In the new movie preview trailer for the new movie Insurgent there is a railroad scene where one of the characters appears to attempt to leap across the tracks while a speeding locomotive is racing towards him.
It is 30 seconds into the preview. They are showing it on IMDb.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2908446/?ref_=hm_otw_t0
Do you have an opinion about it?
The locomotive resembles the EMD SD70ACe or SD90MAC.
I had seen the commercial on my cable but with the above link, I was able to freeze the scene. I had wanted to screem when I first saw this after seeing the News coverage for the movie filming death in Georgia where the director pleaded guilty and received a two year sentence (one year or less in prison) for “stealing” a scene. and filming on the CSX bridge without permisson. I presume this was shot on the space center at Cape Canaveral since the “train” consists of a diesel on two center tracks pulling a very wide load that requires the outer tracks. So it was staged but neverthe less, it will I suspect lead to copycat events where there will be dares to others to emulate this scene. Very irresponsible of the movie producers to do this. But I wish I knew what can be done to stop it. Looking a second time, I tried to see whether this was CGI where they shot the train and merged that with a shot of him jumping the track. There are multiple takes but I could not discern any “Photoshopping” in the frames I studied. Any bets as to how long after this movie comes out that someone will die trying this for real?
About two more days from now…
The digital compostiting of images using high-end computer programs and fast processors has become so good that it is hard to tell were the real image starts and the digital image begins.
The actor jumping, the locomotive, and the wide train behind it have to be all seperate elements layered together with a background of trees.
Clicking the link gets me to the “Insurgent” page of IMDB, and I have watched several of the videos linked on that page and cannot find any scene where someone is in front of any sort of train. What link on that page gets the video you are referring to?
Looks like Metrolink (SoCal) is anticipating that this movie will trigger some unsafe behavior around local trackage:
IMDb must be adding and deleting video to stay current.
I would have to see the movie sometime to see the whole scene on the railroad.
Andrew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suZcGoRLXkU 0:37 is the scene
The entire train (and track) is CGI. Note the regularity of the rail joints (way too close for reality, but the graphics folks knew they were there). Also the train doesn’t shake or wabble (that would have taken another month to model on the computer). Easy to do for something like a locomotive where all the pieces move together.
And 4 rails? Even the crack MTM MOW crew would have trouble maintaining that gauge close enough for the train to stay on the rails. (props to the Minnesota Transportation Museum track crew).
As for bets about how soon somebody will try copycatting this, may we use the 1st movie in the franchise, Divergent, as a guide? How many copycats tried to run along elevated tracks and try to jump onto moving elevated trains, or jump off of moving elevated trains onto alongside buildings?
It appears to me that there are no wheels on the inner pair of rails. So I am guessing that it is just a dual gauge RR…
“Standard”
and
“R-E-A-L-L-Y_R-E-A-L-L-Y_W-I-D-E”
Aren’t those the shackle cars that have been moving around the rail network for ages? Breathing slits and all…
Seen this its Blue Screen and most people understand that. Except Low Budget B movie makers[angel] who earn there wings sooner then later.