Ok, so in the first movie….how did they do the whole eggs on the counter thing? Are they pressurized with air or what's going on?
Ghostbusters(1st movie) effects question
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15 years, 4 months ago
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15 years, 4 months ago
joshwennes;152227
Ok, so in the first movie….how did they do the whole eggs on the counter thing? Are they pressurized with air or what's going on?
Which part, where they popped out of the box or cooked on the counter?
By your mention of pressure, I'll go with the eggs popping.
It might be something as simple as that, one of the behind-the-scenes shots from Making Ghostbusters had a load of pipes… so maybe what they did was make a bunch of fake, breakable eggs with real yoke inside, and forced the yoke out with the aforementioned pressure.
That's just a guess, of course.
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15 years, 3 months ago
According to Making Ghostbusters:
Well in advance of photography, selected egg shells were scored with a small electric saw. Each cut was filled in with plaster, then sanded smooth and painted. During the scene, air was injected into the eggs from below, causing the shells to split along the scores and the contents to pop out onto the countertop –which was surfaced with teflon-coasted aluminum and heated from below with two propane burners.
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15 years, 3 months ago
before i read that i was gonna say pre cut and pushed up with the copper tubing trick
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15 years, 3 months ago
This effect will always, ALWAYS impress me.
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15 years, 3 months ago
Yehome;152322
This effect will always, ALWAYS impress me.
this. We still wonder today.
and I thought it was a REALLY HOT counter
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15 years, 3 months ago
What I always used to wonder was, if the counter was hot enough to fry eggs, why didn't the marshmallow bag/anything else melt? Now all is known, but that's still one of the neatest effects I've seen.
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15 years, 3 months ago
Dreamstalker;152361
What I always used to wonder was, if the counter was hot enough to fry eggs, why didn't the marshmallow bag/anything else melt? Now all is known, but that's still one of the neatest effects I've seen.
It's only half heated, you can see a slight difference between the tiles at the back of the counter and the “tiles” at the front. The ones which the box was actually sat on, as well as the ones the bag of Stay Puft Marshmallows were placed on weren't heated from beneath.
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15 years, 3 months ago
Y'see… Zuul had to pick one specific object to focus all of it's evil kinetic energy on to freak Dana out. That object was eggs. Zuul's earlier attempts at browning her celary and causing her milk to turn sour a week before it's expiration date just weren't working.
And now you know… the rest of the story… good day.
And now you know… the rest of the story… good day.