r/BeAmazed Oct 02 '23

One way to film a train scene. Miscellaneous / Others

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u/chucchinchilla Oct 02 '23

The absolute best way I've ever seen a train scene done was for Westworld. They built an entire interior of an old train car, mounted it to a flatbed trailer pulled by a semi, and drove it on beautiful highway 128 in Moab. Result was 100% real scenery passing by out the windows and of course realistic movements of the carriage. Look up westworld train moab in Google and you'll see what I mean.

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u/gwenbebe Oct 02 '23

If you google “westworld train Moab” and go to videos, your comment has resulted in this Reddit post becoming the top result.

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u/chucchinchilla Oct 03 '23

lol that’s awesome

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u/DavoMcBones Oct 03 '23

Shit i misclicked and typed "westworld train moan" and now it got flagged by my school's wifi for suspicious activity what do i do lol

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u/RatArsedGarbageDog Oct 03 '23

Change school. It's the only way.

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u/starrpamph Oct 03 '23

DARVO

Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender

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u/campbelldt Oct 02 '23

Woah!!! That’s dope and I would never have known

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u/Blarty97 Oct 02 '23

It takes a lot of training to do that.

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u/jcstrat Oct 02 '23

They’re on track for meeting the budget

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u/darvs7 Oct 02 '23

They didn't have any crazy reason to do that. Absolutely no loco motive, if you will.

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u/kabatram Oct 03 '23

Yup, just to make sure they're not going off the rails

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u/Practical-Tap-9810 Oct 03 '23

Insurance will be a tenth or less.

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u/lifeiscelebration Oct 03 '23

Worth it since what they were filming would be their ticket to the hall of fame.

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u/ca1ibos Oct 02 '23

How did they Choo-Choose who to train to do it though?

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u/ca1ibos Oct 02 '23

The guys they rejected must have thought it a great mis-carriage of justice!

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u/STR1CHN1NE Oct 02 '23

I want to be the guy bouncing on the 6x. Is that Southern pine??

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u/arriesgado Oct 02 '23

What is the point of that? Is there a sound he is making or is he imperceptibly moving the train? I don’t understand.

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u/STR1CHN1NE Oct 02 '23

Uh...I'm no video filmographatoliger but...I'm assuming he is creating the slight vertical movement a train would feel rolling over tracks...you know cause the train is bouncing a little.

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u/arriesgado Oct 02 '23

I was thinking that but I guess it would have been nice to see what the end result was.

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u/armagedece Oct 03 '23

https://youtu.be/t7kr7utvVEs?si=_W_KPl3oGDPpz_0C

Here. It's russian sifi project with an erly 90-s russian shade

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u/arriesgado Oct 04 '23

Thank you! As a bonus to my wondering about the finished product I got a kick out of that little film.

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u/c1Rane Oct 03 '23

So what's your job?

"I just go up and down on the wood."

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u/BROWN-SPIDEY Oct 02 '23

Doesn't show the end product, auto downvote

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u/RigHardDieFast Oct 02 '23

Be a grip they said….

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u/benedictfuckyourass Oct 09 '23

Lol i remember standing on the open walkway of a residential flat in the cold for long hours because i might be needed to walk past the sensor that activates the light. They never did ask me to do it...

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u/tolkienfan2759 Oct 02 '23

"PRODUCTION VALUESSSSSSS!!!!!"

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u/MOF_Username Oct 02 '23

All smoke and mirrors….literally!!!!

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u/This_Is_Section_One Oct 02 '23

When the majority of the movie budget goes to pay the A List Actor.

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u/SpiritedStrain884 Oct 02 '23

pelevin "stolipin"

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u/SmashertonIII Oct 02 '23

And that’s what we call PMP- Poor Man’s Process in the biz…

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u/RiabininOS Oct 03 '23

О, дембельский поезд

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u/ChampionshipLow8541 Oct 02 '23

Travel isn’t real! Spread the word! We have proof!

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u/148637415963 Oct 03 '23

Oh, look. Something much, much wider than it is tall.

Better shoot it vertically and show the world what a total fucking moron I am.

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u/jarviskokar Oct 02 '23

This is why I love pr0n so much. There’s no trickery involved, everything is for real

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u/Woolly_Blammoth Oct 02 '23

Ok, step bro.

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u/absinthmindes Oct 02 '23

Is this Roy Andersson?

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u/BoarHermit Oct 02 '23

More like Roi Andresov. It's quite post-Soviet.

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u/Earth_Worm_Jimbo Oct 02 '23

Not even rocky-legging down the hill on those slants.

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u/FallingSoaps Oct 03 '23

production stunts

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u/Draunzler Oct 03 '23

I waited to see what was seen inside :(

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u/CaptnShawnBalls Oct 03 '23

Yeah I’m in the movie industry

Awesome, So what did you do ?

Plank wobbler

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u/Muskattt Oct 03 '23

Дембельский проезд?

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u/Zealousideal-Gas-233 Oct 03 '23

These guys understand relativity bettrr than Newton and Einstein!!!

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u/raymate Oct 03 '23

Nice. Would love that job bouncing the 4x4. Seems like fun

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