Just wondering if someone was committed enough to make such a movie
Boyhood was shot over 12 years following the same cast.
IT TOOK TWELVE YEARS TO MAKE!!!
I’m surprised they mentioned it in their latest BOTW, I thought they had completely forgotten it even existed by this point.
It’s a great movie too.
Oh wow
Add in the Before Sunrise trilogy, also by Linklater
There’s the “Seven Up!” series by the BBC. They filmed a bunch of kids at age 7, and then again at 14, 21, 28, etc.
The first was filmed in 1964 and 63 Up was filmed in 2019.
Not a single movie but that happened with several actors in both Star Wars and Star Trek. Or in Harry Potter. Puberty was good to Neville’s actor.
It has also happened in many TV series where you can see a kid grow up to adulthood.
It could have happened with the movie Coffee and Cigarettes which started filming in 1986 and was released in 2003. It consists of several short episodes. But as far as I recall none of the actors of the earlier episodes came back for one of the later episodes.
Puberty was good to Neville’s actor.
Dudley’s actor, Harry Melling, also got a fair bit more attractive. Maybe not as much as Matthew Lewis (Neville), but I’ve seen him in a couple of other roles where the makeup department isn’t actively sabotaging his appearance.
Came in to say Boyhood.
Sounds like the movie Boyhood
Pacino in The Godfather
Aged naturally… to play both older and younger… within a single film…
Given how most films only take a few months to film at most, I don’t think natural aging will have enough impact on a character to have a distinct “younger and older”. If the film took years to make, then parts would seem really low quality compared to other parts. If the character was only a few weeks older, you wouldn’t notice the difference between the accurate age and the reshoots.
Given how most films only take a few months to film at most
Got any sources for that claim? I was always under more of an impression that movies took at least a year and a half to make, if not 2-3 for a longer movie.
I didn’t say “make”, I said “film”. You don’t film the actors until the script, sets and costumes are ready, and you can’t edit the movie until after you’ve finished filming.
According to wikipedia, filming for Avengers Endgame started in August 2017 and finished in January 2018, with reshoots later that year. This was a big Marvel production with a ton of big-name actors doing complex action scenes, so I’m pretty sure this is on the high end of how much filming would need to be done.
I imagine the average person would take the phrase “film a movie” as synonymous with “make a movie”, even if they are technically distinct. If you’re being more specific with your usage than the typical person in your audience, that’s on you; don’t blame your audience for not understanding.
Ha! I was going to say Tron: Legacy until you said no sequels. Damn.
- Call me Lenny/Leni ( @shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee ) English2•1 year ago
Do flashbacks count?
Yes if it was intentionally and carefully planned according to the actors age. I understand it takes a lot of commitment, but wondering if there is such a movie out there where it is an important part of the plot as well.
- Call me Lenny/Leni ( @shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee ) English3•1 year ago
Oh. Erm, never mind then. I only know of examples of “I took footage from earlier that wasn’t planned but we realized was usable”.
Technically, every actor ages over the course of a film and plays a younger and older version of their character 🤓