Night shoots & day-for-night

This is all photographed with a technique that's an old-time technique called Day for Night, in which it's actually photographed in the daytime with a particular filter pack and then printed in a certain way so that it, well, kind of looks like night. This shot, however, was shot day for day.

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This shot was also photographed day for night, or actually day for eclipse, I guess is what we really call this. This shot was originally not intended to be an effect shot. It is now an effect shot at the end when the mummy is revealed behind Jonathan. That's now digital makeup that was there originally. We were just gonna go with the makeup that was there and we decided that it needed to be enhanced. This was a fun scene.

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Paul M. Sammon

And the big fight between Robo 1 and Robo 2 at the end, it was an all-night shoot. And it was called the Wertham Center, which is a complex of different theaters, including the Alvin Alley Dance Company, one of the most famous in the world, who were having performances while we were blowing up armored personnel carriers and thousands of people. And we had to work out an arrangement with Alvin Alley that when they had a performance, we couldn't blow anything up. We could shoot.

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Tony Scott

At the end of the movie, one of her really tough emotional scenes... ...where I wanted her to, you know, denounce her love for Christian. And, you know, she was tired and she'd had a long day... ...and then she went into a 24-hour day by doing the night shoot. And emotionally, she wasn't getting where I wanted to get her. And actually, this scene was not shot in continuity. This was shot towards the end of the movie.

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