Film history and preservation evidently still in its infancy. In order to fully capture the carnage of the destruction of Atlanta during the filming of Gone With the Wind, producer David Selznick brokered a deal with the studio to torch unused old backlot sets, immolating the landmark King Kong and King of King sets as an afterthought. Books and documentaries ( Hearts of Darkness) have been filmed chronicling Coppola's slow descent into madness capturing the excess and grisly spectacle that was the Vietnam War. Air Cavalry in his 1979 film, Apocalypse Now, when not busy blowing up coastal villages built only to be burned to the ground. For full effect, director Francis Ford Coppola hired out the Philippine Air Force to pose as the U.S. But, back in the old days, it was truly a pyromaniac’s dream come true. Today, CGI is the go-to route for special effects, which, considering the history of human deaths and animal cruelty on film shoots, is a good thing. 'Very seldom is a guy going to put on a bomb suit and walk down there and try and dismantle something by hand,' one Army officer told NPR. The reckless heroics of The Hurt Locker, for example, bear little semblance to real-life combat, according to explosive ordinance disposal technicians who served in Iraq. Sitting on your butt for 99% of your tour, with only brief moments of abject, confused terror breaking up the monotony, is an element of active service few movies get right. Ironically, the uniforms are frequently more accurately depicted than the operating procedures or tactics of the military units donning them. The only thing harder than invading Russia in the winter is filming it. It was the only thing he did figure out, the movie never getting made. Interiors would be filmed in local French mansions, taking advantage of locals looking to make a quick buck to pay the wine & cheese bill. Stanley Kubrick long planned to make his Napoleon epic a reality, overcoming the obstacle of clothing hundreds of thousands of extras in time-accurate apparel by dressing the furthermost ones from the camera in paper smocks, not unlike a child cutting out colored paper dresses for their dollies.

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