Sound design

Once again, taking risks with young Michael in terms of the stunts. We never really had any stunt for any of these guys. I love this sound effect. The hammer hitting those toes. Hit anything that moves. Did you have a stand in for your feet, Bill? No, I did not.

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This is just done with simple mirrors here, isn't it? Yeah, it was a very basic... There's a mirror on the right-hand side of the screen that lines up. There's about two feet between the mirror and the far pole that Mike's putting his hand through right there. And we just put a little sound effect in and tried to match the color. That mirror's reflecting a wall from the other side of the set. And then Mike was just able to dive right through. That was a trampoline effect. We brought a trampoline up against a red wall and it was...

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You've got to react to the explosions. It's rather like reacting to a punch. It's no good throwing a punch and the chap doesn't react to it because you know it has no reaction or no sound effect. With the explosions, you have to react. And as soon as the explosion goes, you know just how near you can get to it. You cooperate with the special effects just where you can be and when it's going off so that you actually throw yourself in the right direction so that it makes the explosion look genuine without killing anyone.

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I mean, it all sounds pretty natural, like not much sound design. Well, we had to, you know, when we were in the car, we had to add the real car engine because the dialogue scenes were using the lesser engine. So that had to be, you know, beefed up occasionally. I mean, sometimes you don't notice it, you know. But, you know, very little of the dialogue was redone. Most of it was usable. We had, you know,

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I think James Cameron has also done theme park rides. And Francis Coppola directed Captain EO, didn't he? So it's something, and obviously Walt Disney is a great visionary. It goes back even further than you mentioned, Kim. There's the English painter John Martin. His paintings are great disasters. You would be placed in a room where there were lights, there were sound effects, essentially the theme park. Yeah, and maybe that relates to the idea of the...

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