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November 1987 |
This issue is out of print
and available only as
black-and-white photocopies
of individual articles.
Big city crime has turned
Old Detroit into a combat zone. Decent citizens can no longer venture
forth onto the streets, day or night, and even police officers are prime
targets for murder and mayhem. Clearly something must be done.
The answer as proposed in Jon Davison's production of
RoboCopis a new breed of urban crime-fighter - half man, half
machine, all business. Engaged to create this cyborg
superhero were film director Paul
Verhoeven, actor Peter Weller and makeup effects artist Rob
Bottin. Also contributing to the futuristic ambience were ED
209 supervisor Peter
Kuran, matte artist Rocco
Gioffre and a host of others who discuss in detail their experiences
on this most explosive of box office hits. Article by Paul M. Sammon |
For most directors, getting
inside one's characters is an intellectual exercise. But for Joe
Dante, Innerspace represented a literal opportunity to explore on
film the inner workings of a human being - specifically, supermarket clerk
Jack Putter who, as a consequence of a miscarried microscopic submersible
pod manned by test pilot Tuck Pendelton. Enlisted to design and produce
the innespace footage was visual effects supervisor
Dennis
Muren of Industrial
Light & Magic. Mixing anatomical realism with dramatic fancy,
Muren and his associates produced both miniaturization effects and macroscopic
excursions through the innermost recesses of actor Martin Short's eyes,
ears, blood stream, stomach and lungs. Article by Janine Pourroy |
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