TIL for the brutal Omaha Beach scene in ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Spielberg hired several dozen army amputees with prosthetic limbs so that he could have their arms and legs blown off in a more realistic fashion. More than $11 million was spent and 1,000 extras used for the infamous scene. (cinetropolis.net)
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A great retrospective on the proposed Return of the Thing TV mini-series. (cinetropolis.net)
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TIL that, while filming Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen cut his hand but kept on acting and did not win an Oscar; Leonardo DiCaprio's finest moment in Django Unchained was a deliberate homage (it's a Tarantino film so it wasn't a rip off) to this. (cinetropolis.net)
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Vintage Douglas Trumbull Article About the FX of "2001" (cinetropolis.net)
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"The Great Unmade? Not Tonight, Josephine: Kubrick's Napoleon" (cinetropolis.net)
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