't one flight to the Mir/ISS be cheaper? They had Shuttles missions (STS) at the time. Just wondering...
i doubt the fuel would cost over 1 billion dollars also Mir wasn't around anymore and the iss wasn't he a thing yet
Shuttle missions weren't long enough and only 7 people could could ride at a time, also the cost to put the whole set would be way too much
You should look up how much it cost per pound to send to space
Quite nice
Que agonia danada pra filmar nesse lugar, eu já teria desistido do projeto, pois sou claustrofóbico. Admiravel o empenho da equipe em filmar nessas condições no mínimo peculiares. Me deixou tenso só de ver 😰
So... was all of the dialog replaced too? I guess it would have to be considering the noise in these clips.
Kubrick hated flying or I'm sure he would have done similar for 2001 - albeit I don't know if it would have been technically possible with his camera gear on a plane , plus 80 takes a scene wouldn't really have been an option . As it is - his weightless effects were not actually that amazing - the floating pen , the painfully slow walk of the stewardess around the cabin wall and Frank , dead and rotating in space . That's probably heresy to say that.
The only filming for microgravity I see beating this is the planned Tom Cruise Film to be filmed actually on orbit.
But how the movie crew an actors survived this vomit comet roller coaster?.. I recall how Mike Mullane discribed his feelings whie 0 G trainings in his "Riding Rockets" on this plane. 🤮
I’ve read his book too and was thinking the same thing.
I mean, I get motion sickness when playing dirt rally in VR...
How did they record dialogue over the engine noise?
Pretty sure you can drop all that out in post production. Isolate speech and then you have looping sessions to dub over.
ADR, maybe?
They probably overdubbed all the dialogue.
Good
This is exactly how the original Apollo 13 show was filmed. Always cutting away from the weightless scenes after only a few seconds is obvious. I believe 18 seconds is currently the longest time attained. Why are you in such a hurry?
This might sound crazy... but I actually prefer seeing film-makers tackle weightlessness using ingenuity and practical techniques.
Wow?! Really though, why is that your take? From a production standpoint this so much more technically challenging. Instructor in the USAF, coordinating a trained aircrew is hard enough, then adding a film production and actors is WILD from a safety perspective. I suppose I'm not eloquent enough to say well, this is hard a fuck lol.
@@hunterhalo2 The zero gravity is real on Apollo 13, as opposed to intricate film-making artifice. There's nothing really there to impress me in that sense, since the weightlessness on the plane did it all for them. The film is impressive in other ways.
@@MrPicklerwoof Definitely made lifting that heavy camera a lot easier.
Ugh……not gonna sugarcoat it…..what an absolute _nightmare_ this must’ve been.
I think the only filming that looks worse than this that I’ve seen is The Abyss.
First guy they show looks a lot like Noah Emmerich (Marlon in the Truman Show)
Hot Ones brought me here.
Me too!
got a lot of messages/comments over the last few days referencing hot ones - not sure what that is.
@@dudesy916 th-cam.com/video/6DOOUeBUOYc/w-d-xo.html
Skip to 10:08. Kevin Bacon talks about filming Apollo 13 and specifically references this footage at 11:45.
thought they really went to space
This is only safe way to visit the moon 🌙. I can't recommend doing it for real. You're finished in less than 72hours from lift-off. You wouldn't enjoy it very much. There's a great variety of ways of checking out more comfortably 👌 Listening to those who have visited talk about their "Great Adventure" is an exquisite pleasure❤️Ponytails. Even in space, they ask..."Does my bum look big in this? Yes, it's supposed to look big. You're a woman. Look it up on-line sometime. The ISS won't have it so easy. Their cheap low orbit Bungalow is coming down "Heavy" Failure is not an option. Just like Truth 👍 👌
Is that Richie fucking Cunningham?
I think i see opie ? 🇺🇸
where kookie
How did they manage to not get sick? Especially Ron Howard having to watch a screen during this and the camera man looking through the camera. I wouldn’t be surprised if a small amount of medication was involved.
I heard that cameramen did get sick but actors didn't. :)
Are they supposed to vomit?
o they're using equipment that was also used to fake the landing?
those days are gonne...now only this crappy cgi and deaging....60s painting backdrops and stuntmen and physical props were great...they doing cgi cause it is cheaper...major fail..
I needed a vomit bag just watching this🤢
It’s cheaper using wires
And you can instantly tell when they're on wires. They didn't use wires specifically for that reason. They put them on teeter totters instead for the close ups. The KC 135 is all B roll stuff. They didn't shoot main dialogue material with this.
Actually removing wires is much better now digitally than it was possible at that time. This is the real deal👌