Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan

Name: Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Director: Gilles Penso
Released: 2012
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Ray Harryhausen, Peter Jackson, Terry Gilliam, Guillermo del Toro, James Cameron

2012 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 1,380 VOTES · DIR. Gilles Penso

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Overview

There’s only one person who so accurately personifies movie magic in the history of film, and that man is special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen. Focusing on the man behind the landmark effects on films like Clash Of The Titans, One Million Years B.C., Jason And The Argonauts and many more, this in-depth film features interviews with the great man himself, and with an array of animators and directors influenced by his work including Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Nick Park, Terry Gilliam, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg. The film also features unseen footage of tests and experiments recently uncovered.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,402 lines

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00:00:23 - Ray Harryhausen. - Ray Harryhausen.

00:04:08 In my early days. I did mostly experiments with dinosaurs.

00:07:43 I don't know back then if I knew how stop frame animation was done.

00:11:25 We had 27 people on the stage.

00:14:49 So I was doing this for a long time.

00:18:28 where it's an in-your-face performance going on.

00:21:59 No matter what technology you use.

00:25:36 But when the moVie's done. That's what you remember and you care about it.

00:29:45 Whereas I was beginning to learn

00:33:06 You would accept it more readily as a melodramatic story.

00:37:35 (Woman screams)

00:41:59 (dramatic orchestral music)

00:45:40 where corpses come out of the ground.

00:49:10 I know this isn't real but. Boy. It sure looks real.

00:52:58 Or. "Why don't you Just look at a Harryhausen shot and see what he did?"

00:56:30 and then I discoVered this film where there are real people with dinosaurs

01:00:13 It took well oVer two and a half months to film that one sequence.

01:03:43 'The death fight of the centaur and the griffin. The six-armed goddess of eVil.'

01:08:16 Many critics called our films a special effects film. Which they were not.

01:11:35 The storytelling that they do.

01:15:31 One person does the eye. One person does the nose.

01:19:01 And you would roll them around with the stop motion process.

01:22:28 It's kind of like when you go to see a magician.

01:26:48 It was the harpie's head!

Cast & Characters

Ray Harryhausen Self - Filmmaker Peter Jackson Self - Director of The Hobbit Terry Gilliam Self - Director of Brazil Guillermo del Toro Self - Director of Hellboy James Cameron Self - Director of Terminator & Avata Tim Burton Self - Director of Mars Attacks John Landis Self - Director of Blues Brothers Henry Selick Self - Director of The Nightmare Before Christmas Ray Bradbury Self - Author of The Martian Chronicles & Fahrenheit 451 Tony Dalton Self - Film Historian

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,402

Dialogue density15.6 lines / min

First line00:00:23

Final line01:26:48

Production Record

DirectorGilles Penso

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes1,380