Chucky... Behind The Scenes

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Today I will talk about a very special movie, a movie that has given us nightmares since we were kids. The movie is Chucky! Chucky has been terrorizing children and adult's dreams since 1988. Five movies have come out after this 1988 and we will have a new movie in 2017. This serial killer doll has progressed through the movies physically. I don't know personally what looks creeper, the good and innocent looking Chucky or the beat up full of stitches Chucky. With Chucky you get his famous wife, Tiffany, also a killer doll. So let's go on and talk about how they made this terrorizing doll.

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It takes about three technicians to control Chucky. All three of them move his eyebrow, mouth, head. However, in general it takes about fifteen people to make Chucky move the way that he does. These people control his whole body movement from his head to his little pinky and wrist. In some scenes of the movies, Chucky is acted out by a kid or a short person. They use them when they either have him running, climbing, killing, and other physical parts of his character. However, the majority of it is a robot. Chucky is a robot! They have different heads for Chucky since he has evolution through the years. They also have different bodies and body pieces because in some movies he is either burned or chopped up.

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As for Tiffany, she came as an idea when one of the producers was at a video store and he saw a copy of the bride of frankenstein and he thought it would be cool if Chucky had a bride. They created her slowly because they wanted to make her as realistic as they could and it is difficult because the dolls are about two feet tall so they have a small figure to work with. Their point was to make her just as psychotic as Chucky and that she really does contemplate Chucky's personality. Together they make one.

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Pitch Perfect... Behind The Scenes

 So today I wanted to do a very fun movie. We have all heard about Pitch Perfect, and surely almost everyone has seen it. If you haven't, it's about a group of acapella groups in a university that compete against each other and against other groups for the major title. Well I was interested in how the idea to create a movie about acapella groups came to be. Believe it or not the movie was a low budget movie with only $17 million and because of it's huge success it made $115.4 million. The idea came up to Elizabeth Banks and her husband when they read a book proposal. It took about three years to bring the movie to different movie companies. Finally Universal Studios took on the job and decided to bring it to life.

The preparation these actors had to take was intense even though it looked easy. The actors had to go through four weeks of intense training in both dancing and singing. Keep in mind that the majority of these actors never sang or danced in their lives. They got choreographer Aakomon "AJ" Jones to do create the dance routines for the different numbers in the movies. According to Elizabeth Banks and all audiences, he did a magnificent job. He had the actors train for about ten hours a day for those four weeks. There was blisters in their feet and some even cried but overall their experience was bond and enrichment. The actors also had to take singing classes. This they called it "Acapella Bootcamp" which is the training of their voices. For example, Hanna Mae Lee had to go with a DJ in order to teach her different techniques that would allow her to beat box.

After all this hard work, the movie was finally made in a total of 31 days!!! How's that for a deadline. However, their movie became such a success that it even got a second part to it and it's working in making a third sequel to it. The second movie was an even more success than the first one and it looks that the third one is going to be the same.

The Life of Pi... Behind The Scenes

The movie I will be talking about today is Life of Pi.  The Life of Pi is a very magical and exceptional movie that has won the audience's heart. It explores several themes, like survival, fear, loneliness, personal growth, and friendship. This movie was nominated for three golden globes, winning two and 11 Academy Awards, winning four. On both awards shows it won best picture. However, such a successful movie has its setbacks and challenges.

For starters, the book is very creative and to make into film was going to be a very challenging task. It was going to take a director that could truly understand and relate to the story. Some directors took an interest to the script but they weren't right to bring it to life until Ang Lee.

Another challenge was the graphics to create the tiger. They did actually have a real tiger to stand in the boat and move around the boat in order to study the movements his body made. From then the visual effects people switched from the real life tiger to the CGI tiger back and forth in the movie, to which according to them it has never been done before. Their computers had to adapt to how fast the movements of this tiger was since are very fast and then wanted to achieve realism. It was important for it to look real because it's character is very essential to be believable.

As for the actor he was just a regular kid from Dheli. His brother was the one that went to audition for the role and he was just there to support and accompany him. Suraj Sharma was told to give it a shot because of his age. He did and then they called him back. Six months later, he met with the producers and did one final audition. He was later told he got the role.